Put the company name in place of the “ace” to easily verify that the correct menu is being used and edited. The default names are ace_jic_menu.dat and ace_panel_menu_jic.dat. The icon menus can, and should be, renamed. The manufacture and family subfolder names are still needed or AutoCAD Electrical will be unable to find the footprint drawing. Note that the path starts at the “Footprints” folder. Since the same footprint can represent many catalog items, wildcards are used to limit the number of lines needed. This database is used to lookup the footprints needed for the 2D panel representation based off of catalog number. These are being used by Inventor to create 3D representations based off of the schematic information. However do not change the order of the columns in the database or add any additional columns.ĢD and 3D physical representation is now being added to this database as well under the SYMBOL2D and SYMBO元D fields. The headings can be changed to better fit the information entered. There are three fields for additional information. This makes importing/merging existing part numbers and missing items quite easy at a mass level. However these databases can be edited with Microsoft Access directly as well. Manufactures include, AB, ABB, ANIXTER, AROMAT, AUTOMATIONDIRECT, BECKOFF, BELDEN, BURKLIN, BUSSMANN, DELIXI, EATON, ENTRELEC, FESTO, FUJI, GE, HARTING, HOFFMAN, HONEYWELL, HUBBELL, LAPP, LEGRAND, LG, LITTLEFUSE, MERLIN GERIN, MITSUBISHI, MODICON, MOELLER, MURRELEKTRONIK, NEWARK, NORGREN, OMRON, PANDUIT, PARKER, PEPPERL FUCHS, PHOENIX CONTACT, PILZ, PROSOFT, RITTAL, SCE, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, SIEMENS, SQD, TELEMECANIQUE, TRICONEX, TURCK, WAGO, and WEIDMULLER.įor the most part, data is added/edited inside of AutoCAD Electrical.
From there, select the manufactures desired. You will have an option to Add/Remove Features. If you find some manufactures missing, go to Add/Remove Programs, select AutoCAD Electrical and then press Uninstall/Change. The manufactures included in the database are selected during the installation of AutoCAD Electrical. On a slower network, loading these tables can take some time. Others want all of the catalog information supplied by Autodesk from the start. Some companies like to start with a completely blank database and add only their information. This gives you the option of having the default being the company standard components and a secondary containing everything else. Users can then switch to it anytime they are selecting catalog information. The secondary catalog lookup is defined in the environment file. The databases consist of the Catalog Lookup (default_cat.mdb), Footprint Lookup (footprint_lookup.mdb), Parametric PLC Lookup (ace_plc.mdb), and the Electrical Standards (ace_electrical_standards.mdb).Ī secondary catalog lookup can be created as well and named whatever you desire.
Needed changes to the wd.env file can be found here. The third path listed, is the path that is currently being used to find the environment file. To verify the environment files location, right click on the active project and select Settings. The default location is C:\Users\>\Documents\Acade 2015\AeData.
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This makes changes to the environment file affect all users the next time the software is loaded. AutoCAD Electrical will then default to the one on the network. The wd.env file on the local disk should then be renamed or deleted. All users should add this location as the first path in AutoCAD’s Support File Search Path. This file should live in the shared Support folder listed above. This is the mapping file that AutoCAD Electrical uses for most of its search paths.
Shared Files The Environment File (wd.env) Standard Footprints (these could also remain on the users C:\ drive from the standard install) Standard Symbols (could also remain on the users C:\ drive from the standard install) Folder structure should resemble something of the following… Shared FoldersĪ network share is required as the most efficient means of sharing the databases and libraries. In this post I want to review some of the files, and folder structure, that AutoCAD Electrical needs to function properly in a multi user environment.
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