
(Optional) If you are going to add the symbol to the icon menu at a later time using the Icon Menu Wizard, check Icon image.Avoid changing the first four letters of the file name and limit the total length to 32 characters. AutoCAD Electrical toolset provides a default name for the new symbol based on the attribute template selected. Enter the Name and file path or keep the default.dwg file, while Block creates the symbol for this drawing file only.
Click Base Point: Pick point and select the center of the rectangle. The wire connection attribute, X8TERM02, and the terminal pin attribute, TERM02, are inserted. Select the Insert Wire Connection tool and insert the wire connection attributes. Back on the Symbol Builder Attribute Editor, expand the Wire Connection list and select Bottom/None. The wire connection attribute, X2TERM01, and the terminal pin attribute, TERM01, are inserted. Select Others to display the Insert Wire Connections dialog box for selecting other styles. This style contains just the wire connection attributes with no graphics. Expand the Direction/Style list and select Top/None. Expand the Wire Connection section of the Symbol Builder Attribute Editor. In this exercise, wire connection attributes are inserted at the top and bottom of the symbol. When you add a wire connection, you select the style, the direction the wire connects from, and whether to include the optional TERMxx and TERMDESCxx attributes. You can define wire connection points for the library symbol. Select an insertion point for the attribute. It is the default code used as the %F value of the tag format (such as “CR”, “PB”, “LT”) The value is predefined as “CB” since the Circuit breaker template was selected. Change the height to 0.125 and Justify to Center. Select the Properties tool to launch the Insert/Edit Attributes dialog box. If the Symbol Builder Attribute Editor is not visible,Ĭlick Symbol Builder tab Edit panel Palette Visibility Toggle. The WDTYPE attribute value must have a value of “1-” for a one-line symbol or “1-1” for a one-line bus-tap symbol. The other attributes in the Required section are expected on a one-line parent symbol, however the symbol is recognized as a one-line parent symbol without them. The TAG1 and WDTYPE attributes are the only required attributes for a one-line parent symbol. You are not limited to these attributes, and you can include your own user-defined attributes on the AutoCAD Electrical block files. In this part of the exercise, you insert some AutoCAD Electrical attributes from the Symbol Builder Attribute Editor.