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Overview of conduit tools

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    Procedures | References

    AutoCAD Electrical provides a set of utilities to help you label, size, and report on conduits. A conduit can be represented by a line or a poly line and by itself does not carry any intelligence. However, you may insert a conduit marker symbol and associate it to a conduit. The conduit marker symbol then carries wire information intelligence pulled from the AutoCAD Electrical drawings.

    The first time (per AutoCAD session) that you insert a conduit marker, instruct AutoCAD Electrical to read the wire information. You can read the wire information from multiple drawings within the project, the current drawing, or read the existing WFRM2ALL table in the scratch database.

    The conduit marker is a block inserted to add intelligence to a line or pline representing a conduit on a layout drawing. There are four blocks, called WWAYT, WWAYB, WWAYL, and WWAYR. The blocks are identical except for the insert point, T=top, B=bottom, L=left, R=right. The program picks which block based on the leader drawn.

    Conduit Marker Intelligence

    C_TAG

    Each marker receives a unique tag number. Use Setup to define the next tag.

    C_SIZE

    Conduit size, that is, 3/4"

    DESC1

    Optional description line 1

    DESC2

    Optional description line 2

    WIREINFO#

    Wire information for each wire included in the conduit. Wire# ; Wire Layer ; Wire Description ; Wire Size

    W_SPARES#

    Spare wires defined. Wire Description ; Count

     

    Procedures:

    Insert conduit markers

    Use the Conduit Marker (Pick) tool

    1. Click Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Markers drop-down ac.menuaro.gif Insert Marker.icon_cmd_ace_condev.png
    2. Type S and press Enter to set up the conduit marker.
    3. Specify the text for the marker tag and the scale for the marker block. Click OK.
    4. Select the line that represents the conduit for the marker on the drawing.
    5. Click points to define the leader and press Enter.
    6. Select the conduit tag and press Enter.
    7. Specify the conduit tag, catalog information, conduit size, description, or included wires in the Insert or Edit Conduit/WirewayLabel dialog box.

      The conduit marker symbol carries wire information intelligence pulled from the AutoCAD Electrical drawings.

    8. Click OK.

    Use the Conduit Marker (From/To List) tool

    1. Click Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Markers drop-down ac.menuaro.gif Insert From List.icon_cmd_ace_confr2.png
    2. Select the line that represents the conduit for the marker on the drawing.
    3. Click points to define the leader and click Enter or the right mouse button.
    4. Select the location codes for the conduit marker and click OK. These build the From/To combination for the Wire Run From/To Report.
    5. Specify the conduit tag, catalog information, conduit size, description, or included wires in the Insert or Edit Conduit/WirewayLabel dialog box.

      The conduit marker symbol carries wire information intelligence pulled from the AutoCAD Electrical drawings.

    6. Click OK.

     

    Edit all conduit marker information

    Once you insert the conduit marker, you may need to supply some additional information for the marker. You can add the information at the time you insert the marker or select Edit Conduit Marker after it is inserted.

    1. Click Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Edit Marker.icon_cmd_ace_editcon.png
    2. Pick the conduit to edit.
    3. Change the conduit tag, catalog information, conduit size, description, or included wires in the Insert or Edit Conduit/Wireway Label dialog box.
    4. Click OK.

     

    References

    Insert or edit conduit/wire way label

    There are three ways to insert a conduit marker depending on where you want to pick the wire information from. You can get the wire information from an actual device on your drawing represented by either a schematic symbol or a panel layout footprint symbol. You may also pull the wire information out of a wire from/to report based on your schematics. Finally, you can extract the information from multiple conduit markers to combine together into a separate conduit marker.

    Conduit Marker (Pick)

    ac.mouse.gif Ribbon: Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Markers drop-down ac.menuaro.gif Insert Marker.icon_cmd_ace_condev.png

    ac.mouse.gif Toolbar: Conduit Markers icon_cmd_ace_condev.png

    ac.mouse.gif Menu: Panel Layout ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker Tools ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker (Pick)

    ac.keyboard.gif Command entry: AECONDUITMARKER

    Select the line that represents the conduit, click to define the leader, and then select layout devices or branching conduit markers and press Enter.

    Conduit Marker (From/To List)

    ac.mouse.gif Ribbon: Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Markers drop-down ac.menuaro.gif Insert From List.icon_cmd_ace_confr2.png

    ac.mouse.gif Toolbar: Conduit Markers icon_cmd_ace_confr2.png

    ac.mouse.gif Menu: Panel Layout ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker Tools ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker (From/To List)

    ac.keyboard.gif Command entry: AECONDUITMARKERLIST

    Select the line that represents the conduit, click to define the leader.

    Edit Conduit Marker

    ac.mouse.gif Ribbon: Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Edit Marker.icon_cmd_ace_editcon.png

    ac.mouse.gif Toolbar: Conduit Markers icon_cmd_ace_editcon.png

    ac.mouse.gif Menu: Panel Layout ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker Tools ac.menuaro.gif Edit Conduit Marker

    ac.keyboard.gif Command entry: AEEDITCONDUITMARKER

    Select an existing conduit marker.

    Conduit Tag

    AutoCAD Electrical selects a default conduit tag which can be overridden at any time. Click Drawing to use a tag used for similar conduits in the active drawing or click Project to use a tag used for similar conduits in the project. See Conduit Marker Setup to define the default format for the conduit tags.

