When you're working with ladders, you can extend the ladder and add more rungs. This video shows you how to do that.
- [Instructor] We're staying in the demo 10.DWG file in the WD demo project and what we're going to do now is look at adding some rungs to our ladder. I can guarantee when you're working in your electrical drawings your ladders will never be long enough and never have enough rungs, so you need to add a rung to the ladder and renumber accordingly and maybe add a rung to go across between the two reference points on the ladder as well. So we're still zoomed in at the top of our ladder right now, up at 1000 and there's one of the wires that I added in the previous video. So I'm just going to roll back on the wheel a little bit, pan upwards and zoom in on the bottom three or four rungs of the ladder like that. So you see at the moment our ladder is ending at that 10 11 reference point. Now what I want to do is I want to add a new reference at the bottom of that so that we've got 10 12. So what we do there is go to the schematic tab on the ribbon and enter the edit wires wire numbers panel. And I'm going to click on this little fly out menu here and you can see that we can add a rung, we can revise a ladder, or we can renumber our ladder referencing if we want to. You want revise ladder first, okay. Now at the moment, our rung spacing is 0.75 of an inch, it's an imperial drawing, the rung count is 12, and the reference start is 1000. Now the index is one, which means it's like 1000, 1001, 1002 and the wire number format there is basically percent end. So it's just showing the number of the wire there on the ladder. Now I'm going to change the rung count to 13. So I'm adding an extra rung, so when I click on okay, what you'll find is the reference appears. There's the 10 12 that I wanted. Now what we need to do is in order to add our rung going across we need to extend our ladder. So I just click here, click on the grip, drag it down a little, take it down to that point there. Hit escape, deselect, do the same the other side, click on the grip again and come down, and again these don't have to be perfect but I've just tried to make sure that they match there so I'll hit escape so they kind of match going across. It doesn't matter as long as they intersect with our 10 12 here. So now I go back up to edit wires and wire numbers, click on the same fly out again and select add rung. So this adds a ladder rung at the line reference nearest to a point you select inside the ladder so you can see there with the little diagram this 402 and then there's the red wire 402 going across. Click on add rung and then taking your crosshair, line it in so it's near the 20 12 but it has to be inside the ladder vertical line so if I just click about there, you'll see there's my extra rung on my ladder. Now the good thing is you can add as many as you like because what you could have done there is taken that number of rungs to a much higher number, dragged the lines down further, the vertical lines, and added even more rungs if you wanted to. But that's how quick and easy it is to add a rung to an existing ladder in your AutoCAD schematic drawings in AutoCAD electrical. Just hit escape a couple of times to make sure though that you have come out of the command as well. But that's how you add rungs to your ladder, nice and quick and easy.
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3/25/2020Released
3/27/2019- Navigating the AutoCAD Electrical interface
- Inserting, editing, and numbering wires
- Using 3-phase ladders and components
- Using the Circuit Clipboard and Circuit Builder
- Editing, moving, copying, and deleting components
- Copying installation and location code values
- Inserting terminals and jumpers
- Using PLC symbols
- Inserting connectors for point-to-point wiring
- Creating custom symbols
- Setting up title blocks
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Using the exercise files2m 14s
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1. Explore the AutoCAD Electrical User Interface
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Right-click marking menu3m 45s
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The AutoCAD Project Manager4m 30s
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Drafting Settings dialog box3m 32s
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2. Manage Files and Projects
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Open projects2m 11s
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Open drawings2m 7s
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3. Navigate in the Drawing
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Use zoom and pan2m 17s
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Use the mouse2m 31s
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4. Work in a Project
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5. Schematics: Single Wires and Components
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Use ladders in a drawing4m 11s
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Insert and edit wires5m 32s
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Add rungs to ladders3m 21s
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Number wires3m 30s
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6. Schematics: Multiwiring and Circuits
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Use dashed link lines4m 23s
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3-phase ladders4m 5s
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Multiple Wire Bus dialog2m 42s
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Number 3-phase wiring3m 12s
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Use cable markers3m 22s
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WBLOCK circuits2m 53s
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Work with saved circuits3m 12s
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Copy and move a circuit3m 47s
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Use the Circuit Clipboard2m 51s
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Use the Circuit Builder2m 55s
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7. AutoCAD Electrical Editing Commands
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Edit with the marking menu3m 47s
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Use the Project Task List3m 19s
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Use the SCOOT command1m 51s
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Move components1m 39s
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Copy components1m 24s
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Align components2m 30s
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Delete components2m 44s
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8. Work with Panel Drawings
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Edit panel footprints3m 29s
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9. Work with Terminals
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Insert jumper terminals2m 51s
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Create a jumper chart3m 40s
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Use the DIN Rail command6m 6s
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10. Use PLC Symbols
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Insert a PLC (parametric)3m 55s
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Insert a PLC (full units)3m 59s
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Insert PLC I/O points2m 51s
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Tag PLC symbols3m 1s
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11. Use Point-to-Point Wiring
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Use and insert splices2m 30s
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Bend wires3m 17s
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12. Create Custom Symbols
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The Symbol Builder4m 43s
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Insert standard attributes4m 24s
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Save the new symbol3m 16s
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Insert the new symbol3m 19s
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13. AutoCAD Electrical Titleblocks
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Update titleblocks5m 10s
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Working with revision clouds3m 42s
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14. Report in AutoCAD Electrical
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Save to external files5m 45s
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Put reports on drawings3m 33s
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Configure report templates4m 21s
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Run automatic reports5m 25s
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15. Settings and Templates
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Set project properties4m 37s
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Set drawing properties1m 45s
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Set up a template file2m 26s
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16. Use Drawing Update Tools
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Update and retag projects2m 27s
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Use project-wide utilities1m 28s
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Plot projects2m 29s
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Copy a project3m 8s
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Swap and update blocks3m 44s
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Mark and verify drawings3m 55s
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17. New Features
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Conclusion
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Next steps49s
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