AutoCAD Electrical Symbol Builder

the agenda for today is to create a schematic symbol from scratch create a schematic symbol from an existing autocad block and a footprint symbol so before i dive into the symbol builder itself first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to insert a couple of symbols and talk about tables in the parts database you should think about the parts database before you even create a new schematic symbol and what i mean by that is like as an example i'm going to do an example of creating a simple single pole circuit breaker so i'll insert one and i'll just throw it out in the middle of nowhere here and what i want you to pay attention to is under the catalog data here when i hit the lookup button when i hit the lookup button it goes to a category called cb i'm inserting a circuit breaker i only wanted to look for circuit breaker catalog numbers this category is an attribute in the symbol when you create it and we call it the family code and that's why it's so important that you know what your family code is going to be before you even start your first line of a symbol let's say because when you use it and you want to attach catalog numbers you want to make sure that you go to the right category when you hit that lookup button i'm also going to show you how you can add your own tables to the parts database that comes out of the box because it doesn't have tables in there let's say for an hmi or a safety relay or just different types of symbols that are you know cb for circuit breaker cr for control relay pb for push button you're going to create some of your own tables we encourage that that's not a problem but you want to have the category which is ultimately a table in either the access database that you're using or the sql the category is actually a table in the database and that table is tied to the family code attribute in the symbol when you create those so it's no different than if i go and insert this time a push button i insert a push button i hit that look up button and the catalog browse me browser takes me in this case to the pb category as it should that's another table in the database which belongs to the family code attribute when you create the symbol itself so you want to keep that in mind so i'm gonna i'm gonna create a symbol from scratch and i'm also gonna create one i've got some drive symbols out here that i created many moons ago in regular autocad and that's why we always tell you don't throw anything out that you currently have in autocad you can reuse it all day long and as you can see here in this drive symbol there's a lot of graphics there it took me some time to create you know hopefully you can download it from the manufacturer's website but if you can't sometimes you got to create them your own as you know so the graphics i didn't throw away because that took me the longest to create when i created the block itself in regular autocad i'm going to keep that and ultimately apply the autocad electrical attributes that it needs to see so at first i'm just going to keep it simple i'm going to show you a couple examples here with a circuit breaker and a power supply as well so on the schematic tab i'm going to go to the symbol builder and we use the symbol builder obviously to create intelligent autocad electrical blocks you will find content out there whether it's in the ascent book if anybody took class or just other material that you find out there that will tell you you don't have to use the symbol builder to create your autocad electrical symbols that is correct but i would discount it as well especially when you first start now and there's two reasons main reason is when you use the symbol builder to create your autocad electrical blocks intelligent blocks it's going to name the symbol for you because as you all know there is a strict symbol naming convention that you need to follow to get the full value out of your symbols when you use the symbol builder it names it correctly for you you don't have to worry about knowing what the symbol naming convention is any other reason too that you want to use the symbol builder and you're talking to somebody right now unfortunately that's been using autocad for about 30 years i use the symbol builder myself inside of autocad electrical to create my intelligent blocks for the simple fact that it's a good tool it's a nice tool to use it's quick it's efficient it's just an easy way to create the autocad electrical blocks and that's why i use it all the time inside of autocad electrical yeah i could use you know the regular autocad block or right block command i know the symbol naming convention i know the attributes i need i still use the symbol builder just because it's a good tool to use to create your symbols now first thing we do you know select your objects just like you normally would do when you create a block and i'm going to wrap a window around the graphics of this breaker in the graphics for your symbol itself you're going to use autocad lines arcs circles all the graphics polylines whatever you want to build into a symbol you know you're going to resort back to your autocad knowledge as far as creating the graphics are concerned and it's very important that all your graphics are on layer zero when you create the symbol when you go to insert it autocad electrical automatically puts it on the sim layer and it doesn't matter what your current layer is so i'm going to hit enter after i select my objects and i'm going to pick an insertion point notice my snap is on i highly highly highly recommended turn your snap on when you're creating symbols now over