Panel tab - Insert Component Footprints panel

 

Command

Description

Insert Footprint (Icon Menu)

AEFOOTPRINT

Inserts panel footprint selected from on-screen icon menu. This icon menu can be modified, expanded, or replaced with your own custom menu. You can change the default icon menu using the Project Properties dialog box. Use the Icon Menu Wizard to easily modify the menu.

Insert Footprint (Schematic List)

AEFOOTPRINTSCH

Inserts and annotates panel footprint by referencing the project's schematic component list. This report provides error checking between the schematics and the panel layout drawings. The program looks at the selected components, both schematic and panel, to find a match in the project. For each schematic component selected, the routine tries to find a matching panel component based on tag, location, and installation information. If a match is found, then it further compares catalog information looking for any discrepancies. The program looks at each selected panel component looking for a matching schematic component in the same way.

Insert Footprint (Manual)

AEFOOTPRINTMAN

Inserts panel footprint using a generic shape or by converting an existing non intelligent AutoCAD block.

Insert Footprint (Manufacturer Menu)

AEFOOTPRINTMFG

Inserts and annotates panel footprint using manufacturer-specific icon menu. This can save a lot of time if you frequently use the same vendor and panel components. You can even apply this method to create client-specific menus making it easier to use the vendor or components that each client prefers.

User Defined List

AEFOOTPRINTCAT

Inserts and annotates panel footprint from user-defined list of components with catalog assignments. The data displayed in this pick list is stored in a database in generic Microsoft Access format. The file name is wd_picklist.mdb and can be edited with Access or from Add/Edit/Delete along the bottom of the pick list's dialog box. The AutoCAD Electrical toolset normal search path sequence is used to locate this file.

Insert Footprint (Equipment List)

AEFOOTPRINTEQ

Inserts and annotates panel footprint from user-defined list of equipment.

Insert Balloon

AEBALLOON

Inserts item number balloon.

Wire Annotation of Panel Footprint

AEWIREANNOTATION

Annotates panel footprint symbols with wire connection information extracted from selected schematics.

Insert Panel Assembly

AEPANELASM

Inserts WBlocked panel footprint assembly. Use the Insert Panel Assembly utility instead of the AutoCAD Insert/Explode command when you want to insert a WBlocked group of panel component footprints with balloons or nameplates. Since AutoCAD Electrical toolset establishes invisible Xdata pointers when these are tied to a footprint, they are properly updated when copied using this utility.