Carl Smith is exactly right. The most likely explanation for the INS WIRE
command problem is using "inch" scaled symbols (i.e. jic1, jic125 libraries)
when AcadE thinks that the current drawing is working to a "full MM" metric
state.
The key is to understand AcadE's wire connection "trap" distance value. This
is a fixed distance, default 0.625 for "metric" (example: iec2, iec4 symbol
library usage) or 0.025 for "inch" (jic1, jic125 symbol library usage). It
defines how "far" AcadE will search from each end of a "wire" to find either
a component connection attribute (the X?TERMxx attributes on a symbol) or
the end of the mid-section of another wire (i.e. end-to-end wire to wire
connection or a wire to wire "Tee" connection). You can view this "trap"
distance setting by selecting the AcadE "Drawing Configuration" toolbar
button (next to last button on the main AcadE toolbar) and then selecting
the "Setup Scale" button in the upper right-hand corner of the displayed
dialog.
If the jic1/jic125 "inch" schematic symbols are being inserted but the new
drawing's configuration is set up as "mm full size" on the CONFIG dialog >
Setup Scale subdialog, then the wire connection "trap" distance defaults to
0.635. This value is so large that it captures both sides of the smaller
"inch" scaled schematic symbols (but works fine for the much larger "mm"
scaled library symbols). Instead of AcadE finding one wire connection point
for starting a point-to-point wire, it finds two wire connection points. It
picks the first one it finds in the database to start the wire from... so no
matter which side of the symbol you pick on to start the wire, the wire
always starts from the same wire connection point.
Check the above mentioned subdialog. If the "mm full size" or "inch scaled
to mm" radio button is selected, change it to the "inch" setting. See if
this immediately solves the problem.
"bbohmont" wrote in message
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> I am having a similar problem with a new project. When I insert
components, I can only route one wire per side. Older projects work fine
with the same setup, libraries, etc.
>
> The same symptoms have happened to me before. I was creating an AutoCAD
Electrical drawing but had not yet created the project. Once added to a
project, the problem when away. In current case, however, this fix does not
seem to work.