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Use the Copy Catalog Assignment

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Use the Copy Catalog Assignment

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- [Instructor] Once again, you'll noticed I've stayed in the demo oh four .dwg file. I've zoomed out slightly, though, because I want to look at these three components here, ram oh one, ram oh two, ram oh three. Now what I want to look at is copying the catalog assignment. Now when you install AutoCAD electrical, you can install numerous manufacturer's catalog databases, and those catalog database numbers relate to the blocks with the intelligent attributes that represent those components on the drawing. Now if I got to the LS 1000, hover over it, right click and hold and go to edit component, you'll see here in the component data, there's the catalog data so the manufacturer is MS, catalog MS 50 L. So that's our catalog assignment there. I'm going to click on OK for that now and just leave it as it is. Now maybe, just maybe, I want to change that value. Now I can change it manually, or I can actually assign a different catalog assignment from the catalog. So what I would do there is…

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