Schematic Icon Wizard

[MTaylorICC]

I'm in the process of adding a database to Autocad Electrical 2015. I am currently having difficulties adding the schematic symbol to my drawing. Right now I'm at a point where I can add the panel footprint through the icon menu(using the wd_infpx command) and I can then add a schematic symbol by using the insert component via panel list. I cannot figure out how to do the same in reverse. I've got 60 different schematic symbols, so adding each block to the icon menu is really not how I would like to accomplish this. Is there possibly a command similar to the wd_infpx command but for schematic symbols, basically pointing to the my custom table and choosing a schematic symbol based off of catalog information.  Multiple catalog numbers share the same schematic footprint.

Thank you,

Matt Taylor

[rhesusminus]

Hi.

If I understand you correctly, you want to browser the catalog, select the component you were looking for, and insert the correct schematic symbol into the drawing?

This is exactly what the  new Catalog Browser in AcadE 2015 is built to do.

Edit your database in the catalog browser (the little pencil-icon on the right side), and insert the appropriate block names in the SYMBOL2D field. To have multiple catalognumbers attached to the same footprint havea look at the assembly code option, or maybe adding mfg01/cat01 attributes to your symbol, and populate these via the TEXTVALUES field.