Transcript
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:08
Now, you've learned how to insert wires, components, set
00:12
up your projects.
00:13
Let's talk about some of the most basic editing tools
00:16
that we need to use from time to time whenever
00:19
we're in these projects.
00:20
They are very simple and easy to find.
00:22
You can get them from the Schematic tab
00:25
of the ribbon inside the Edit components area here.
00:29
Or they're very easy to grab from that right-click
00:33
in the marking menus that we have
00:34
in all of the different types of components.
00:37
So the most basic one of all is move.
00:38
If I want to move a component and I
00:42
want to pick it up and move it to another spot, that's
00:45
a move if I want to just adjust it on the wire
00:48
it's attached to, that's to scoot.
00:50
So we're going to take both of those in separate pieces.
00:53
So first let's take a look at scoot.
00:55
If I were to right-click on this component and choose scoot,
00:59
I can slide it along that wire.
01:02
Now, I can't jump over another component.
01:04
It's leaving it attached.
01:06
All it's literally doing is allowing you to just adjust
01:09
its spacing a bit.
01:10
Not moving its attachments, not changing its tagging
01:13
information, just sliding it so that you can gain more space.
01:17
Just like we did with wires, this
01:19
allows us to scoot that object to just gain a bit more space
01:23
or adjustment of centering things like that of alignment
01:27
that we want to have on the drawing.
01:28
So if I were to scoot this over, notice
01:30
that because of my settings for centering the wire number,
01:33
it automatically adjusted the wire numbers
01:35
to recenter themselves with a new location of that object.
01:39
Now, I am actually going to make my drawing a bit
01:44
messier so you can see another tool that we have called align.
01:48
We will do that in just a second.
01:50
The one other type of scoot I want to show you
01:52
is the ability to scoot an entire rung.
01:55
If I grab this rung anywhere I want on it,
01:57
the whole thing will select and I can now scoop this up
01:60
and down the bus lines.
02:02
So it's still attached to the bus lines,
02:04
but if I come down and grab it and say
02:06
I want it to go down to 416, it then drops its whole self down
02:09
there and then updates any components
02:12
that need to be re-tagged.
02:13
And we'll look for any associated components
02:16
that need to be updated in the panel like you see here.
02:19
Now, I am going to task this because I'm
02:21
going to show you the task list as another option for editing
02:25
in a second.
02:29
That was scoot.
02:30
Let's talk about move.
02:32
If I want to pick this whole push button up
02:34
that I was just scooting, I'm going to use the marking menu,
02:37
grab move component, and then adjust that over to line 421.
02:43
I can place it here and it automatically then updates
02:46
that tag and wants to look for any related panel devices.
02:51
And, again, I'm going to task it.
02:53
So that's the difference between scooting it and moving it.
02:56
This obviously healed the wires over here.
02:59
It now dropped it down to just one single wire number
03:02
instead of the two because there's no longer
03:03
an object splitting it.
03:05
And it automatically came over here and trimmed the wires
03:07
and then split these wire numbers.
03:09
So if you think about all of that
03:11
manually, if you were to go back to just use a standard AutoCAD
03:14
move, that's going to be a lot more work
03:16
for you to do to clean up to make sure that you don't now
03:18
have errors in your project.
03:20
Really important to use these editing tools.
03:24
Copy works the same way.
03:26
If I want to make a copy of this same component
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I right-click and copy component.
03:31
I can then come down, place it on my rung.
03:37
It opens up the dialogue box and gives me
03:39
all of the same information about that component
03:42
except that the component tag has been
03:44
updated to its new location.
03:46
You want to make sure you do that so you
03:48
don't have duplicate tags.
03:50
You don't want two push button 421s.
03:56
And now it's looking for item numbers
03:58
and actually checking that it's seeing some re-sequencing.
04:01
Now, if we need to delete a component,
04:04
we also do that through those tools.
