From the course: AutoCAD Electrical Essential Training
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Use the DIN Rail command
From the course: AutoCAD Electrical Essential Training
Use the DIN Rail command
- [Instructor] One of the nice things with AutCAD Electrical is in your panel drawings, you can actually add DIN rails, and actually attach these terminal strips to DIN rails to give you a visualization of what it actually looks like in the cabinet when you actually install it in the real world. So what we're going to do, we're going to open up the cabinet drawing, now. So we're still in the power drawing at the moment. Cabinet drawing's over here in the project manager, there's cabinet drawing there. Double click on it and you'll see there's already a terminal strip there, and a DIN rail there as well, there's the DIN rail there. So what we're going to do, we're going to zoom in on that top right corner, and you can see there that we want to place another DIN rail. I'm going to place one down here somewhere, and then we're going to dd the terminal strip to it. Now in order to add a DIN rail, it's very simple. You go to the insert component footprints panel on the panel tab, click on…
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