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Contents
AutoCAD Electrical What's New
- Overview of AutoCAD Electrical Help
  - Use AutoCAD Electrical Help
- Join the Customer Involvement Program
- What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2011
- What's New in Previous Releases
- What's New in 2008 Release
- What's New in 2009 Release
- What's New in 2010 Release
- Ribbon Interface
Migration
- Migration Utility
Project Management
- Overview of projects
- About collaborative design
- Create a drawing
- Change drawing display options
- Overview of project-related files
- Overview of the project file format
- Archive a project
  - Archive a drawing set
- Delete a project
- Work with Multiple Clients
  - Overview of setup for multiple clients
- Drawing List Report
- IEC tag mode update
- Task list
Drawing and Project Properties
- Overview of project and drawing properties
  - Set project or drawing properties
  - Set project descriptions
- Use replaceable parameters
- Save settings to the project file
- Settings List Utility
- Create a template drawing
- Updating the WD_M Block
  - Overview of the WD_M block
    - Change the WD_M block
    - Add missing attributes to the WD_M block
- Using Layers
Symbol Libraries
- Determine symbol block names
- Library Symbol Naming Conventions
  - Overview of symbol naming conventions
- Split a tag name into two pieces
- Use multiple symbol libraries
  - How to install additional symbol libraries
  - Set a symbol library as the default
- Overview of one-line symbols
- Overview of Hydraulic and P&ID symbols
- Attribute Requirements
- Managing Library Symbols
- Symbol Builder
  - Symbol Builder
Symbol Preview Guide
- JIC Symbols
- IEC Symbols
PLC
- Generate PLC layout modules
  - Parametric PLC symbols vs. Full Units
- Insert PLC modules
- Overview of the PLC database file
  - Copy modules
  - Adjust the terminal information
- Single, Stand-alone I/O Points
  - Modify single, stand-alone PLC layout symbols
    - Insert PLC layout points
    - Annotate stand-alone I/O points
- Work with PLC styles
- Create PLC I/O Drawings from Spreadsheets
Circuits
- Circuit Builder
- Use circuitry
Component Tools
- Insert schematic components
- Insert or edit child components
- Insert a copy of a component
- Insert from catalog lists
- The schematic lookup file
- Insert from equipment lists
- Insert from panel lists
- Manipulate Components
  - Manipulate components
  - Annotate ratings attributes
- Swap contact states
- Component Cross-References
- Insert dashed link lines
- Follow signals
- Show signal paths
- Overview of DIN Rails
- Overview of user data records
- Wire Jumpers
  - Define wire jumpers
Component Attribute Tools
- Edit attribute values
- Force attributes to layers
- Manipulate component text
- Manipulate terminal text
- Move description values
- Move attributes
- Hide attributes
- Show attributes
- Rotate attributes
- Change attribute justification
- Change attribute text style
- Change attribute text size
- Rename an attribute
- Add attributes to blocks
- Set tags to fixed
- Retag components
- Change to multi-line text
- Add location codes
- Update child codes
- Location Mark Symbols
  - Substitute location mark symbols for text location codes
- Location box
- Modify library symbols
Wire/Wire Number Tools
- Overview of wires
- Use wire layers
  - Create wire types
  - Add existing wire layers to the drawing
- Change wire types
- Insert wires
- Insert multiple wires
- Interconnect components
- Trim wires
- Stretch wires
- Bend wires at right angles
- Overview of wire color/gauge labels
  - Map wire type labels to each wire layer
- Insert in-line wire markers
- Cable Markers
- Wire Gaps
  - Manipulate wire gaps
- Ladder Tools
  - Define and insert new ladders
    - Set ladder defaults
    - Insert new ladder
  - Modify an existing ladder
- Wire Numbers
- Signal Arrows
  - Signal Arrows
    - Add custom signal arrow styles
    - Modify signal arrow prefix
  - Fan In/Out Markers
    - Fan In/Out Source and Destination Markers
- Wire Sequencing
  - Control from/to report connection sequencing
Terminal Tools
- Insert terminals and connectors
  - Insert terminals
- Multi-Level Terminals
  - Overview of terminal relationships
- Terminal Properties Lookup
  - Overview of terminal properties database
    - Edit terminal properties database
- Terminal Strip Editor
  - Use the terminal strip editor
  - Generate terminal strip tables
    - Insert terminal strip tables onto drawings
    - Insert a terminal strip table in multiple sections
- Terminal jumpers
  - Edit terminal jumpers
- Terminal strip utilities
- Terminal wire connections
- Resequence terminal numbers
- Overview of connection sequencing
Point-to-Point Wiring Tools
- Working with Connectors
  - Use point-to-point wiring tools
- Bend wires at right angles
