Hi, my job is to design electrical schematics. I'm doing this for several years now. Throughout these years I always had the agreement with the study groups and the electricians that the Source/Destination arrows point in the direction of the current flow. This means it's possible there're two destination-arrows connected on one potential (wire).
I worked with all kind of designing programs and never had a problem with the Source/Destination Applications. Now I started working with Autocad Electrical 2009 and it's not possible to put two destination-arrows on one wire. When I want to connect a second destination-arrow on one wire, he just adapts the first destination-arrow.
Who can help me with this problem?
Thanks
You can send one source to multiple destinations, as long as the destinations are separated by components. For example, you branch off the main and neutral to feed a control circuit. You add a ladder to the right-hand side of your page. You drop a source onto a branch from L1. You insert a destination onto the top left rail of the control circuit ladder. You cannot then insert a source onto a branch of neutral and insert a second destination on the top right rail of the control circuit, until you add components to the rungs to remove the dead short from rail to rail. What I just described is from an exercise I teach in my classes so my trainees will not run into this problem when they get back to their office and start their first project. I actually let my students make this error so they can understand what Electrical is doing.