Cable Insert/Edit Dialog Box

Find

 Command entry:  AEMULTICABLE

Make your selections and click OK on the Wire From/To Report and the Location Code Selection for From/To Reporting dialog boxes.

Wires from extract

Lists the wires that match the From/To locations (from the Wire From/To Report) and are not part of a cable yet. No cable marker was inserted on this wire. Use Add All, Add, Remove All, and Remove to define which wires are part of the cable. Sort the lists to make it easier to find the wires. Click Change Format to define which fields of information to show in the list to facilitate finding the wires to include in your cable.

Cables

Lists any existing cables and the wires that belong to each cable. If there are no existing cables, then the only item in Cables is "newCBL1." Select New anytime you want to define a new cable. Otherwise, to edit a cable, select its tag from this list.

Cable Tag

There are a few ways to define the tag for the cable. If there is an existing tag, it appears in the edit box. If not, you can type a tag in the edit box. Make sure that you select Fixed if you want AutoCAD Electrical toolset to mark this tag so it is no updated on a retag.

Cable End Locations	Uses the location codes of the connecting components.
Tags: Used so far	Lists any cable tags already assigned. Select a tag from the list to copy, or to increment for this new cable.
External List File	Assigns a tag from an external list file.

Description

Up to three lines of description attribute text can be entered. Use List Drawing and List Project to pick similar descriptions to edit. Default opens an ASCII text file from which you can quickly pick standard descriptions.

Installation Code

Assign short installation codes to components like "PNL" and "FIELD" so you can take full advantage of the AutoCAD Electrical toolset ability to create location-specific BOM and component lists later.

Location Code

Assign short location codes to components like "PNL" and "FIELD." You can take full advantage of the AutoCAD Electrical toolset ability to extract wire and cable from/to reports, and location-specific BOM reports later. (For example, BOM for all field cables, BOM for all PNL cables.)

Catalog Data

MFG and CAT numbers can be manually entered or picked from Catalog lookup. The Assembly code is used to link multiple part numbers together. Use Drawing and Project to quickly list of part numbers used for like components. If the part number you select has a color conductor list associated with it, the available conductor colors and a list of used ones is tracked.

Manufacturer	Lists the manufacturer number for the cable marker. Enter a value or select one from the Catalog lookup.
Catalog	Lists the catalog number for the cable marker. Enter a value or select one from the Catalog lookup.
Assembly	Lists the assembly code for the cable marker. The Assembly code is used to link multiple part numbers together.
Item	Specifies a unique identifier assigned to each cable marker. The tag value can be manually typed in the edit box.
Lookup	Opens the catalog database of the cable from which you can manually enter or select the Manufacturer or Catalog values. Search the database for a specific catalog item to assign to the selected cable.
Previous	Scans the previous project to find an instance of the selected cable and returns the cable values. You can then make your catalog assignment by picking from the dialog box list.
Drawing	Lists the part numbers used for similar cables in the current drawing.
Project	Lists the part numbers used for similar cables in the project. You can search in the active project, another project, or in an external file. Active project: All the drawings in the current project are scanned and the results are listed in a subdialog box. Select from the list to assign your new cable with a catalog number that is consistent with other similar cables in the project. Other project: Scans each listed drawing in a previous project for the target cable type and returns the catalog information in a subdialog box. Make your catalog assignment by picking from the dialog box list. External file: You can pull catalog assignments from a generic ASCII file created by a word processor or output from a spreadsheet or database program. A dialog box displays the contents of the selected text file. Find and highlight the desired entry. AutoCAD Electrical toolset reads the line of text from the file and breaks it into its component parts. They are displayed in the left-hand dialog box list. For each relevant item, highlight it and then pick the appropriate category button in the center column. The highlighted item is transferred to the corresponding category (and then to the Insert/Edit dialog box once OK is clicked).
Multiple Catalog	Inserts or edits extra catalog part numbers on to the selected cable. You can add up to ten part numbers to any cable. These multiple BOM part numbers appear as subassembly part numbers to the main catalog part number in the various BOM and component reports.
Catalog Check	Displays what the selected item looks like in a Bill of Material template.

Wire Colors

Set the conductor color code by manually entering it in the edit box or by picking from a color list. The list displays the wire colors for the cable. If you have already selected catalog information, the colors in the list correspond to the specific cable type. If you have not assigned catalog information, the list is a generic set of colors.

To assign a color to a particular wire, select the wire in the list of wires for the cable. Assign the color by selecting it from the list or type it in the edit box. You can assign a color to all wires at one time by selecting Follow Color List. It assigns a color to each wire of the selected cable even if the wire already has a color assigned to it.

Setup

Opens a dialog box for setting the parent cable marker symbol, the cable marker placement on the wire, and options for hiding children attributes.

Insert/Update Now

Opens any affected drawings and automatically inserts or updates any cable markers.

Insert/Update Later

Saves your changes in a file called 'projnam_cblmrkin.upd' in the same directory path as your project file. The changes are accumulated in this file until you are ready for them. Select Schematic tab Edit Wires/Wire Numbers Multiple Cable Markers Update from the ribbon to insert or update the cable markers that were saved.