Hello all,
I am teaching myself AutoCAD MEP and I downloaded the 2013 student version. I found the electrical palette but I cannot for the life of me find the symbol for a duplex receptacle. In the palette is the symbol for a twin unswitched socket. But I want the duplex receptacle, a circle with two parallel lines, and I can't find it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Neil
I am using 2014 but electrical items should be in the same place. I found mine on the Power-Lighting tab of the tool palette in the electrical workspace.
And if that is somehow missing then you can pull the Style from the recepticle style drawings shown below.
Iam using autocad mep 2015 and when using power lighting devices palettei cannot find receptacles tab where I can invoke Duples or another content, plz help
Thank you for your reply. Can you give more intermediate steps to the solution above? Receptacles is not showing up in the tool palette, however I do have the *.dwg that you pointed to. I tried opening that file to add manually to the palette, and even though a "Ctrl-A" selected some 18 objects, nothing is visible in the file.
Hello I am having a very similar issue but unable to rectify it just yet. I am using a student version of MEP 2019 and I dont see any receptacles on the tool pallets. I have everything else lights, switches but no receptacles. Where would I pull the style drawings from
I loaded 2024 electrical and seem stuck on finding every day building symbols.
It is easier to create a block and copy it than search AutoCAD.
@JohnSchwartz3755 wrote:
I loaded 2024 electrical and seem stuck on finding every day building symbols. ...
This forum is for the AutoCADMEP variant, which is quite different from AutoCADELECTRICAL's tools, features and abilities. Perhaps you are using the incorrect software?
AutoCADMEP is aimed at what I would simply call 'inside building electrical design";
ELECTRICAL is more focused on infrastructure projects, aka outside the building and up to the building.
Are you by chance using the correct software? BTW, if you id not know, all of us that subscribe to AutoCAD 2024 can use those two variants (and more) for free.
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