terminal block footprint symbols

[susanjudd5274]

Can someone tell me how to build a footprint symbol for a panel layout for an 18 pole terminal strip? I have tried multiple times to use the terminal strip editor and other tools in Autocad Electrical 2009, but nothing seems to work. I've read the "Overview of non-schematic attributes" on terminal block footprint symbols, but I can't seem to get it to work. We use terminals on din rails, which works fine, but we also use pre-molded strips that have various terminal points. Autocad Electrical doesn't seem to tackle this scenario very well.

[dougmcalexander]

The Terminal Strip Editor is used to piece together all the separate DIN mount terminal blocks into a single graphical or tabular strip. It will not create a footprint. It calls up footprints itself from the footprint_lookup.mdb. If you have device that is one block with multiple points, that happenes to be applied as a terminal strip, just create a standard footprint using the Symbol Builder. That type of symbol would be handled like a circuit board with a terminal strip mounted on it. Just draft a rectangle in the basic shape of the devce and add attributes. It should work fine. You can even add wire connection attributes so your wire information can be annotated from the schematic. This is an option in Symbol Builder.