here is where it can get a little bit confusing it has this attribute template library path people confuse this with that's where the symbols automatically going to get stored absolutely incorrect all this library path is used for is the template files used to insert attributes in the next dialog box i'm going to insert the proper attributes that i need for the symbol when i pick the attributes from a list you're actually inserting a template dwg file all those template dwg files are in this path itself and typically you don't have to worry about it because it's going to default to whatever your project property library is set up for automatically but that's what that path is used for it's not where ultimately i'm going to store this custom symbol then we have some symbol categories nice part is because i've used competitive packages there's not that many to choose from sometimes you'll you know be using the software and it's got like 30 different types of symbols i like electrical because it narrows it down and as you can see here from the choices you have both horizontal and vertical parent child that's on the schematic side terminals are their own category both horizontal and vertical again schematic side and then you have three different types of footprint symbols or panel symbols so this is important that you know i'm going to create a parent symbol here but obviously if i wanted to create a child symbol or terminal symbol i want to make sure i choose that category otherwise it's not going to work correctly and then here's the confusing part under type as you can see it has this list circuit breakers control relays fuses power supplies so on and so forth this appears to be you know what your tag might be or the family code itself and when you can choose from this list a lot of times you use the default for the family code and the tag but when you look at this list like i'm going to create a drive symbol next there is no category for drive symbols so i would choose generic now what these categories ultimately control is the list of attributes that it thinks that you're going to need for that category and you're going to see here in a minute here i'm going to pick cb and it'll give me a list of of attributes to use on a circuit breaker symbol then i'll choose cr then i'll choose pw just to show you how it can vary as far as the list of attributes that you have to choose from when you choose generic it will give you every single attribute available so in this case i'm going to pick circuit breaker and i'll pick okay and when you use the symbol builder it immediately takes you into the standard autocad block editor environment as you can see so if i look at my list of attributes over here you know by the way you don't need this block authoring palette on that's for creating dynamic blocks in autocad you don't have to shut it off i just do because i find it to be a little bit of a nuisance so here's a list of attributes i got tag manufacturer notice it's only listing two lines of description here i got a next ref i got a contact i'm gonna close this and this time i'm going to go right back into the symbol builder just to show you the differences between those templates pick a point here now let's say i was creating a relay so i'd pick relay select okay now look at the list of attributes it gives me three lines of description attributes to choose from it breaks out normally open and normally closed cross referencing because it knows that you know a relay is going to have contacts and then it takes me to the wire connection and the dashlink line but these are specific attributes that it considers for a control relay now let's say i was creating creating a power supply once again i select my graphics pick a base point and then this time i'm going to choose power supply look at these attributes notice they're different notice there is no cross-reference attribute it just assumes that you're not going to create a parent-child relationship with about power supply it's just going to be the parent symbol and you have some optional attributes that are included here as well like the if you get into peer-to-peer or you want to pull out a pin list whatever here's some optional attributes i can use on a power supply now let's say you did want to create a parent-child relationship with a power supply which you can if that's the case i'm still going to create a power supply but this time just to show you i'm going to leave it on generic and i'll pick okay when you leave it on generic it gives you every attribute imaginable that you can use [Music] for a symbol inside of autocad electrical as you can see now let's get back to the tables i talked about at the very beginning in the parts database if i choose generic notice the tag doesn't default to anything the family code doesn't default to anything the family code is that table in a parts database so in this case i know i have a table for power supplies i would simply type in pw right here as the default so when i insert the symbol and i hit that lookup button it's going to go to the pw category now a lot of times you you know the tag especially with stuff out of the box the tag default will match the family code but it doesn't have to so in this case i would type in pws let's say so when i insert the symbol the tag is going to default to pws but when i hit the lookup button it's going to go to the category called pw so if you can keep the family code in the tag name the same great but they don't have to be and as far as choosing the right table or creating your own is concerned because like i said when you create a new symbol especially