Nameplates. Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2011

Change Style

NOTE

If you do not want the attribute height or width to change, do not enter a value definition.

Click Setup to select a text font to apply to the text style used on component attributes.

For each drawing

Enter the name or browse to a command script file to use for each drawing in the current project or to purge all blocks.

Wire Types

Imports wire types defined on another drawing or drawing template. Enter the drawing or template name or browse to it using the browse button. The program reads the specified drawing and extracts all wire type information.

Click Setup to display the Import Wire Types

on page 903 dialog box where you:

■

Select the wire types to import.

■ Define whether to overwrite any Wire Numbering and USERn differences for existing wire types.

■ Define whether to overwrite color and linetype differences for existing wire layers.

Nameplates

Insert nameplates

A nameplate is inserted on to the drawing as a block. It can either be referenced to an existing component footprint block or inserted as a stand-alone nameplate.

When tied to a component footprint, the component footprint is the parent and the nameplate is a child of that parent. AutoCAD Electrical establishes the link automatically by using invisible Xdata pointers on each block. It is different from the schematic parent/child link where a common "TAG1/TAG2" tag ID defines the relationship. AutoCAD Electrical automatically annotates the nameplate with the description data lines and tag value of the parent (if the nameplate block carries these target attribute names).

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Insert a nameplate

Several generic, rectangular nameplates with stretchable boundaries are provided. Three generic nameplates are shown on the panel icon menu nameplates page. Each of them consists of a nested block, which AutoCAD

Electrical explodes and groups upon insertion. The rectangular outline of the resulting nameplate can be stretched using AutoCAD Grips or the Stretch

Window command.

1

Click Panel tab

➤

Insert Component Footprints panel

➤

Insert

Footprints drop-down

➤

Icon Menu.

2

Select Nameplates from the list.

3

Select the desired nameplate from the dialog box.

4

Pick the target footprint and press Enter.

To insert a stand-alone nameplate, simply press Enter without first selecting a component.

5

Pick the insertion point and move your cursor to rotate the nameplate to the desired alignment. Click the left mouse button to end the dynamic insertion.

6

Specify the nameplate tag, description, installation and location codes, and catalog data in the Panel Layout - Nameplate Insert/Edit dialog box.

AutoCAD Electrical immediately annotates the nameplate with a copy of the description data that it finds carried on the footprint (which is the same description that is found on the schematic representation of the component).

7

Click OK to insert the nameplate.

TIP

Use AutoCAD MOVE command to position the nameplate in relation to the parent footprint.

Create your own stretchable nameplates

Use this example to create your own stretchable nameplate symbols.

1

On a new blank drawing, insert the attribute definitions P_TAG1, and

DESC1 through DESC3.

2

Save the drawing as npxxtd3.dwg.

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