Looking for more on AutoCAD Electrical? Check out Managing and Creating Wire Layers in AutoCAD Electrical and we’ll be posting more over the next few weeks. When you decide to upgrade you can just replace the previous release library with the new library. If you keep your custom symbols, custom footprints, and custom circuits in folders outside the standard libraries that come with AutoCAD Electrical there is an added benefit when you upgrade to the new release of AutoCAD Electrical by not needing to worry about what you added to the library of blocks that did not come with AutoCAD Electrical. Author Shaun Bryant shows you how to do this. The Insert WBlocked Circuit command strips the outer block away and allows AutoCAD Electrical to recognize the components as smart AutoCAD Electrical components. The components from your schematic drawings can also be referenced in panel drawings using the Panel List. Make sure you use this command and not the standard AutoCAD Insert command. Now that you have your custom circuits saved to a folder you need to use AutoCAD Electrical’s Insert WBlocked Circuit command: Additionally, you can create subfolders at this location to further organize them and along with a short name will make it easy for you to know what they are. As you create circuits in AutoCAD Electrical just use the wblock command and save them out to this location. Just create a folder in your defined library and manage them as regular blocks. The solution is not using the User Circuits menu to manage your circuits. This is a great solution if you have a small number of standard circuits you need to use over and over, but what if you have a large number of custom circuits and managing them here becomes time consuming? Additionally, you can modify the icon menu to add more if you need to. It’s called the User Circuits and is located under the Miscellaneous heading in the Icon Menu:Īs you can see it has 20 pre-defined place holders for your user circuits. AutoCAD Electrical gives you a menu option that allows you to store your custom circuits. In AutoCAD Electrical you create a variety of circuits that are company specific and you want to reuse them in other designs to save time.

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