04:07
Please do not hit the Delete key on your keyboard.
04:10
Really common thing that people do out of AutoCAD,
04:13
not something we want to do in electrical
04:15
because that will not then update the background database
04:18
information that keeps electrical so intelligent.
04:21
So we would right-click instead on the device
04:23
and hit Delete component.
04:25
Now, it wants to look for any children that might
04:27
be associated with this device.
04:29
Obviously, I just copied this one,
04:31
I'm not going to look for that right now,
04:33
but you definitely want to make sure you
04:34
do that so you don't leave any orphaned
04:36
children in the project.
04:38
We'll talk about how you can find that kind of thing
04:41
though in an auditing report that we have in a later lesson.
04:46
Now, let's talk about aligning components.
04:50
So one of my favorite tools, and it's so fast and easy
04:52
to make things clean and nicely set up inside of your project,
04:56
is the align command.
04:58
If I right-click on a component and choose align,
05:00
that component becomes the master.
05:02
I can then choose all downstream components
05:06
that I want lined up with it and they all perfectly line up.
05:11
Really easy command, but such a time saver.
05:14
And clean up is so much better than with the projects
05:17
when you utilize a command like that.
05:20
Now, the other fun command that is not actually located
05:24
in the Marking menus is the toggle Normally
05:27
Open, Normally Closed.
05:28
If I have a device that is normally open,
05:32
but I want it to toggle to a normally closed,
05:35
I can utilize this command.
05:40
And I have to turn my snap off to be able to grab it.
05:44
And it not only draws that line through it,
05:47
but it actually swaps the entire block from a normally open
05:50
to a normally closed symbol.
05:51
And the parent device will now be
05:53
updated to say that is normally closed
05:56
instead of normally open.
05:57
I can swap it back, but it's actually
05:59
updating all of that information in the background
06:01
and tracking what that device's settings are.
06:05
So those are all of our most basic editing tools.
06:09
Please take a moment to do the basic editing exercise.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:08
Now, you've learned how to insert wires, components, set
00:12
up your projects.
00:13
Let's talk about some of the most basic editing tools
00:16
that we need to use from time to time whenever
00:19
we're in these projects.
00:20
They are very simple and easy to find.
00:22
You can get them from the Schematic tab
00:25
of the ribbon inside the Edit components area here.
00:29
Or they're very easy to grab from that right-click
00:33
in the marking menus that we have
00:34
in all of the different types of components.
00:37
So the most basic one of all is move.
00:38
If I want to move a component and I
00:42
want to pick it up and move it to another spot, that's
00:45
a move if I want to just adjust it on the wire
00:48
it's attached to, that's to scoot.
00:50
So we're going to take both of those in separate pieces.
00:53
So first let's take a look at scoot.
00:55
If I were to right-click on this component and choose scoot,
00:59
I can slide it along that wire.
01:02
Now, I can't jump over another component.
01:04
It's leaving it attached.
01:06
All it's literally doing is allowing you to just adjust
01:09
its spacing a bit.
01:10
Not moving its attachments, not changing its tagging
01:13
information, just sliding it so that you can gain more space.
01:17
Just like we did with wires, this
01:19
allows us to scoot that object to just gain a bit more space
01:23
or adjustment of centering things like that of alignment
01:27
that we want to have on the drawing.
01:28
So if I were to scoot this over, notice
01:30
that because of my settings for centering the wire number,
01:33
it automatically adjusted the wire numbers
01:35
to recenter themselves with a new location of that object.
01:39
Now, I am actually going to make my drawing a bit
01:44
messier so you can see another tool that we have called align.
01:48
We will do that in just a second.
01:50
The one other type of scoot I want to show you
01:52
is the ability to scoot an entire rung.
01:55
If I grab this rung anywhere I want on it,
01:57
the whole thing will select and I can now scoop this up
01:60
and down the bus lines.
