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hanchris
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Referencing

First, this is NOT a topic about XREFs or what AutoCAD calls referencing. It has to do with when you need to draft the same item more then once in the drawing and avoid having ACADE calculating it twice. I know we cannot be the only company that as come across this situation.

When you have a panel drawing there are times, when you might have to graphically show the same part a few times, typically in a Detail.

Do you create two sets of blocks, one as AutoCAD blocks and one as footprints?

Do you use special explode for those blocks that you do not want "smart"?

How do you normally signify to future engineers/draftsmen what is suppose to be "smart" and what is suppose to be "dumb"?


Any and all advice you can give pertaining to these questions will be most appreciative.

Thanks.
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dougmcalexander
in reply to: hanchris

I have this situation with DIN rail where I want to create a double scale
view for detail. I copy the actual "smart" DIN rail with all components,
scale it up, and as you properly guessed, I special explode it to remove the
intelligence. This allows me the detail but the BOM calculations don't
include double quantities.

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First, this is NOT a topic about XREFs or what AutoCAD calls referencing. It
has to do with when you need to draft the same item more then once in the
drawing and avoid having ACADE calculating it twice. I know we cannot be the
only company that as come across this situation.

When you have a panel drawing there are times, when you might have to
graphically show the same part a few times, typically in a Detail.

Do you create two sets of blocks, one as AutoCAD blocks and one as
footprints?

Do you use special explode for those blocks that you do not want "smart"?

How do you normally signify to future engineers/draftsmen what is suppose to
be "smart" and what is suppose to be "dumb"?


Any and all advice you can give pertaining to these questions will be most
appreciative.

Thanks.


Doug McAlexander


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aRGee
in reply to: hanchris

We keep the intelligence in the detailed views of the panel-layout. When done, we copy the detailed view to the total panel-layout and paste it in as a block. This way Autocad electrical only sees the blocks once.

Regards,
Robert

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