one that's different meaning it's not a cb a cr a pb an ls you know you might have to create your own table someday that's perfectly fine i'm going to show you where to do that right now i've created several new tables in my database so having said that let me close the block editor again if you ever want to get a list of your tables that are in the parts database because you can't rely on that list that is in the you know symbol builder right here this is you know they use it as a default when you pick one of these categories but ultimately remember this list is about you know the list of attributes that will be available when you create the symbol now if you want to get a complete list of all the tables that are there you can go to your catalog browser and it will give you a complete list of every table that comes out of the box here's cc that i created probably should have put a description next to it i didn't same with bp same with do here's drives you don't see drives when you go to the symbol builder now when you create your own tables highly recommend that you keep them at two characters if you don't it just gets a lot more complicated to create your own tables you go to your project tab up top and on the other tools panel we have the add table catalog database i'll choose the parts database that i'm using and then here's where i can add my own custom tables all day long unfortunately it doesn't give you a description you know if i highlight one of these i can't see what it's actually doing but i could go back to the catalog browser and get the description but you're going to see things in here you know that just aren't in whatever normally comes out of the box here's hm that i created for an hmi symbol that i needed to create i created a new table any part number that's going to go that belongs to an hmi is going to go to the hm table in the parts database when i add it this is ultimately the family code when you create the symbol so if you do create your own tables which again is fine just plug in a two character table name right here and also give it a description as to what it is because when you look at it in the catalog browser as you can see here it does have a description next to it and if i look at uh here's the hm and i put a description of hmi right next to it as you can see so when you do plug in a description it doesn't show up in the you know when you add a table but it will show up in a catalog browser so now i'm going to actually create a circuit breaker symbol i'll go back to my symbol builder i'll select objects pick a base point it's going to be a horizontal parent and i do have the cb category right here or type and i'll pick ok now notice the family code in this case when i chose generic both these family code and the tag were blank when i choose cb it automatically plugs it in to the family code and the tag but remember i can change the tag to be something different if i wanted it to be i'm going to leave it the same in this case so now i'll start inserting attributes so i'll pick insert attribute right here and this is again remember i talked about those templates right this is actually a template that's stored in that library path in the first dialog box in the symbol builder that's how it knows what to grab so i'll just drop this in right here and then i'll insert manufacturer all the way through family code if anybody's ever created a symbol before you're going to know why those texts are so tiny if you haven't it's because these default to invisible we need these attributes as part of the symbol but we don't need them to show up on our screen that's why they're very tiny and i don't care where i put them now just like any other attribute you can change text sizes justifications fonts anything like that like i do have i know of one customer of mine that actually displays the catalog number right on the schematic drawing so what they do with that cat attribute i'm going to go to my properties and i constantly have my properties on when i'm creating symbols what this customer does is obviously come in here they change the text size to an eighth inch like all the other text and then if they scroll down further in their properties where it says invisible they would pick no because they want it to show up so you can manipulate these attributes any way you want after you insert them now here's an example two notice it only lists three two lines of descriptions once you get to know your attributes actually i'm going to insert the installation and location first and i'll drop these down right above the tag and then here it lists description one and description two if you're using autocad electrical you know that typically you get three lines of description in a symbol well just because that isn't listed there doesn't mean that i can't add it as well so all i have to do here is go to my regular autocad copy command and i'll copy one of these let's say from the insertion point here to the insertion point here and then i'll just change this to desc 3 now to give me up to three lines of descriptions that i can use and that's because i know the attributes from experience you're not going to know them till you've created enough of these but essentially even if you don't pick the generic category and you know the attribute that you want to use you can plug it in just like any other attribute you would in an autocad block now i've got an xref i've got a contact i'll just insert both of those as well let's say the xref i'm going to place down here and the contacts and invisible one as well now i have a rating attribute so i'm going to insert one rating