02:02
So it's still attached to the bus lines,
02:04
but if I come down and grab it and say
02:06
I want it to go down to 416, it then drops its whole self down
02:09
there and then updates any components
02:12
that need to be re-tagged.
02:13
And we'll look for any associated components
02:16
that need to be updated in the panel like you see here.
02:19
Now, I am going to task this because I'm
02:21
going to show you the task list as another option for editing
02:25
in a second.
02:29
That was scoot.
02:30
Let's talk about move.
02:32
If I want to pick this whole push button up
02:34
that I was just scooting, I'm going to use the marking menu,
02:37
grab move component, and then adjust that over to line 421.
02:43
I can place it here and it automatically then updates
02:46
that tag and wants to look for any related panel devices.
02:51
And, again, I'm going to task it.
02:53
So that's the difference between scooting it and moving it.
02:56
This obviously healed the wires over here.
02:59
It now dropped it down to just one single wire number
03:02
instead of the two because there's no longer
03:03
an object splitting it.
03:05
And it automatically came over here and trimmed the wires
03:07
and then split these wire numbers.
03:09
So if you think about all of that
03:11
manually, if you were to go back to just use a standard AutoCAD
03:14
move, that's going to be a lot more work
03:16
for you to do to clean up to make sure that you don't now
03:18
have errors in your project.
03:20
Really important to use these editing tools.
03:24
Copy works the same way.
03:26
If I want to make a copy of this same component
03:29
I right-click and copy component.
03:31
I can then come down, place it on my rung.
03:37
It opens up the dialogue box and gives me
03:39
all of the same information about that component
03:42
except that the component tag has been
03:44
updated to its new location.
03:46
You want to make sure you do that so you
03:48
don't have duplicate tags.
03:50
You don't want two push button 421s.
03:56
And now it's looking for item numbers
03:58
and actually checking that it's seeing some re-sequencing.
04:01
Now, if we need to delete a component,
04:04
we also do that through those tools.
04:07
Please do not hit the Delete key on your keyboard.
04:10
Really common thing that people do out of AutoCAD,
04:13
not something we want to do in electrical
04:15
because that will not then update the background database
04:18
information that keeps electrical so intelligent.
04:21
So we would right-click instead on the device
04:23
and hit Delete component.
04:25
Now, it wants to look for any children that might
04:27
be associated with this device.
04:29
Obviously, I just copied this one,
04:31
I'm not going to look for that right now,
04:33
but you definitely want to make sure you
04:34
do that so you don't leave any orphaned
04:36
children in the project.
04:38
We'll talk about how you can find that kind of thing
04:41
though in an auditing report that we have in a later lesson.
04:46
Now, let's talk about aligning components.
04:50
So one of my favorite tools, and it's so fast and easy
04:52
to make things clean and nicely set up inside of your project,
04:56
is the align command.
04:58
If I right-click on a component and choose align,
05:00
that component becomes the master.
05:02
I can then choose all downstream components
05:06
that I want lined up with it and they all perfectly line up.
05:11
Really easy command, but such a time saver.
05:14
And clean up is so much better than with the projects
05:17
when you utilize a command like that.
05:20
Now, the other fun command that is not actually located
05:24
in the Marking menus is the toggle Normally
05:27
Open, Normally Closed.
05:28
If I have a device that is normally open,
05:32
but I want it to toggle to a normally closed,
05:35
I can utilize this command.
05:40
And I have to turn my snap off to be able to grab it.
05:44
And it not only draws that line through it,
05:47
but it actually swaps the entire block from a normally open
05:50
to a normally closed symbol.
05:51
And the parent device will now be
05:53
updated to say that is normally closed
05:56
instead of normally open.
05:57
I can swap it back, but it's actually
05:59
updating all of that information in the background
06:01
and tracking what that device's settings are.
06:05
So those are all of our most basic editing tools.
06:09
Please take a moment to do the basic editing exercise.
Project: Use Basic Editing Tools
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