To Work With Error Checking Tools

How to use the Electrical Audit tool, clean drawings, and debug project database issues.

Use the Electrical Audit tool

1. Click Reports tabSchematic panelElectrical Audit. Find

   When you run the command, the progress bar describes the progress of the audit process. Once the audit is complete, a text box displays the total number of errors found.

2. Click Details to view the detected problems.
3. (Optional) Click Active Drawing to view the detected problems for the active drawing only.
4. Click any of the tabs highlighted with an error icon.

   They are the areas where problems were found in your project. If no errors are found, the Details button is not enabled.

5. Click an audit record in the dialog box and click Go To (or double-click the audit record).

   The drawing with the exception activates. The function zooms in on the object in the exception and highlights it. Once you browse to an error location an 'x' appears in the audit dialog box.

6. Fix the error using any of the AutoCAD Electrical editing tools.

   After correcting the error, you can select another audit record in the dialog box for correction.

7. Click Close after correcting errors, Save As/Save All if you want to save the report, or Print if you want to print the report.

Note: Run the Drawing audit tool to perform wire-related clean-up functions automatically.

Clean the Drawings

1. Click Project tabTroubleshooting panelClean DWG Utility. Find
2. On the Clean Drawing Utility dialog box, select the drawings to clean: drawings in the active project, a single drawing, or all drawings in a selected folder.
3. (Optional) Click Purge All to run the AutoCAD Purge command and purges all unused items (such as block definitions, dimension styles, layers, linetypes, and text styles).
4. Click OK.
5. If you selected to clean all drawings in the active project, select the drawings to process and click OK.

   New, clean copies of the selected drawings are created and inserted into the drawing.

Use the Debug Tools

If you receive a message that AutoCAD Electrical is having trouble updating your scratch database file of the project, turn on the Debug Trace. It can help track down the problem. Select one of the following commands:

• Click Project tabTroubleshooting panelMDB Command Trace drop-downMDB Command Trace On. Find

  To turn the tracing off,

  Click Project tabTroubleshooting panelMDB Command Trace drop-downMDB Command Trace Off. Find
• Click Project tabTroubleshooting panelCommand Trace drop-downCommand Trace On. Find

  To turn the tracing off,

  Click Project tabTroubleshooting panelCommand Trace drop-downCommand Trace Off. Find