AutoCAD Electrical

[#1]

Has anyone come up with a nice way of grouping wire data? Using a car as an example, grouping wires for say
- LIGHTING (and then further segregating the wires into say)
- - HEADLIGHTS
- - TAILLIGHTS
- - INTERIOR
- - - DOME
- - - DASHBOARD
- - - DOORS

Besides being able to view it within AcadE, I then need to be able to extract this information for other application's use.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have!

[#2]

You could do that with layers; something like: WIRES-LIGHTING-HEADLIGHTS WIRES-LIGHTING-TAILLIGHTS And so on. "TomJ" wrote in message news:21919443.1090612553051.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com... > Has anyone come up with a nice way of grouping wire data? Using a car as an example, grouping wires for say > - LIGHTING (and then further segregating the wires into say) > - - HEADLIGHTS > - - TAILLIGHTS > - - INTERIOR > - - - DOME > - - - DASHBOARD > - - - DOORS > > Besides being able to view it within AcadE, I then need to be able to extract this information for other application's use. > > Thanks for any suggestions you might have!

[#3]

Thanks John for the reply. Is this layer info then extractable? We need to pass this info to other applications along with the wire info on these named layers.
-- Tom --

[#4]

The wire layer info is available in the wire reports that you generate from within ACE. Generate the report and then print to an Access/Excel file for importing to you other app.

Robert Hanrahan
Weigh Right Automatic Scale
ACE user since 1997

[#5]

Also, a little tip...

Set up wire layers in Drawing Config with names like:

WIRE*
BLU*
BLK*
BRN*
RED*

Use the asterisk as a 'wildcard' character.

Then you can add layers called "WIRE_somethin-somethin" all day long and never have to go back to config the wire layers. ACADE will now automatically treat all layers beginning with "WIRE" as a wire layer. Of course, this also makes it easy to transfer lots of wire layers from one drawing to another by dragging the layers from the Design Center into the current drawing. Then you just have to add the "WIRE*" entry if it's not already in your wire layer configuration.

[#6]

All - thanks for the input / suggestions!
-- Tom --