Cross connection at bus

[Anonymous]

I need to discover how to apply a cross intersection instead of the "T" intersection like when execute the wire command.

-M

[rhesusminus]

Do you mean that you want two wires that are crossing each other, to actually be connected? Or?

[Anonymous]

A bus with wires 90 deg to the bus collinear on either side to one another forming an intersection, not a pass over where a break or jog out would suffice.

[rhesusminus]

I'm a little slow today. Could you manually create an image showing what you mean 🙂 ?

[Icemanau · Accepted solution]

If you are talking about the Bus Tap in the Single Line Diagram, that is easy...

Go to your library directory and then the 1- directory which should be in it.

Locate and open one of the Bus Tap DWG's.

Look at the connections and then add whichever ones are missing. following the same format.

NOTE - The various wire connection points have different X# at the front of the attribute name. You must follow this format to allow the Bus wires to connect properly.

Wires connecting from the RHS are X1

Wires connecting from the TOP are X2

Wires connecting from the LHS are X4

Wires connecting from the BOTTOM are X8.

Do a SAVE AS and change the name of the block as you save it.

NOTE - Keep the first five Characters and the last 3 Characters as these characters in a block name have specific functions within ACADE

Now try to insert the block in a dwg...

For a normal schematic, just run one wire to the connection point and let it connect. Now run the second wire to the same connection point.

It will also connect with no problems. ACADE will now see them all as the same wire.

Regards Brad

[Anonymous]

I am excited to try this solution and thank you for your detailed response.  I'm crossing my fingers and will give it a go now.

-Mac

[Anonymous]

I'm just getting this cleared up.  I have a horizontal bus and would like to run a wire vertically down off of the bus.  I also have a wire that I'd like to run vertically up from the bus and I'd like it to be collinear with the other wire which was run down off of the bus.  Is there a set procedure which could shorten up the process a bit and just drop in a "crossing intersection"?

-M

[rhesusminus]

Again.. An image of what you're trying to achieve would be tremendous!

[Anonymous]

I'm wondering what the normal order of operations would be to create this type of situation.

-M

[rhesusminus]

Sorry to be such a PIA, but I still don't understand what you mean.

To me this is like, "How do I draw this dot?"

Your image contains 3 places where a wire hits another wire and 3 symbols, which all are all monochrome.

[Icemanau]

For standard wires, just follow these simple steps...

Step 1 - draw the first wire 

 Step 2 - draw the first intersecting wire finishing on the main wire

 

Step 3a - Start drawing the second intersecting wire FROM the end away from the first wire

 

Step 3b - Finish the second  wire at the joint between the first wire and the first intersecting wire

3 simple steps that do what you want. 

 The Bus Joint I mentioned before is for SLD Bus Dwgs, but I did mention this method for normal wires.

Regards Brad