To Configure Projects for Various Drawing Standards

You can have projects that require working in the legacy JIC standard and other projects that require the IEC standard.

To switch from one standard to another change:

• Schematic library folders
• Schematic icon menu
• Component tagging options

The library folders and icon menu are project settings. The component tagging options are on a per-drawing basis and must be applied to each drawing.

Project settings

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
2. Right-click on the project name in Project Manager.
3. Select Properties.
4. Select the Project Settings tab.
5. Expand the Schematic Libraries section.
6. Remove any folder names you no longer want and add any that you need. For example, remove the JIC folder and add the IEC library folder.
   Note: AutoCAD Electrical toolset searches for a symbol in the order the folders are listed.
7. Expand the Schematic Icon Menu File section.
8. Remove the menu you do not want and add the menu you need. For example, remove the ACE_JIC_MENU.DAT file and add the ACE_IEC_MENU.DAT file.
9. Click OK.

Drawing settings - change as a project setting

Component tagging options can be changed as a project setting and applied to a group of drawings.

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
2. Right-click on the project name in Project Manager.
3. Select Properties.
4. Select the Components tab.
5. In the Component TAG Options section, check the Combined Installation/Location tag mode option for IEC tagging, uncheck it for JIC tagging.

   If using IEC tagging, set any of the other tagging options.

6. Highlight all the drawings in Project Manager you wish to apply the project settings to.
7. Right-click and select Properties Apply Project Defaults.

Note: When the project settings are applied to a drawing, all settings are applied, not specific ones.

Drawing settings - change a single drawing

Component tagging options can be changed on a per-drawing basis.

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelManager. Find
2. Highlight the drawing in Project Manager that you wish to change.
3. Right-click and select Properties Drawing Properties.
4. Select the Components tab.
5. In the Component TAG Options section, check the Combined Installation/Location tag mode option for IEC tagging, uncheck it for JIC tagging.

   If using IEC tagging, set any of the other tagging options.

6. Click OK.

Note: You can change the component tagging options on the active drawing by selecting Drawing Properties. Find