ACADE circuit components format

[vasiqshair]

My last post didn't get much attention but thanks to google, youtube and autodesk forums, my project is making progress. I keep having trouble with electrical components not being properly formatted when I add them in model space. See attached pictures. "Capture 9" is a 3 pole fuse but for some reason the fuses are overlapped on to each other. I can't use that in my drawing so I went ahead and added 3 single-pole fuses. This defeats the purpose of having the 3 pole option. Second, when I run a vertical 3-phase bus off of the horizontal 3-phase bus my connections look like the ones in "Capture 8". How do I make it look like the one in "Capture 7"? Thanks in advance.   

[jseefdrumr]

1. For the 3-pole fuse, please describe the workflow you use to bring them into the drawing.

2. As for the wire connection, this is an option that is handled in the drawing AND the project settings. For both, it lies on the 'Styles' tab, the button is in the bottom left. Open up the pull-down menu and you'll see two options for using angle wire connections.

Keep in mind that any wire connections that already exist as dots will need to be manually changed to use the angle. A quick way to do this is to go to Schematic>Edit Wires/WireNumbers>Toggle Angled Tee Markers. This command actually works on the dots, by switching them to an angle tee. You can do multiples at once. Then use the same command to cycle through and pick the correct one (there are 4 orientations). However, this command WON'T return you back to the wire dot. Once you've made them tees, you can't go back (with this command).

Hope this helps,
Jim

[vasiqshair]

Schematic tab --> Icon Menu --> Fuses/ Transformers/ Reactors --> Fuses --> Fuse, 3 Pole. I'm using the IEC icon menu. 

[jseefdrumr · Accepted solution]

OK, so if you look closely at captures 7 & 8, you'll see a clue to what's going on here. #7 shows the desired output, angle tees. Note that we can also see wire loops where wires cross.

Now look at #8. Do you notice the size difference between the dot and the wire loop? The dot should be smaller than the wire loop.

If you're using the IEC icon menu and seeing this result on the wire loops, it implies a mismatch with some of your settings. I don't draw to the IEC standard, so I don't know exactly how to fix this one, but a quick forum search turned up a good post from Brad (Icemanau): https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/wire-gap-size-issues/m-p/6253402/highlight/t...

If that doesn't get you together, it should at least get you started on the right path.

Hope this helps,
Jim

EDIT: forgot to mention, fixing the scaling issue *should* take care of the 3-pole insertion issue as well. -Jim