attribute and i'm going to drop it down right here so as you know when you insert a symbol in autocad electrical you got the tag you got three lines of description you got installation you got location you got rating that's all the attributes that are just placed out and i have to use their tags can't just make up my own it's not going to work that way and this is why we use the symbol builder to create your symbols it gives me a list of the attributes that i need i don't have to think about anything now on the wire connection i've got two here i'll insert one on the left side and this is why i use snap as well all my connection points are going directly to snap this makes life a lot easier when you insert the symbol or copy it or move it for real once the symbol is created now the terminal number pin number attribute as you can see it's pretty close to where a wire is going to be so i'm just going to go to my regular autocad move command and i'm going to move both of these down just a 16th of an inch and then notice that the width factor for the rating is 0.7 because i'm going to punch in like 60 amp or 1 amp whatever it is and that should still give me enough space for the pin number attributes now those terminals that i just placed out if you have a symbol like a breaker like a relay like a push button where you can use that one symbol with many different manufacturers and catalog numbers you're going to leave the terminal number slash pin numbers blank when you create the symbol and you'll let the catalog number drive what those terminal numbers are because each manufacturer each catalog number for the same push button those terminal numbers as you know can be different so you let the catalog number drive it that way you don't have to create a separate symbol for every single catalog number you have now we got the linked lines i'm going to i'm not going to insert the dash link line attribute so at this point i could say i'm done and again if you have to manipulate any of these attributes text sizes location or justifications with factors moving it around you can use all your autocad tools to do that so let's say i'm done i'm going to make sure i'm on the symbol builder tab up top here and i'll pick done now remember i talked about the very initial dialog box right we had that list of types to choose from that is not a list of all the tables here's a list of all the tables that i have in my parts database now it defaulted to cb which is what i want but if i were to if i were to choose generic this is where you want to change that you want to change it you know back here you want to plug the family code in that you want which is this list of tables in the parts database so if you choose generic and you fill that family code in remember whatever you fill in here you want to make sure that you already have the table in the parts database so then you can just pick from it from it when you choose that generic category so we get back to symbol naming convention here's the key right here it just name the symbol for me properly h is for horizontal cb is the family code one means it's apparent that extra one means i might have an extra contact on there so it names the symbol for me that's why i use the symbol builder i don't have to worry about a thing now you can because a lot of people don't like the fact that it has a symbol naming convention you can give it your own spin so for the unique identifier i'll just call this custom circuit breaker as soon as i hit my tab key or put my cursor in another box it updates the symbol name and the png file it's going to create a png file that i can use to add to my icon menu so as far as the symbol name don't touch anything before and including that underscore if you don't follow symbol naming convention inside of autocad electrical you will not get the full power of the symbol which basically means it's not going to work the way you want it to i've had some people even try to use dashes instead of underscores as soon as they do something goes wrong with the symbol so it's a must that you follow that symbol naming convention let it name it for you give it your own spin on it in the unique identifier just make sure you leave that underscore there gotta have that as the separator between the autocad electrical symbol name and then your spin on and then you just have to tell it where you want it to go this defaults to a certain folder that can be changed in your environment file so it automatically defaults to your own custom library folder which is typically stored up on a shared network drive i'm going to store this in this folder i have here and i'll pick ok and then i'll do the same thing with the png file i pick ok do i want to insert yes i do because i always like to test my symbols i'll drop it in tag came in is cb because that's what the tag attribute was that's what the default was i hit the lookup button went to the cb category because my family code attribute is cb in the symbol if i pick a catalog number notice that it automatically fills in the rating because this particular eaton catalog number is rated for 15 amps so it's driving the rating catalog number is notice i have three lines of descriptions up here not two remember i added that third attribute all on my own just going to type something in here just to see where my text ends up i'll throw a location code on here again just to see where my text ends up and lo and in installation pin numbers the catalog number didn't have any predefined pin numbers so i could fill them in terminal numbers if you will and then the last big test here would be to drive or draw a wire through