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Insert Component (Manufacturer Menu)

Insert Component (Manufacturer Menu)

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Insert Component (Manufacturer Menu)

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- [Instructor] As usual, we're staying in the DEMO08.DWG panel drawing file and you can see the two push buttons that we've added to the panel drawing here, and here. Now these need enclosures like this green enclosure here. There is the Power On button. Now what we want to do is use the same enclosure. Now I'm going to use a different method to get the enclosure into the drawing, but first of all we need to know the manufacturer and the catalog lookup, etc. So, I'm going to hover over it, do the usual right click and hold, and go to Edit Footprint on the Marking Menu. Soon as I do that, I can see it's an AB 800T X59E Really you just need to remember AB 800T for now. So, I'll okay that for now like so. I then go up to the panel tab on the ribbon, into the Insert Component Footprints, click on the fly-out, and I'll want Manufacturer Menu this time. This'll insert a panel footprint using a manufacturer-specific icon menu. So, if I go to Manufacturer Menu now, what'll happen is it will…

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