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Insert the new symbol

Insert the new symbol

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Insert the new symbol

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- [Instructor] Before we started creating our custom symbol we made sure that our PROJECT004 was open. So, it's open over here in the PROJECT MANAGER, and we've got two drawings available. Double-click on the Control.dwg file to open that up in the drawing area, and then just double-click on the wheel to Zoom Extents. Now, we're going to zoom in to the location of number 220. Now, if you look at your rungs on your ladder here, there's 220 there, it's on the left-hand ladder. So, just maybe pan and zoom in a bit. Now we need to add a rung to our ladder first of all. So what we're going to do here is go to Edit Wires/Wire Numbers on the Schematic tab on the ribbon, click on the flyout here, and add a rung. Now what we need to do is click inside the ladder, and click there, and there's our rung, and it's inserted it at rung 220. So we can just zoom out ever so slightly now, and you can see that rung going across. Now, what we're going to do, is we're going to go to the Icon Menu Insert…

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