Custom cable marker not cooperating with Terminal Strip Editor

[SteveEE]

I created a custom cable marker based off of the existing default cable marker block. Unfortunately, whenever I use the custom block, the terminal strip editor sees the cable marker as a device instead of a cable. Now all of the terminal blocks generated by the editor are incorrect. Is there any solution to this? I can get by with the default cable marker block but the hassle of going and changing the text attributes to match our standards is a considerable pain. Thanks!

[drathak]

Post a sample of your custom cable marker symbols.  What exactly did you change?  Did you add anything?  Did you follow the block naming conventions for cable markers?

[SteveEE]

All I did in this case was change the text style and size.

[drathak]

Did you give them a different name?

[SteveEE]

What do you mean by a different name? The block name is HW_01 or HW_02.

When I was using the symbol builder to create the cable marker block there was no "cable" option so I had to choose "generic". The default name given to the block was HDV1_001, which I changed to HW_01 before saving.

[drathak · Accepted solution]

I didn't see your attachments the first time.  The underscore is what is causing your problem.  Cable markers should be HW01 & HW02 rather than HW_01 & HW_02.

Have a look at this for help on naming conventions. Cable markers happen to be the first thing covered.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/AutoCAD_Electrical/enu/2012/Help/0266-Symbol_L266/0269-Library_269/0270...

[SteveEE]

Ah ha!

Thanks for the help.