When you insert the parent coil, click Multiple Catalog and add the aux
contact. It will appear in the BOM as a sub-assembly item that needs to be
added to the parent. With AcadE 2009 you can also assign an item number to
the Multiple Catalog entries. You can enter up to 99 Multiple Catalog
(sub-assembly) parts.
Hint: The Multiple Catalog entries can be pre-loaded into blocks my adding
an attribute called MFG01 for the manufacturer and CAT01 for the catalog
number. You can add MFG01 through MFG99 and CAT01 through CAT99. These are
simply pre-loaded versions of the Multiple Catalog entries. It is wise to
add these to specific footprint symbols since these are more specific than
the contactor coil, but if you always use the same contactor and aux
contact, you could add to the HMS1 and VMS1 blocks as well. But you can
always just click Multiple Catalog and add as needed.
Another way to accomplish this is through the ASSYCODE. Go to the parts
database and add a value of something like NO_AUX to the Assembly List field
of your specific aux contact. You will need to click the checkbox next to
Assembly List to activate this function. Later, when you insert the
contactor coil, just type NO_AUX into the ASSYCODE box. This will add one
NO_AUX contact to the BOM. If you want two auxiliary contacts, type
2,NO_AUX. The same can work for NC_AUX. You can even enter something like
2,NO_AUX;2,NC_AUX into the ASSYCODE field of the Insert Edit Component
dialog to order two of each NO and NC auxiliary contacts.
If you always want one normally-open auxiliary contact, add the NO_AUX to
the Assembly Code field in the catalog record of the parent coil(s) you use.
You will need to check the box next to the Assembly Code field to activate
this function. With this feature engaged, you get the NO_AUX contact
automatically when you perform a Lookup and assign the part number to the
coil that contains an Assembly Code value that matches the Assembly List
value of a particular Auxiliary contact catalog record.
wrote in message news:5940796@discussion.autodesk.com...
I guess you would want this in some cases.
You can have "clip-on" contacts for contactors. These are a part of the
parent component and normally use the same tag. But you would ALSO want them
in your BOM. If a child symbol has MFG/CAT attributes with values in it, it
will appear in the BOM report.
THL
"JeffatICS" wrote in message news:5940578@discussion.autodesk.com...
> Why would anyone want to do that? mfg and cat attributes on child blocks
> makes no sense I am surprised that this feature exists. ACE is just going
> to ignore child blocks in a BOM report.
> WOW if you get an answer to this one I would like to know what's the
> point. I find it bad enough adding part numbers to blocks in a drawing but
> to add them to the child blocks as well would in my opinion be a waste of
> time.
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Design Engineer/Consultant/Instructor/Mentor
Specializing in AutoCAD Electrical Implementation Support
Phone: (770) 841-8009
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