Autodesk 22505-051400-9000 - AutoCAD Electrical 2008, User Manual

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Apply a drawing-specific wire number settings that are maintained inside the
drawing's WD_M block.
Access:
Click the Project Manager tool. In the Project Manager, right-click the drawing
name, and select Properties
➤
Drawing Properties.
From the Projects menu, select Project
➤
Project Manager. In the Project
Manager, right-click the drawing name, and select Properties
➤
Drawing
Properties.
Wire Number Format
Wire number tags can be sequential or reference-based.
Specifies the way new wire number tags are created. The
wire number tag format must include the %N parameter Format
that is the base sequential or reference-based value per the
selection above. If your format includes the sheet number
%S parameter or the drawing number %D parameter, you
must enter the values in the edit boxes in the Drawing
Properties
➤
Drawing Settings dialog box.
NOTE For reference-based wire number tagging, individual
items in the suffix list are applied to the wire tags to keep
multiple wires in the same reference location unique. These
are added to the end of the tag, but you can force AutoCAD
Electrical to insert the suffix character somewhere within
the tag format. Use the Suffix position parameter, %X, in
the component tag format (for example, %X%N).
Specifies to use PLC I/O address values for wires that con-
nect to an addressed I/O point. This overrides both Sequen- Search for PLC I/O address on insert
tial and Reference-based tagging. New wires or wire renum-
bering on the current drawing shows PLC I/O address-based
wire numbers automatically.
NOTE Like component tags, AutoCAD Electrical uses the
concept of a wire tag format string with replaceable para-
meters. The %N parameter must always be part of the wire
format string. A typical format string might be just this %N
parameter.
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