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Adding receptacles

Adding receptacles - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial

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Adding receptacles

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Finally we get to actually add some components to our drawing. Because we know how to physically set up our drawing environment, we know we won't have any visibility surprises once we start placing these items. The objective of this video is to add receptacles to some of our rooms. We'll first add them individually, then we'll specify a lay out and a count to add these little guys to an entire room automatically. So to get started, let's jump into our MEP-Electrical drawing, or whatever drawing you're working with. Let's make sure that our work space switching is set to Electrical. I'm going to zoom in on this room up here. I'm interested in these three rooms. I'm going to go to my tool pallets electrical and I'm going to go to my Power Lighting Device tab. The first electrical I'm going to grab is just going to be Duplex. Now if we look at our command prompt, we'll see we have a bunch of choices. We're going to set a few choices now. Type al and hit enter. This will align our fixture…

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