![]() I can use these buttons to draw blue, red, green and brown 8-gauge wires.Įach button is customized to execute the following command: I named the new toolbar "My Wires" and included buttons on the toolbar and color-coded each to match the appropriate wire color. This toolbar will be a simple starter set of wires (figure 3), but you can create a much more complex toolbar, with flyouts perhaps, that would include all of the wire gauges and colors that would be appropriate for the design. ![]() ![]() Our example toolbar with a simple set of wires. Selecting the layers beginning with 8AWG as valid wire layers.įigure 3. The next step is to create a custom toolbar that will make it easy for me to choose the wires I need on the fly.įigure 2. In the AutoCAD Electrical configuration tools, I used a wildcard to tell AutoCAD Electrical that any layer that begins with 8AWG is a valid wire layer (figure 2). Once the wires are identified, the software can automatically create several types of wire reports, including from/to lists, as well as automatically assign unique wire numbers to each wire network. Our toolbar will create the appropriate layer if it does not exist yet, make that layer current and then launch AutoCAD Electrical's Insert Wire command.ĪutoCAD Electrical looks for lines drawn on specific layers and defines these lines as wires. This process can take extra time and effort if your design contains many layers or includes many types of wire gauges and colors.Ĭreating a custom toolbar to automate this process can greatly enhance point-to-point design productivity. ![]() By default, you will need to switch to the appropriate wire layer each time a different gauge or color is required. Typically, a point-to-point diagram will contain wires of several different colors and gauges.
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