AutoCAD Electrical

[#1]

I wish to add a fuseholder and a fuse to a schematic.

The fuse holder is easy, but how would i add a fuse of a particular rating to this (a bit like a sub-assembly or parent/child I suppose)?

Both parts would have to come up in the BOM.

Thanks,

Dave W

[#2]

What a lot of us do is reference the Fuse in the schematic and make the fuse holder the sub-assembly or Multiple Catalog part. By picking the Fuse instead of the fuseholder for your primary catalog number you will be able to display the fuse rating on the schematic in the RATING1 attribute.

In the Panel side of things, I go into the footprint_lookup.mdb database and reference the fuse holder for the different fuse sizes.

For example, in the Bussmann table, for all MDL-# fuses I have the footprint set to a Wago Fuseholder dwg (WAGO/TRMS-TERMINAL BLOCKS/2006-1631)

I modified the footprint so that RATING1 will appear on the panel drawing at a specific spot on the fuseholder.

So, when I go to insert the fuse, the fuseholder appears on the panel.

They will both appear on the BOM (Schematic or Panel).

[#3]

Many thanks for the quick response Bob,

As i'm only working on schematics, I assume from your reply that I add the fuse first and connect wires to that and add the fuse holder as a separate component over the top of the fuse??

Is that correct?

Dave W

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Actually, no.

The Schematic symbol does not change. It still only looks like a fuse and you only enter one symbol. 

What you would do is insert the fuse in your schematic and the when filling out theMFG/CAT information, you would also select the Fuse Holder by clicking on "Multiple Catalog" and adding it as the first multiple part.

As you can see in the image, I first selected that Fuse's MFG/CAT number (Either by selecting it from the database or you can manually enter int in) and then I selected Multiple Catalog to briung up the smaller dialog box. In this one I fill in the Fuse Holder information (again, either manually or by DB). Then select Okay twice to accept the changes.

Now when I run the BOM for this page, I will get a fuse as the Primary part with the Fuse Holder as a sub-assembly.

As you can see in the image, The Rating of the fuse is listed both in the Dialog Box and on the symbol. This is how you get that info automatically.

I hope this makes it clearer.

[#5]

Bob,

This was great info, thanks!  Once this link is established, does it always come in as a sub-assembly?  Or do I have to do this with each fuse (as an example)?

[#6]

Chris,

Unfortunately, no. Doing it this way is a onetime only setup.

You can make it stick though by using the TEXTVALUE field in the database.

This does require editing the symbol and adding the extra attribute values (MFGXX and CATXX) for each extra item you want to be part of the assembly. MFG01 and CAT01 correspond the first Multi-BOM part, MFG02, CAT02 to the second, etc. all the way up to 99.

For the example I showed, I set the TEXTVALUE of MDL-1 to MFG01=WAGO;CAT01=2006-1631.

Now, when I select MDL-1 from the catalog database, the Multiple BOM parts are automatically filled in. This information also passes through to the Panel parts but you need to add the attributes to them also for this to work.

I go even one step further with my customized menu and create symbols with all the catalog info pre-filled in so all I have to do is insert the appropriate symbol (i.e., 1 Amp, 2 Amp, 3 Amp) and the data is already there.

I hope this helps.

[#7]

That does help, thank you!