Interesting. I have never had an issue with wire sequencing, even using
dots. My wire list always matches the sequences I establish in the
drawings. This is when I am required to use dots. I usually just angle a
second wire off the component so the schematic becomes a wiring diagram.
The Europeans prefer the angled wire symbols in place of the dots because
they are not messy yet they still convey the wiring sequence. I worked for
a European company for 12 years and thus the angled tees are a common method
for me. I still do contract work for my previous employer; all in IEC
format.
Starting with AcadE 2008 if you insert angled tee symbols you do not need
define a wire sequence for the network; in fact you should not because if
you do it overrides the angled tees. The orientation of the angled tee sets
the sequence. It works great and is even somewhat improved in 2009. It
handles more complex networks like the ones in the attached sample drawing I
use for my AcadE training course.
I hope you find a method that will work for your situation.
wrote in message news:5944235@discussion.autodesk.com...
basically my problem is this, we can't get the wire sequencing to work
properly with dots no matter what we do (tried everything !!), we can't use
angled connections as it is deemed as looking messy.
So i was thinking of using an alternative like either hiding the angled
connections or scaling them down to look like a single wire ?
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