it so i know that my connection points work that's how we create using the symbol in autocad electrical block intelligent symbol and that was from scratch now i'll pick on the drives over here i created this symbol right here and i'm going to do it again just to show you you can see that it truly is an intelligent autocad electrical symbol i started with this this was the generic the name of the symbols called acad intramat drive it was created in straight up autocad and this was created for my panel so i'm going to create a schematic symbol and a footprint symbol out of this autocad block now to save some time i took the block exploded it which is what you would do when you're using an existing autocad block or one that you downloaded from the manufacturer's website so to save some time i took it and i massaged it a little bit as far as getting rid of some of the detail because this is what i'm going to use in my schematic it's already created here i'm going to show you how i created it here so i'm going to go back to my symbol builder select objects insertion point it's going to be a horizontal parent but notice i don't have the category i could pick from for drives so i'm going to leave it on generic and i'll pick okay takes me right back into the block editor environment like i just was and notice the family code is blank and the tag is blank i'm going to make the family code default to dr but i'm going to make the tag drv and then i'll insert these attributes just like i did on the simple breaker i'll insert this one right about in the middle excuse me i'll take these manufacturer catalog family code just like before let's say insert them here got three lines of description i'll just insert these out to the left a little bit and i'm going to change these justifications to left justified right now they're set to center so i'm just going to go to my properties just like you normally would change it to left justify and then i'll go installation location i'll put these above the tag very similar to what i just did with the breaker and maybe i want to create a child relationship out of this so i'll include my cross reference attribute to save some time i'm not going to put any of these optional ones in here i am going to put a rating in here and i'll just drop this one down right about here let's say now i have to insert my connection points and obviously i have a lot more than two i'm not going to do all of these obviously but it's not uncommon where you're going to have a lot of connection points to put down on a symbol like this so i'll start with the left none i'll go insert wire connection since i'm using snap i'm going to snap right to the left side of each one of these put all three of them down at the same time and then i'm going to change the justification to middle left and then i'm going to move these from the insertion point just to the left side of the terminal now in this case this isn't the type of symbol that i'm going to share between manufacturers this is an inter intermec drive that i can only use for this catalog number so essentially i can pre-define what those terminal numbers are so i'm going to make this one a1 a2 and a3 now i'm just going to put these connection points over here and then i'll be done so i'll go back here this time i'm going to choose write and i'll insert this one here again look how easy it is with my snap on it goes right to the outside of the circle that represents the terminal and then i'm going to change these justifications to middle right and then i'll move these regular autocad move from the insertion point just to the right or the left side over there and i'm gonna label these one through six so this will be terminal number one two three four five six so at this point i'm done these are all the attributes that i want to use not going to use any of the optional ones got a rating in there so at this point once again i'm going to pick done now here's the generic right right now the symbol name is hdv1 anytime you choose generic it's going to give you the dv well i want a drive category there it is right there pick it notice that it immediately changed my symbol name so that's why when you choose generic you want to know ahead of time remember i plugged in over here i can't see it anymore but i plugged in for the family code dr and made the tag drv now i want to make sure when i get back to this dialog box that i choose the dr from my list of tables so that's why i said in the beginning if you need a new table create it before you go into the symbol builder that way it'll be on your list and then i can just call this whatever i want and then once again i'm going to save it to here for both the png or the dwg and the png itself sure well actually let me just put a little underscore one after the fact there we go i'll say yes so i can insert this symbol just put it right now let's put it down here and give it a different tag name now i'm going to hit the lookup button and notice that it went to the dr category if i want a ninja mat catalog number i can assign it an intramat catalog number now let's tell me i already have a pin list so i'm going to say assign it leave the existing put the rating in there for me i could fill in descriptions just like i did before installation location whatever and then here's my new symbol that was created directly from an existing autocad block so i started with this it was a block i exploded it got rid of some of the detail so i used the same block that goes in my panel for a schematic drawing i know we're running out of time here so let me give you an example of the footprint symbol that i would