If you want to insert components in neat columns, you have three options: use AutoCAD Snap when inserting components use the Scoot command to move components and connected wires in place or use the Align Component tool. This tool inserts components into alignment with underlying wires, it does not align components side-to-side. Turning on Snap helps (0.125 is a good setting to use). Right-click or press ENTER to repeat the command. To try again, click Cancel on the Insert/Edit Component dialog box. If the underlying wire did not break, you did not select close enough to the wire. If you select directly on the wire or near to it, the coil symbol breaks the underlying ladder wire and reconnects. Position the component on the wire at line reference 403 near the neutral wire and click (1) In the JIC: Relays and Contacts dialog box, click Relay Coil.In the Insert Component: JIC Schematic Symbols dialog box, click Relays/ Contacts.Click Schematic tab Insert Components panel Insert Components drop-down Icon Menu.Zoom in on the upper left corner of the drawing.In the Project Manager, Project Drawing List, double-click AEGS04.dwg.In the Project Manager, double-click AEGS to expand the drawing list.If AEGS is not the active project, in the Project Manager, right-click AEGS and select Activate.

In this exercise, you insert components on the wires previously defined in AEGS04.dwg. When the child contact symbols are inserted, the child is related to the parent and the parent tag is assigned to the child symbol. When the parent coil symbol is inserted, it is assigned a unique component tag. The parent coil symbol and the child contact symbols represent a relay coil with a certain number of contacts. Insert a parent component, and assign description, location, and catalog values.ĪutoCAD Electrical employs a parent/child relationship for schematic components.

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