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Configuring electrical objects - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD MEP Essential Training
Configuring electrical objects
It's time to look at the Style Manager. Let's venture into more actual display options and check this thing out. The objective here is to create a new drawing. Then we're going to switch our workspace to electrical. We're going to draw some cable tray, and we're going to check how we can control the rise drop symbology and add different blocks to some of this cable tray. Let's jump in to AutoCAD. Let's go to Get Started, and we're going to start a drawing using template. We're going to go to AECB model, US Imperial.CTB. Now what I want to do is down under our workspace switching, I want to click the drop down, and let's switch to electrical. With our electrical workspace current let's go to the manage tab. Now under the manage tab we have the Style Manager. Let's hit the drop down and go with the Style Manager. Notice that we can manage the style of almost every single object in our model. Before we mess with it though, let's close out and model some cable tray. Let's go to our tool…
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