1

- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
2
- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
3
- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
4
- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
5
- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
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- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
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- AutoCAD Electrical is one of the toolsets available in the One AutoCAD subscription. This
powerful AutoCAD toolset for electrical designers and engineers offers automated electrical
drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and data and schedules.This
is on top of all of the benefits the regular AutoCAD brings to the table. This course provides the
novice user with the training required to use the AutoCAD Electrical toolset quickly and
effectively. I'll take you through the user interface and lead you step by step through the
process of creating precise measured electrical drawings and schematics. You'll learn how to
design wiring diagrams, insert components and tunnels, use PLC symbols in ladder diagrams to
form point to point wiring and create custom symbols. I'll show you how to add annotations and
title blocks to drawings and run reports. I'll also show you how you can set up AutoCAD
Electrical to your liking by adjusting settings and customizing the builtin templates and how to
reuse, copy, export and verify drawings for future electrical projects.
8
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.

9
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.

10
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
11
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.

12
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
13
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
14
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
15
- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
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- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
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- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
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- When you work in regular AutoCAD you select an object, you right click, and it brings up the
context sensitive right-click shortcut menu. And you can do things like move, copy, and
rotateand obviously go to the properties of that object. When you're working in AutoCAD
Electricalwhen you select an object and right-click it's very different. It brings up this thing called
the right-click marking menu. And I'm going to explain that in a moment just before we do that
though you'll see that we've got a different drawing open it's called demo02.dwg and like in
previous videos in this chapter please don't worry about downloading any drawings or projects
from the library. I'm taking you through some of the functionality of the software so that you
know what to do when we start working through other chapters and other videos in the
course. So in our demo02.dwg file I'm going to zoom in here on this top left area of thisthree
phase circuit schematic drawing. And you'll notice there that we've got FU207. It's a fuse and
you'll see we've got three, five amp fuses going across that three phase circuit. Now normally if I
select an object you'll see the grips appear or if it's a block you'll see one grip appear. Now the
blocks are very different in AutoCAD Electrical they're almost intelligent with lots of different
attributes and they link to databases in the AutoCAD Electrical project. So you see there's lots
of grips there now if I just right-click now away from that what you'll find is did you see a little
flash there of what looked like bubbles? And all of a sudden the fuse is not selected
anymore. Now this is very much a slight of hand and a very different method of using your right-
click on your mouse. You hover over the object so it highlights. You then right-click and hold and
there's your marking menu. So I'm holding down the right-click. I'm not releasing it yet and then
what I do is I move and it highlights each of the areas in the marking menu that I can utilize. So I
might want to, for example, edit the component. So I'll hover over it, it goes that pale blue. I then
release the right-click and the insert edit component dialog box comes up. I click on okay, job
done and it is now deselected and dehighlighted. Let's go through that one more time, this right-
click marking menu is really important. It's a technique you must get the hang of otherwise
you're just not going to get along with AutoCAD Electrical. So you hover over the object now
bear in mind this is an AutoCAD Electrical object it's a schematic component. You'll see there
it's a block reference. It is a block but it's a special AutoCAD electrical block. So you hover over
it, get the highlight. Right-click and hold and there's your marking menu. So what I could do now
is I could use something like scoot which we do cover later so I'll hover over scoot with my
pointer and release the mouse button. So now you'll see, look, it has me sort of constrained
along that wire. So I can move that fuse along the wire and then I left-click where I want it to
go. And can you see there it says scoot linked components.I'll okay that and it just moves it
along automatically and I'm now still in the scoot command with the pick box. Look at the
command-line at the bottom. I then just press enter to finish and I'm out of the scoot
command. But can you see how important that marking menu is. It's a right-click and a hold to
bring up the marking menu. You then hover over what you want on the marking menu and
release the right-click and it's all in the hand movement and it's really important that you get to
grips with it. So that's the right-click marking menu in AutoCAD Electrical.
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