AutoCAD Electrical automatically manages the wire number and component layers you set up in the drawing settings. No matter which layer is active, wires always go to a wire layer and components go to component layers.
AutoCAD Electrical provides tools for managing and renaming panel and schematic layers. You can use your own layer naming convention with AutoCAD Electrical, as well as change the layer naming used on an existing AutoCAD Electrical drawing using the tools provided.
The Rename Schematic Layers and Rename Panel Layers tools make it easy to rename layers one by one, or multiple layers at once by using the Find/Replace method. The advantage to using the AutoCAD Electrical layer rename is that in addition to renaming the layer, AutoCAD Electrical also updates the AutoCAD Electrical layer assignment information carried on the WD_M and WD_PNLM blocks on the drawing. For example, if DEMO-WIRES is currently assigned as an AutoCAD Electrical wire layer, and you rename it using this utility, the new layer name is substituted for DEMO-WIRES in the AutoCAD Electrical wire layer name list.