Adding Content – Inserting the Symbols

This article is part 4, the final installment in my series on adding content to AutoCAD Electrical.

1. Create your set of symbols
2. Add the data to the catalog database
3. Add your symbol to the icon menu and Catalog Browser
4. Insert the symbol

In the previous article I looked at adding the symbols to the icon menu and Catalog Browser. So now we are ready to insert the symbol.

Insert Symbol from Icon Menu

1. Open the Icon Menu, Schematic tab > Insert Components pane > Icon Menu.
2. Locate and select your symbol.
   
3. Your symbol is attached to your cursor, making it easy to insert.
   
4. Once you select the location, the appropriate Insert\Edit dialog opens. The Tag is automatically assigned based on the Drawing Properties settings.
5. Click Lookup and assign the catalog value as needed.
6. Click OK. If everything goes as expected, wires break as needed.
   

Insert Symbol from Catalog Browser

1. If the Catalog Browser isn't open, click Schematic tab > Insert Components panel > Catalog Browser.
   You may need to expand the Icon Menu drop-down to find this command. The Catalog Browser can remain open all the time if you use it often. You can use other commands while it is open.
2. Search for your catalog value.
3. Click the record in the browser. The menu with any associated symbols displays.
   

   If you associated multiple symbols, the menu shows them all.

4. Click the symbol and select the location.
5. The symbols is inserted and the Insert\Edit dialog opens. The catalog value is already assigned since it was inserted from the Catalog Browser.
   
6. Add any other values needed and click OK.

-Pat Murnen

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