You can use templates to create a panel layout drawing or to add attributes to footprints automatically during insertion time. You can Wblock assemblies of panel components out to disk for insertion later.

Panel layout template drawings

You can set up an AutoCAD template drawing for panel layout drawings with the WD_PNLM block pre-inserted and set up with your own default settings. You can also set up client-specific template drawings and reference the appropriate one when starting a new AutoCAD Electrical panel drawing.

Attribute template drawings

You can set up to have visible attributes added to any footprint automatically at footprint insertion time. Using non-intelligent footprint representations can insert with smart AutoCAD Electrical attributes added automatically, on the fly.

There are five attribute template drawings:
wd_ptag_addattr_comp.dwg	component footprints
wd_ptag_addattr_trm.dwg	terminal footprints
wd_ptag_addattr_wtrm.dwg	terminal with wire no. as terminal number
wd_ptag_addattr_itemballoon.dwg	balloons
Wd_ptag_addattr_pnltermstrip.dwg	terminal footprints (when inserted by Level/Sequencing tools)

If the appropriate attribute template exists, the following steps are performed when a panel footprint is inserted.

Find the center of the footprint by collecting and averaging the objects that make up the footprint.
Insert the attribute template at the calculated center of the footprint.
Make sure there are no duplicate attributes. If duplicate attributes are found, the attribute from the footprint is kept.
Reblock the added attributes with the inserted footprint.
Add the schematic data to the footprint. If the target attribute exists, the data is added as attribute data. If the target attribute does not exist, the data is added as invisible Xdata.

Panel assembly

You can Wblock assemblies of panel components out to disk for insertion later. Use the Insert Panel Assembly utility instead of the AutoCAD Insert/Explode command when to insert a WBlocked group of panel component footprints with balloons or nameplates. Since AutoCAD Electrical establishes invisible Xdata pointers when they are tied to a footprint, they are properly updated when inserted using this utility. Use the Copy Assembly utility to copy panel assemblies on the active drawing.

Procedures

Insert panel footprint assemblies

Inserts a WBlocked panel footprint assembly.

Use the Insert Panel Assembly utility instead of the AutoCAD Insert/Explode command to insert a group of panel component footprints with balloons or nameplates. The program establishes invisible Xdata pointers tied to a footprint, and updates them in the Insert Panel Assembly operation.

Click Panel tabInsert Component Footprints panelPanel Assembly.
Specify whether to add the intelligence needed for each block to be treated as an AutoCAD Electrical footprint.
Click OK.
In the Wblocked Assembly to Insert dialog box, select the assembly and click Open.
Specify the insertion point for the block.
Enter a rotation angle or press Enter to use the default.
Your block is inserted onto the drawing at your picked point.

Copy panel footprint assemblies

Copies one or more selected panel footprints.

The Copy Assembly utility copies a group of panel component footprints, balloons, and nameplates. You select the balloons or nameplates to copy with the footprints. The program establishes invisible Xdata pointers tied to a footprint and updates them in the operation.

Click Panel tabEdit Footprints panelCopy Assembly.
Select the panel components to copy and right-click.
Enter a base point or displacement value.
Specify the second point and right-click.

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