About Wires; Inserting Wires - Autodesk AUTOCAD ELECTRICAL 2005 Getting Started

About Wires

An AutoCAD Electrical wire is an AutoCAD line entity on an AutoCAD
Electrical wire layer. The wire layer for a new wire segment is determined by:
■ Wires that begin or end in space or begin and end at a component
connection point, are put on the current layer (if it's a wire layer) or on
the first wire layer AutoCAD Electrical finds in a layer name search.
■ Wires that begin at an existing wire take on the same layer as the
beginning wire.
■ Wires that begin in space or at a component and end at an existing wire
take on the layer of the ending wire.

Inserting Wires

You can start or end a wire segment in empty space, from an existing wire
segment, or from an existing component. If you start from a component, the
wire segment snaps to the wire connection terminal closest to your pick
point on that symbol. If the wire segment ends at another wire segment, a
DOT (block name wddot.dwg) is applied if appropriate. If it ends at another
component, the segment connects to the wire connection terminal closest to
your pick point on that symbol.
To insert single phase wiring
1 Click the Project tool to open the aegs project.
Menu
2 In the Project dialog box, Project Drawing List section, double-click
demo04.dwg to open the drawing.
3 Zoom in on the upper left corner of the drawing.
4 Click the Add Rung tool.
Menu
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8 Chapter 1 Wires
Projects ➤ Project ➤ Project New/Existing
Wires ➤ Add Rung