Adding Terminals to Panel Layout

[michaelupholz]

When I try to add the terminal block strip. I receive an error message as follows:

PREVIEW WARING

Default terminal:

wd_default_terminal.dwg

not found. Unable to generate the preview.

Not sure how to fix this. Please help

[jseefdrumr]

OK, so the reason you'd be seeing this error is that, as stated, ACADE can't find 'wd_default_terminal.dwg'. It wants to use this dwg to create the blocks it needs for your terminal strip. Since it can't find that dwg, it can't create the terminal strip (or even show you a preview).

Another thing is, ACADE would only be wanting to use wd_default_terminal.dwg because you either 1) didn't assign a part number for one or more of the terminals; or 2) you did assign a part number, but haven't assigned a footprint specific to that part number.

So in all there could be several things to address in order to get this all the way fixed:

1. Find out why ACADE can't find that dwg; this could be anything from a pathing issue in the WD.env file to a moved or renamed folder. Once you do this, you'll have to figure out how to fix it. There's too many possibilities to go over them here. [start by searching for that file to see where it is, vs where ACADE 'wants' it to be.]

2. Assign a part number to every component in the terminal strip. [this is done in the terminal strip editor, 'catalog code assignment' tab]

3. Assign a footprint to each of those part numbers. [The command for this is found at Panel>Other Tools>Footprint Database Editor]

Hope this helps...let us know how it goes

Jim

[rhesusminus]

99% of the time, this is due to a wrong entry here (most likely a wrong 201X) :