create for this setup for this drive right now this is the generic autocad block it's the one that goes in the panel it's the full scale one to one so on and so forth straight from autocad i'm going to explode it so now everything's generic as you can see you got regular text got some graphics so now i want to create a footprint symbol out of this i'm going to go to my panel tab notice that the symbol builder is here as well it's the same thing usually when you create a footprint symbol you normally be in a panel drawing i'm not so i just still picked it from the panel tab i'll select objects pick a base point remember this is my footprint symbol so i'm going to choose the midpoint of my vertical line on the left as the insertion point when i insert it into my panel and this is going to be a panel footprint notice when you go to panel footprint there is no more types it's only generic which makes it nice and the thing with footprint symbols is that you only need one attribute that's it and that's your tag attribute so i'll pick insert attribute i'll drop it down let's say right here and the reason why i don't have to fill in the rest of these attributes is because with the footprint category automatically adds these as x data x data is invisible data so when i go to insert this footprint symbol in the insert edit component dialog box appears i'm going to still see catalog manufacturer installation location tag because it's all assigned via x data the only reason why you would need to insert any of these other attributes would be if you wanted let's say the descriptions to show up in the footprint symbol the ones that you just placed down on the schematic or you wanted the installation or location to show up here it's it's basically a visual thing but all the data will be there from an attribute standpoint it's just supplied by x data so i'll go back to symbol builder and i'll say i'm done nice thing about footprint symbols there is no naming convention you can name it anything you want so having said that and it doesn't matter what's in the unique identifier it doesn't matter what's down here i'm going to call this fp internet instrument drive dash because i've got a couple other ones i don't need an icon image a png because when you insert footprint symbols you don't insert them via the icon menu remember you insert them via the catalog number now it says it found 15 errors you can discount that it's just because i didn't insert the rest of these attributes so at this point once again i'm just going to point it to where i want to save it and pick okay i'm going to say no here so now i've got a new footprint symbol that needs to go into my panel now before i can go and insert that footprint symbol remember you have to modify the footprint database so right now i just created a schematic symbol i just created a footprint symbol now i need to tie them together i still need to add a catalog number or i could use an existing one but i'm going to do it from scratch i need to add a catalog number and then i need to link the catalog number to the footprint symbol itself so as an example back here in my catalog browser i'll go into edit mode and i'll copy this row and i'll paste it in to my next available and i'll just change the catalog number and leave everything else i'll just put an underscore one at the end of this accept it so now i have this particular catalog number let me copy that to the clipboard real quick here whoa so i don't forget the name so now i have a catalog number and a parts database so i got my schematic symbol footprint symbol catalog number now i need to link the two of them together and i do that through the footprint database editor so i'll say edit existing table i'll choose in dramat and we have a separate video on just footprint symbols and linking them together i'm going kind of fast here i know we have a separate just a separate webinar and just that in case you're weak or wanted you know in that category let's say so i'll say add new catalog number and then i link it to the footprint symbol which in this case i'm storing in this particular folder and the file name one i just created you can see today's date right there so now i'm linking the catalog number to the block the footprint symbol that i just created so now if i want to insert that footprint symbol i'll go to my schematic list do all and sort the list make sure it's sorted by the tag name i'll mark all the existing symbols that have already been inserted and even hide them so here's the one that i just inserted did i put a catalog number i did hold on a minute let me close this let me go back to the schematic and let me give it the new catalog number which is this one so now when i go back to my schematic list to insert my footprint symbols let me reload this now it's got the right catalog number on there make sure it rotates at zero degrees now when i pick insert it's going to know what footprint symbol to use because i just linked the catalog number to the footprint symbol and like i said remember i didn't include any of these attributes in the footprint block itself when i created it but they're all still there it's getting all the information carrying it over from whatever i filled in on the schematic so i didn't insert the attributes in the symbol but it automatically applies them through x data if i didn't link the footprint symbol that i created to the block with the footprint database it would have no idea what to insert there it would have been stuck i would have had to go to choice b you know when you go to the icon menu to insert footprint symbols but as far as creating them