Electrical - Point to Point Wiring Basics Part 1

In todays post I will be covering some of the basics of Point to Point wiring. This will include:

  • Adding and working with individuals wires

  • Using scoot to place wires
  • Different wire style selections on the fly

  • Options when wires cross one another

Next week I will look at adding in a splice and also working with the multiple wire bus command.

Let's Take a Look!!!
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Defining and Editing Wire Connection Sequences


You can predefine a wire network's connection sequence. This sequence is taken into account by the AutoCAD Electrical wire and cable from/to reporting and wire connection annotation that is merged from the schematics to panel layout footprint symbols. When creating the wiring information for your panel, you may want to define the wire connection
sequence more precisely to make the panel wiring more organized and more efficient.

You can specify the wire connection sequence in two ways: by hard-wiring the schematic drawing or by defining the wire connection sequence. Today we will take a look at defining the wire connection sequence.

The Define Wire Sequence command embeds the wire connection sequence that you define on the wire network with xdata, so you can use standard ladder style design tools and wire junctions. Utilities are provided to display the wire connection sequence on the screen with temporary graphics.

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3 Phase Motor Auto Connection

Something new in Autocad Electrical 2009. Connecting the 3-phase wiring to the motor symbol is now automatic. When you insert your motor symbol and your 3-phase wiring is already present, place your symbol on or near the wires and the wires are angled and trimmed to meet the motor symbol
Lets take a look:
http://www.screencast.com/t/8gQrCLK41D6
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