Sets panel footprint drawing defaults, such as footprint insertion scale, balloon setup, and layer assignments.
Find
Command entry:
AEPANELCONFIG Panel Configuration saves settings as attribute values on a non-visible block named WD_PNLM. In any panel layout command, if this block is not present in the current drawing a message box displays asking permission to insert the block. The location of the block is not critical.
Item Numbering
Specifies the number/letter to use as the first item number. AutoCAD Electrical toolset manages item number, drawing-wide, or project-wide (over many drawings), so that the same number is always applied to identical components.
Balloon
- Setup
- Opens a dialog box for setting the type of balloon marker (circle, ellipse, polygon, text), marker size, margin, and text gap.
- Apply to all Balloons in Active Drawing
- If this option is checked when you click OK, all existing balloons in the drawing update to match the current balloon settings.
Footprint layers
Opens the Panel Component Layers subdialog box for setting the panel component layers, non-text graphic layers, and nameplate layers. Panel footprint layering works in the same way AutoCAD Electrical toolset schematic layering. When AutoCAD Electrical toolset inserts a footprint, it is modified on the fly to match the layering scheme set up in this dialog box.
Default spacing for multiple inserts
Specifies the x and y distance spacing for multiple footprint inserts.
Footprint insert
Specifies the default insert scale for panel footprint symbols. Also specifies whether to insert the attribute template drawings and the scale to use.
You can set up to have visible attributes added to any footprint automatically at footprint insertion time. Using non-intelligent footprint representations can insert with smart AutoCAD Electrical toolset attributes added automatically, on the fly.
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There are five attribute template drawings: |
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wd_ptag_addattr_comp.dwg |
component footprints |
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wd_ptag_addattr_trm.dwg |
terminal footprints |
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wd_ptag_addattr_wtrm.dwg |
terminal with wire no. as terminal number |
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wd_ptag_addattr_itemballoon.dwg |
balloons |
If the appropriate attribute template exists, the following steps are performed when a panel footprint is inserted.
- Find the center of the footprint by collecting and averaging the objects that make up the footprint.
- Insert the attribute template at the calculated center of the footprint.
- Make sure there are no duplicate attributes. If duplicate attributes are found, the attribute from the footprint is kept.
- Reblock the added attributes with the inserted footprint.
- Add the schematic data to the footprint. If the target attribute exists, the data is added as attribute data. If the target attribute does not exist, the data is added as invisible Xdata.
Uncheck the Enabled check box if you do not want AutoCAD Electrical toolset to search for the attribute template drawing. If enabled, select a scale factor, 1.0 to insert as is, or select to scale to a specific text height.
Panel wire connection report XYZ offset reference
Specifies the x, y, or z-offset value used in the Panel Wire Connection report. If the footprint symbols carry the X?TERMxx attributes, their XYZ wire connection location is included in the report and offset by these values.
Format: Panel wire connection text
Use the Setup button to define the default wire connection text format used by the Wire Annotation feature.