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Source and destination signal arrows

Source and destination signal arrows

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Source and destination signal arrows

- [Instructor] We're staying in our demo10.dwg file in our our WD demo project. And what I'm going to show you now is how to add source arrows and destination arrows to your drawings, when you're working with your components, your wires, your ladders and so on. So what you can do here in your drawing is add a source arrow that defines a wire connection in one place on your drawing and then you can add a destination arrow somewhere else on the drawing. So basically you're not takin' a great big wire all the way from one corner of the drawing, to the other corner of the drawing. What you're doing is you're telling AutoCAD Electrical, that I want the wire to start in one place and then go to another place. Now the other benefit of that is you can do that across drawings too. You can put a source arrow on one drawing and then a destination arrow on another drawing. And you can edit those at any time. And the nice thing is, the database in AutoCAD Electrical will rewire tag those, should…

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