Project Wide Terminal strip install and location change/update

[Anonymous]

I have a project that is 50 plus drawings. I have several terminal strips grouped by tag strip name. Is there a way to change or update the location and install information for each tag strip ID through out the whole project? 

Thanks,

Jim

[drathak]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I have a project that is 50 plus drawings. I have several terminal strips grouped by tag strip name. Is there a way to change or update the location and install information for each tag strip ID through out the whole project? 

Thanks,

Jim

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Kinda sorta.  You can use the Export To Spreadsheet function and then edit the spreadsheet.  Then import it back in.  Quickest way I can think of.

[dougmcalexander]

Joe's method is one of my favorites to use.  On smaller strips, where the terminals are grouped together on a schematic drawing, you can use the Copy Installation Code or Copy Location Code utilities on the Edit Footprints panel of the Panel menu tab.  This utility will work on schematic drawings as well.  You can window-select to process multiple terminal symbols at once.  You can use this utility to edit an entire strip, if it has already been inserted into the panel.

[ccad2509]

Doug your offering up your favorite method not the actual method thats built into acade 

do i need to remond you of last time you did this  ?

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Electrical-General/Changing-Terminal-Block-Tag-Strips-Simultan...

1) Goto Panel> Editor

select terminal strip you wish to edit the presss edit

2) youcan now select any or all the terminals in the block and then press resign terminals

3) you can now browse to a different existing block details or enter new block details

click ok >oK>Done

and the project updates

[drathak]

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@ccad2509 wrote:

Doug your offering up your favorite method not the actual method thats built into acade 

do i need to remond you of last time you did this  ?

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Electrical-General/Changing-Terminal-Block-Tag-Strips-Simultan...

1) Goto Panel> Editor

select terminal strip you wish to edit the presss edit

.....

click ok >oK>Done

and the project updates 

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All well and good if you are updating one strip of 50 terminals scattered across several drawings.  But if you have say 50 12-point blocks (strips) then that would be tedious.  Bulk data editing is where it is at in that situation. 

There's always more than one way to skin a cat.

[dougmcalexander]

Absolutely Joe!   There are often 2-3 ways to accomplish the same thing in Electrical. It sometimes depends on what you were doing just before you needed to perform the next edit.  TSE is still one of my favorite tools in AutoCAD Electrical, but the spreadsheet offers virtually unlimited editing of virtually everything in the project.  That has always been my "go to".  It predates TSE.  It even predates intelligent panel layouts.  I have always liked editing in a spreadsheet.  

Reassigning via TSE can require you to reinsert the terminal strip, when all you really wanted was to change attribute values.  After I insert a strip, I unhide the P_TAGSTRIP attribute of the first terminal in a strip, so the drawing shows the strip ID.  I then rotate the attribute and reposition it above the strip.  I would rather not have to redo all that, which is required after Rebuild.  If you change Location Code via TSE, you have to Insert the Strip all over again, not just Rebuild it.

You can renumber a terminal strip via TSE as well, but TSE renumbers the footprints and back annotates the schematic, which can sometimes result in terminals not be numbered in order of their appearance in the project.  I like sequentially-numbered terminals to be numbered according to their appearance in the project, based upon drawing order.  The command AETERMRENUMPROJ can do that.  It is a command leftover from the pull-down menu days.  It still exists but has no place in the ribbon.  In fact, there was never an icon for it, since it was from a pull-down.  It has a sister command called AETERMRENUMPICK, which prompts for a beginning number (or alphanumeric value) and as you click terminals it increments them sequentially.  I created icons for these two commands and I added them to my ribbon menu in the Edit Components panel, and also in the right-click menu for terminals (Shortcut Menus>Hot Wire menu only - Schematic terminals).  I give these icons to my clients, while teaching them how to use the CUI editor.

[testsubject]

I have even another way to do it completely different from these.

I use Find/Edit/Replace Component Text on the Schematic tab and then select the entire project.

The first item is TAG. Select the tagstrip strip you want to change and then enter the new tag strip in the Find and Replace fields. This does the whole project including panels without having to re-insert the terminals.

Like Doug stated, many ways to skin this cat...

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the help guys. I went with the excel spreadsheet but all look good. Does anyone know how to change the font size of the text for the location and install project wide?

[dougmcalexander]

Project-wide Utilities is one way I like. You can change font (called Style) and size.