Add Record or Edit Record Dialog Boxes

Adds or edits the information in the user-defined pick list.

Find

 Command entry:  AECOMPONENTCAT

Find

 Command entry:  AEFOOTPRINTCAT

Note: When you add a record you must indicate if the component or circuit is Schematic or Panel and you need to indicate if it should be inserted as a block or exploded upon insert (as you would for a circuit). Then, at a minimum, you need to define the block name and either the catalog number or description.

Select Schematic or Panel Device

Specifies if the component (or circuit) is Schematic or Panel.

Single block or explode on insert

Specifies if it should be inserted as a block or exploded upon insert (as you would for a circuit).

Minimum of Block Name and either Description or Catalog

• Block/Assembly/Circuit: The Block value can be a symbol name or AutoLISP expression. If the footprint block is not in an AutoCAD search path or an AutoCAD Electrical toolset search path, include the part of the path that needs to be appended to one of these search paths (or enter the full path to the footprint block). Use Browse to locate the block name.
• Description: Specifies the optional comment for the footprint record. This is for reference in this file only. It does not get extracted into any AutoCAD Electrical toolset report
• Catalog: (not used for exploded inserts) The Catalog value may contain wildcards. Wildcard characters include:

  * = match any characters

  ? = match any single character

  # = match any single numeric digit

  @ = match any single alphabetic character

  Note: If the catalog number actually has a character in it like #, then precede it with the ` char, example "F120#10" would be "F120`#10"

Optional Values

(These options are not available for exploded inserts) Options for specifying the manufacturer code, assembly code, and text values. If the catalog information includes an ASSYCODE value, include it in the record to ensure a complete match. If the same footprint is used no matter what the ASSYCODE value is (ex: different combinations of contact blocks on a base relay) then use " * " wildcard character for the ASSYCODE value in the record.

The TEXTVALS value can be used to filter your pick list based on the component's FAMILY code value. For this to work, the text substring "FAMILY=<family code>" needs to be somewhere in each line of text to be displayed. The TEXTVALS field can also be used to auto-fill attribute values on insertion. For example, if the line includes the substring "MFG=AB;CAT=1492;LOC=PNL1" then the MFG, CAT, and LOC edit boxes will auto-fill with the values "AB", "1492", and "PNL1" respectively.