Insert Ladders And Wires (4:20 min)

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Let's take the very last section on Schematic Wiring

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to look at how we connect our wires from one page to another

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in our drawing.

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So throughout our drawing set that we have,

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we have more than obviously one drawing.

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And we need to be able to have those wires carry through

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from drawing to drawing.

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So in this case, this is what we call

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Source and Destination Arrows.

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And we need to know how to place those

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so that they can intelligently keep

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connections of our full wiring throughout the entire project.

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So what I'm going to do is zoom in on line 340 here.

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And I am going to go to my Schematic tab of my ribbon

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and grab a Source arrow.

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You can also do this by right-clicking on the wire

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and coming down to just grab Source and Destination here.

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Your marking menus are your friends.

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Get used to what's in there, so you

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don't have to go hunting through menus up in the ribbon.

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It makes it really easy to just right-click on the object

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that you're looking at and be able to get

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all of the editing and major tools

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that you would need to use right at your fingertips.

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So I'm going to put a Source arrow in here.

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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to now label this

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with whatever I want it to be.

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The code could be the wire number.

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It could be information about what it's wiring up.

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It could be anything you want it to be to then connect that

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to its destination.

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So in this case, I'm just going to repeat

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what the wire number is.

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But I could give it more description.

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I could say this is a particular motor wire or a particular type

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of wire that I want to be able to give it just a little

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more description.

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It doesn't get shown on screen.

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It's really for you, as the engineer,

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putting these things together to be

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able to figure out what that particular wire is

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when we get into the database.

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Now we can also choose-- remember, again,

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when we were looking at our project properties

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and our drawing properties.

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This is where the predefined arrow style comes in.

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You do have the ability to change it,

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but this is why we set this up in the beginning

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inside of our drawing properties and project properties.

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Now if you noticed, when I got to 5 here,

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there is an opportunity to create your own custom arrows.

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So you can sync the software with your own customizations

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for arrows, PLC styles, and so on.

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But we're just going to focus on the ones that

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come with the software, for this training.

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I'm going to leave it at 1, and then I am going to click OK.

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Now it's going to ask me if I want to insert the Destination

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arrow.

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Perhaps, I'm going from the bottom of one ladder

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to the top of the next.

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Absolutely fine, I would say yes to this.

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In this case, I'm actually going to jump drawings.

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I'm going to another drawing.

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So I'm going to say No.

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And then what I'm going to do is jump over to drawing 4.

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And I need that one to come in to be the top of this ladder.

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So now I'm going to right-click on this one,

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and I'm going to say Destination arrow.

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I remember the code.

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It wasn't that hard or that long ago,

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but I want to show you how you can

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see the rest of the codes that might be connecting

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into this particular wire.

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So this is how we would go look if we were just

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trying to look at the full database of every Source

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arrow we have.

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So I'm going to click here on Recent.

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And you can see that obviously, I only had one recently

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looked at there.

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And that's fair.

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If I wanted to Show all unpaired or Show all because these

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are the toggles.

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But I want to show it to you in a bigger space.

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So we're going to come out of Recent and this time,

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I'm just going to look at the whole project.

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So this is a bit more powerful.

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Now Recent obviously filters it down for you, which is great.

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If you've been doing a lot of these,

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it's a lot easier to find what you need

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if you just go to the Recent.

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But here, I can see every Source arrow I have.

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I can also say that I only want to show

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those unpaired ones again, like we saw in the last dialogue.

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But now, this is more meaningful because I can

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see everything that's missing.

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Think about an unconnected wire as basically a dangling wire

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in your package.

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It's not getting any connection points

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that it needs to be able to do the full wire from two

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reports and everything else that it needs.

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It would be an unconnected wire, which

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is obviously not an intelligent wire anymore.

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So we need to heal all of these.

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But for the one that we're doing,

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we're just going to grab this one, at the top.

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And then I'm going to click OK.

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Now what it's going to do, and this is the intelligence of it,

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it now put in that wire label of the wire number,

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and the code saying it's coming from line 340.

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So it's telling me there from/to of it.

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And it also recognizes that I just

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attached a wire that was red to a wire that was black.

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So if it's supposed to be the same wire,

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it's now warning me that my destination wire network is not

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the same as the source.

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And it wants to update it.

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So that's, again, the intelligence and the power

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of using these tools.

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So I'm going to say Yes.

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It's automatically going to update that wire network up

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to wherever it meets the next object that stops that

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from being line 340 anymore.

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And it says from 340 here.

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And if I jump back now to drawing 3,

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you'll see it automatically updates in real time

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that it is going to now line 402.

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So there's your source and destination arrows.

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Please take a moment to go do the exercise on Source

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and Destination Arrows.