all you need remember is that one tag attribute so i know it went a little bit longer than normal but that's how we can use the symbol builder to create schematic and footprint symbols on the schematic side just remember keep keep in mind a table in the parts database create the table if one doesn't exist already if one exists make sure you choose the correct table when you're creating the symbol and it's the table attribute is the family code in the symbol okay i'll leave it at that see how julie's doing on questions hey we got we have a couple um the first one is from kevin and he says i need contacts for a control switch a relay a selector switch and an aux switch should i create four separate contacts with different family codes for each or can i create one contact and include the four family codes um we need to create contacts well usually what you do contacts would typically be a child symbol so when you create the child symbol you would give it the same tag or the same family code as whatever the um whatever the parent symbol is now keep in mind also child symbols usually don't use the family code attribute because you don't include catalog numbers in a child symbol so if it's if you wanted to create parent symbols for each one of these you know the family code remember is a table in the parts database if it is going to be a parent symbol if a contact is going to be a parent symbol then you will need the family code and you know it's just a matter of it's up to you whether you want to give them different ones or the same remember the family code is ultimately a table in the parts database for so for each one of those symbols when you insert it and you hit the catalog lookup you know are you looking for push button contacts are you looking for relay contacts you got to make sure you give it the right family code so in this case they would be four separate ones if you wanted to insert those as parent symbols so if you wanted the contact to go to the pv category because it's if it's a push button contact that would be the family code pb same with cr whatever else you had there okay um the next one is from tyler he is asking can the symbols we create such as the circuit breaker one we made up earlier can we get that to show up in the icon menu under the schematic tab well of course okay that's a separate webinar but let me let me just show you real quick not a problem at all on your schematic tab and this is nice because it is quick and easy if you want your own custom symbols glad you asked that because i have a few down here as you can see i've got this custom one where i have some solenoids and proc switches for pneumatic drawings i've got this hagerman symbols which there's the drive that i just created or something similar point being yes you can add anything to the icon menu and you do that through this icon menu wizard so i would take that breaker that i just created make sure that i choose the right icon menu itself so let's say i want to put that breaker that i just created under this custom menu right here whoop that's not a custom menu i'll put it under hagerman symbols so i would go up to add and i would say component name i'll say custom breaker image file remember it created it for me there it is right there right and then what is the block and that's going to be the custom breaker so here's the image file that it's going to use in the menu and then when you click on the image file it's going to know to use this particular block so i pick okay there it is now when i go back to my icon menu let me go back to a schematic drawing and i go to hagerman symbols in this case there's my breaker and i can insert it into my drawing so nice thing is pretty pretty straightforward process okay next can we combine iec and ansi standards graphics into a single symbol you can build anything you want in a symbol as far as graphics i mean look at the difference between the drive and the breaker graphics remember you're creating a custom symbol whatever graphics you decide to put in there is completely up to you obviously you need the attributes you need the connection point attributes but graphically doesn't matter to us what you include in that symbol okay and a couple questions have come in about where can i access other webinars if you go to our website hagerman.com you will see events pull down and from there you'll see all the live ones as well as any of the recorded ones and then you can search on whatever topic you're looking for if there are particular ones that you're looking for um please feel free to email ashley or your account manager and we will make sure to get you a link to those specific ones that you're looking for yeah i'm looking at one question down here we're going to cover the panel blocks that show wired term data that was the previous webinar that we did as well so you will be able to find that up on our website absolutely that's for george i think we're out of questions okay obviously if you do have more questions send them along and we'll get back to you ashley okay well thank you guys for the thanks greg for the presentation and julia for helping with questions thank you all for listening and participating um a reminder that you will will receive a follow-up email tomorrow with the recording of today's presentation and also as we close down a short survey will pop up it's just four questions and we thank you for attending and have a great day everybody

Channel: Hagerman & Company, Inc.

Views: 13,058

Keywords: AutoCAD Electrical, Symbol Builder

Id: VivLNwOb510

Length: 62min 14sec (3734 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2020