- Insert multiple bus wiring
- Import data from Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness
- Overview of the spreadsheet import file structure
- Insert splices
Project-Wide Tools
- Move from reference to reference
  - Start the Surfer
  - Continue a previous surf session
- Move between drawings
- Plot one or more drawings
- Project-wide utility
- Create a project-wide script file
- Renumber Ladder References
- Project-wide update or retag
- Track drawing changes
  - Track changes made to a drawing set
- Translate description text
- Publish to the Web
- Publish to DWF
- Title Block Utility
Icon Menus
- Overview of the Icon Menu Wizard
- Use alternate icon menus
- Modify Icon Menu File Directly
  - Overview of the icon menu file
BOM and Catalogs
- Catalog database
- How to install additional manufacturer content
- Overview of the catalog database table structure
- Overview of the _LISTBOX_DEF catalog database table
- Create a project-specific catalog database
- Catalog Assignment
- Contact Quantity/Pin List Lookup
  - Use pin lists
    - Pin list data carried on the parent
    - Modify the pin list database
  - Set pin list assignments for special uses
Reports
- Generate reports
- Schematic Reports
  - Generate schematic reports
- Panel Reports
  - Generate panel reports
- Overview of format files
  - Define format files
- Run automatic reports
  - Generate a report using format files
- Export/Import spreadsheet data
- Create user-defined attributes
  - Edit user-defined attribute list
- Export to Autodesk Inventor Professional
  - Set up for export to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness
    - Output reports to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable and Harness
    - Configure wire numbering for export
Panel Layout
- Overview of panel layouts
  - Access panel layout tools
- Overview of footprint attributes/Xdata
- Panel drawing configuration and defaults
- Relationship between schematic drawings and panel layouts
  - Automatic schematic/panel update
  - Schematic and panel symbol relationship
- Footprint/Terminal Insertion
- Footprint/Terminal Edit
- Layout Wire Connection Annotation
  - Add wire information to footprints
- Lookup Files
  - Use the footprint lookup file
- Item Numbers/Balloons
- Nameplates
  - Insert nameplates
    - Insert a nameplate
    - Create your own stretchable nameplates
- Panel Leveling/Sequencing Tools
Conduit Tools
- Overview of conduit tools
- Overview of conduit marker support files
- Generate a conduit marker report
- Generate a conduit routing report
Conversion Tools
- Convert promis.e drawing files to AutoCAD Electrical
- Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks
  - Finish mapping values from non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks
- Convert text to an attribute
- Convert Arrows
  - Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical arrows
    - Convert a block to a source arrow
    - Convert a block to a destination arrow
- Overview of ECDS legacy conversion
  - Convert using the ECDS to Electrical Database Builder
- Tagging and Linking Tools
  - Use tagging and linking tools
  - Overview of block/attribute mapping
    - Map block values using a user-defined spreadsheet
Miscellaneous Tools
- Overview of power check tools
- Overview of pneumatic tools
- Insert hydraulic components
- Insert P&ID components
- Troubleshooting Tools
  - Overview of real-time error checking
  - Modify invisible data
    - Edit existing invisible data
    - Add invisible data to an attribute
Tutorials
- Introduction
- Projects
- Title Block
- Wiring
- Schematic components
- Wire layers
- Circuits
- Surf
  - Surf - Introduction
  - Moving between symbols
- Block swap
  - Block swap - Introduction
  - Swapping components
- PLC
- Schematic terminals
- Wire numbers
- Panel layout
- Generating reports
- Connector diagrams
- P&ID and Hydraulic diagrams
- Symbol Builder
- Migration of AutoCAD Data
- Interoperability: Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical
Advanced Productivity
- Set up peer-to-peer component relationships
- Create automated pin assignments
- Set up AutoCAD Electrical for multiple users
- Show source and destination markers on cable wires
- Use the PLC Database File Editor
- Customize Circuit Builder
- Build your own symbols
  - Build your own symbols
- Add your own symbols, circuits, and commands to the icon menu
- Configure projects for various drawing standards
- Use Autodesk Vault with AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD Electrical Command
- AutoCAD Electrical Commands
Index

Actuated by the Level of a Fluid

Q021401

Actuated by the Number of Events

Q021402

Actuated by a Flow of Fluid

Q021403

Actuated by a Gas Flow

Q021404

Motorized Command

Q021326

Timing Command

Q021327

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