What is the benefit of catalog browser?

[Anonymous]

Hello Sir/Ma'am,

I am perplexed by the functionality of catalog. As far as I am concerned, using the Lookup can quickly fill up Manufacturer, Catalog, Assembly, etc. But could I also use some sort of table/menu to quickly fill out "Show/Edit Miscellaneous"?

I am expected to create customised Attribute names. But as a result of that, the attributes are recognised as NON-AutoCAD Electrical. The process of filling out those attribute values becomes very tedious and time consuming. Could anyone please suggest me a way to speed it up? 

sincerely,

Paul

[rhesusminus]

Check the TEXTVALUE field in the catalog database. Should work for you.

[Anonymous]

Hi Trond, 

I am not sure how to open the database file associated with the project. I checked the directory path as shown in the screenshot. But the default database file does not have the edited entries from the catalog browser. Please see screenshot.

sincerely,

Paul

[rhesusminus · Accepted solution]

This might be one of those 100 year old bugs in AUtoCAD Electrical. While it SAYS that it's using a give access database, it's actually using a different datbase...

Using Windows Explorer, do a search for default_cat.mdb, in ALL subfolders.. Can you find one with a date/time that seems valid?