I am using ABS on a 30 day trial, going through the Tutorial and all's fine. But now I want to make a pallete and include some light fittings provided by a supplier.
I have created a blank palette and opened design centre to where the aecbContent/devices/lighting-Fluorecsent
drawing provided by the supplier is located. I select the drawing and right click on the mouse and select create tool palette. All the blocks are inserted into the palette OK. But I get both the -M and -P blocks on the palette so on input into the drawing I only get the 3D block or the plan view symbol which ever is selected.
When using a standard lighting palette supplied with ABS with similar blocks I just get the plan view symbol showing on the palette. on selection I get the symbol in planview the 3D block only shows when in an isometric view, have I missed a step someware along the way?
Your blocks will need to be set up as device
styles.The easiest way to learn this is "reverse engineer" what Autodesk already
set up. The blocks are located in drawing files in Aecb Content
4\Electrical\Devices. Any drawing located in this directory will show up
when you pick "Add Device" on the Electrical palette. Open one of the
drawings. You will notice all blocks are located in this one file (it
sounds like you may be to this point already). Go up to the Format menu
and pick Style Manager, pick Electrical Objects and then Device Styles.
This is where you define which blocks are used in each view, layer key style,
connectors, etc.
I
am using ABS on a 30 day trial, going through the Tutorial and all's fine. But
now I want to make a pallete and include some light fittings provided by a
supplier. I have created a blank palette and opened design centre to where
the aecbContent/devices/lighting-Fluorecsent drawing provided by the
supplier is located. I select the drawing and right click on the mouse and
select create tool palette. All the blocks are inserted into the palette OK.
But I get both the -M and -P blocks on the palette so on input into the
drawing I only get the 3D block or the plan view symbol which ever is
selected. When using a standard lighting palette supplied with ABS with
similar blocks I just get the plan view symbol showing on the palette. on
selection I get the symbol in planview the 3D block only shows when in an
isometric view, have I missed a step someware along the way?
The content drawing looks fine. I read back through
your original post and I think the problem is you are copying the tools from
design center to a tool palette. Electrical devices need to be inserted
from the "Add Devices" on the electrical palette. The electrical
devices need the properties assigned during the insertion process from "Add
Devices" for them to work properly. Your process is inserting the devices
as native autocad blocks. To illustrate this, insert a device from "Add
Devices". Pick the block and you will notice the only grips are where
connectors are assigned. Right click on it and you will see option like
"Circuit Info", "Switch Modify" etc. These options aren't available with
regular blocks. Explode the device once
and it becomes an acad block. Explode it again and it becomes individual
entities. I hope this helps.
Hi Andrew, Yes I think I'm on the write track now. I need to copy an existing tooI to my new palette and then modify the AecbDeviceadd command in the the tools properties box associated with that tool so that I insert the correct symbol library.
i.e., ^C^C(command "_AecbDeviceAdd" "li" "Switches") with the "Add switch" tool and light fittings with the "Add Device" tool.
