ACE comes with numerous symbol libraries. You select the main library during installation, right after you select the manufacturers for the catalog database. After you select the main library you can choose additional libraries. You set the libraries and menus for each project in project properties. Select the library or menu category and click Default to assign the main library as your choice for a project.
Hint: To add more manufacturers and/or libraries go into Windows Control Panel> Programs and Features. Select AutoCAD Electrical. Click Uninstall/Change. Choose to Add or Remove Features. Make your selections, click Next, and click Update.
Hint: To add more manufacturers and/or libraries go into Windows Control Panel> Programs and Features. Select AutoCAD Electrical. Click Uninstall/Change. Choose to Add or Remove Features. Make your selections, click Next, and click Update.
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Are you now able to access the Icon Menu and select the Thermostat from the appropriate section?
Is it only the The Thermostat that is causing this error or are other components doing the same?
Is the component you are trying to install a custom component or one of the standard ones that comes with ACADE?
Are the search paths pointing to the correct directorys to be able to find the components. See attached for clarification.
Under schematic Libraries, you should have at least one entry. This entry should point to a directory full of block dwgs. It is these files that ACADE can not find according to what you are saying.
Check to make sure that the entry is correct. If it is not correct, select it and then click 'Browse' on the right, then navigate to the correct directory where all these blocks are located.
Note that I have my blocks located on a server to allow everyone to use the same blocks. This was setup manually and you path setup should still be as it was when ACADE was installed.
If the path is correct then you might not have permission to access the directory that the blocks were placed in by default.
For this, you will need Administrator privileges and it is best to do this whith only Windows Explorer running.
Go to the directory containing the library directory (IE the one where the directory shows as a folder) in Windows Explorer and Right Click on the directory name. Select the Security tab on the dialog box and then select your user name from the list.
The permissions should have a tick next to every entry under 'Allow'. If any of the first 6 entries are under 'Deny', then that will contribute to the problem.
To fix, click on 'Edit' while your username is selected, and then select the 'Full Control' checkbox under the 'Allow' heading. This will automatically change all the other settings to 'Allow'. Click on 'OK' and then 'OK' again to exit out once all the changes are made to finish.
You may have to restart your system at this stage to allow everything to propogate through the windows settings.
Regards Brad
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Brad Coleman, Electrical Draftsman
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Your project is obviously set up wrong.
You're using the IEEE icon menu, but the JIC125 and NFPA symbol libraries.
The motor symbol you're trying to insert doesn't come as a symbol with those standards.
Please double-check your project properties, and make sure they're pointing to the correct symbol libraries.
We HAVE a screenshot of that:
From the AcadE help-file:
In the first screenshot you see AcadE searching the User-folder, then the project-folder and then the folders specified in the project. Followed by the AutoCAD search paths.
You can make AcadE search the AutoCAD Search paths before the project paths, by enabling the WD_ACADPATHFIRST setting in the wd.env file.
The others have advised you well regarding the icon menu and symbol library folder assignments in Project Properties. I will only add that the IEEE symbols are not appropriate for control panel design schematics. They are for circuit board schematics. It was a big mistake for Autodesk to include that library. And to make matters worse, the symbols are not all correctly made. In fact a huge portion of them do not meet the standard of IEEE-315.
Similarly, the JIC symbols are out-of-date. You should use the NFPA symbol library for North American designs. JIC is a standard from the 1970s. The Joint Industrial Council hasn’t existed since 1979. The symbols themselves come from ANSI Y32.2, but the tag letters are governed by NFPA 79.
I guess you have figured out that the Icon Menu assignment is separate from the symbol library assignment. Normally you want to use the menu that matches the symbol library folder you assign. But you could use the NFPA menu in conjunction with the IEC symbols, in case you need to use IEC symbols but aren’t familiar with them yet. You could do the same thing in reverse, in case you know IEC symbols but not NFPA.
The menu and symbol defaults in the wd.env file are not “live”. They are there as a convenient way to auto-assign the menus and libraries to a project. If you click the Symbol Library category in Project Properties, and click on the Default button, the software will then read the wd.env file and load the schematic symbol library paths listed in the wd.env file. It will assign the icon menu in a similar fashion, if you click the icon menu category and then click Default. Other than that, the listings in the environment file sit dormant. What matters is the settings in Project Properties.
Doug McAlexander
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Specializing in AutoCAD Electrical Implementation Support
Phone: (770) 841-8009
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We don't need that screenshot.
The screenshot we have lists those paths already!
See for yourself:
@rhesusminus thanks for the screenshot of your Project Properties. I meant the Current Settings of his (ruebln) project: project>Settings which exactly confirms the current setting of the project. Thanx.