    Size

    The conduit size can be selected from the list of available sizes or entered in the box. To make it a little easier, AutoCAD Electrical can calculate the percentage full for each conduit size available. To do this AutoCAD Electrical needs 2 support files containing wire size information and conduit size information. If there is not a .WW1 file or if the wire sizes are not in the file, the calculations are not made.

    Catalog Area

    Assign catalog information to the conduit that will be extracted into a bill of materials report. You can do a drawing-wide or project-wide listing of similar conduits with their catalog assignments.

    Manufacturer

    Lists the manufacturer number for the component. Enter a value or select one from the Catalog lookup.

    Catalog

    Lists the catalog number for the component. Enter a value or select one from the Catalog lookup.

    Assembly

    Lists the assembly code for the component. The Assembly code is used to link multiple part numbers together.

    Item

    Specifies a unique identifier assigned to each component. The tag value can be manually typed in the edit box.

    Find

    Scans each drawing for the target conduit type and returns a list of what was found. You can make your catalog assignment by selecting from the list.

    Lookup

    Opens the catalog database of the conduit from which you can manually enter or select the Manufacturer or Catalog values. Search the database for a specific catalog item to assign to the selected conduit.

    Previous

    Scans the previous project to find an instance of the selected conduit and returns the conduit values. You can then make your catalog assignment by picking from the dialog box list.

    Drawing

    Lists the part numbers used for similar conduits in the current drawing.

    Project

    Lists the part numbers used for similar conduits in the project. You can search in the active project, another project, or in an external file.

    • Active project: All of the drawings in the current project are scanned and the results are listed in a sub-dialog box. Select from the list to assign your new conduit with a catalog number that is consistent with other similar conduits in the project.
    • Other project: Scans each listed drawing in a previous project for the target component type and returns the catalog information in a sub-dialog box. Make your catalog assignment by picking from the dialog box list.
    • External file: You can pull catalog assignments from a generic ASCII file created by a word processor or output from a spreadsheet or database program. A dialog box displays the contents of the selected text file. Find and highlight the desired entry. AutoCAD Electrical reads the line of text from the file and breaks it into its component parts. They are displayed in the left-hand dialog box list. For each relevant item, highlight it and then pick the appropriate category button in the center column. The highlighted item transfers to the corresponding category (and then to the Insert/Edit dialog box once OK is clicked).

    Multiple Catalog

    Inserts or edits extra catalog part numbers onto the selected conduit. You can add up to ten part numbers to any conduit. These multiple BOM part numbers appear as subassembly part numbers to the main catalog part number in the various BOM and conduit reports.

    Catalog Check

    Displays what the selected item looks like in a Bill of Material template.

    Description

    Optional description lines.

    Wires to include in conduit/wireway

    Define which wires to include in this conduit. Select from the available list in the upper box and add to the included list in the lower box. At any time you can pick from a from/to list by clicking Add Wires from List, or you can add wires from additional devices by clicking Pick Devices.

    Add Wires from List

    Adds wires by picking from a from/to list.

    Pick Devices

    Adds wires from additional devices.

    Spares

    Defines the spares to include in the conduit.

    Sort

    Sorts the list of conduit wires using an alphanumeric sort.

    Report/Print

    Opens the Report Generator dialog box for running a Conduit marker report.

     

    Conduit marker setup

    The conduit marker is a block inserted to add intelligence to a line or pline representing a conduit on a layout drawing. There are four blocks, called WWAYT, WWAYB, WWAYL, and WWAYR. The blocks are identical except for the insert point, T=top, B=bottom, L=left, R=right. The program picks which block based on the leader drawn.

    ac.mouse.gif Ribbon: Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Markers drop-down ac.menuaro.gif Insert Marker.icon_cmd_ace_condev.png

    ac.mouse.gif Toolbar: Conduit Markers icon_cmd_ace_condev.png

    ac.mouse.gif Menu: Panel Layout ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker Tools ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker (Pick)

    ac.keyboard.gif Command entry: AECONDUITMARKER

    Type S and press Enter.

    Conduit tag

    Specifies the marker tag. Each conduit marker receives a unique tag. Enter the text for the next tag. Each successive tag is incremented from the previous tag.

    Scale

    Defines the scale to insert the conduit marker block.

     

    Add spare wires

    Defines the spare wires to include in your conduit.

    ac.mouse.gif Ribbon: Panel tab ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Tools panel ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Markers drop-down ac.menuaro.gif Insert Marker.icon_cmd_ace_condev.png

    ac.mouse.gif Toolbar: Conduit Markers icon_cmd_ace_condev.png

    ac.mouse.gif Menu: Panel Layout ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker Tools ac.menuaro.gif Conduit Marker (Pick)

    ac.keyboard.gif Command entry: AECONDUITMARKER

    Click the Spares button on the Insert/Edit Conduit/Wireway Label dialog box.

    Select wires from

    Lists the spare wires that can be added to the conduit. The list is built from the .WDW support file.

    Type it

    If the wire type is not listed, type your spare wire description in the edit box.

    Wires to Add

    Lists the wires that to add to the conduit.

    Count

    Specifies the number of wires to add to the conduit. Adjust your quantity by typing the number or by selecting the <or > buttons.

    Update Quantity

    If you type the quantity, select this button to see the new quantity in the list.

     

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