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Coinciding with the acquisition of VIA Development, Nate joined Autodesk in March of 2003 after a decade stint as an entrepreneur following a two-decade stint as a controls engineer and software applications developer at Owens-Corning. Nate is now the lead product architect for AutoCAD Electrical. He loves this stuff.
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Component tagging by "Pick Order" in AutoCAD Electrical
March 16, 2007, 02:12 PM Nate HoltSometime you might want to quickly rough out a schematic design and fill in the details later. Popping in relays, switches, and such... you just want the basic symbol to pop in to the wire, untagged for now, and you don't want to have the normal "Edit component" dialog pop up to slow you down.
Easy to do in AutoCAD Electrical. Just toggle on the two items shown in the bottom left-hand corner of the Insert Component icon menu dialog (the AutoCAD Electrical 2008 version is shown below).
In a few moments, you lay out a quick concept schematic with no "details" dialog slow-down.
Later on - Making the tag-ID Assignments
Now, later on, you want to go back in and assign unique tag-ID's to the switches and relays. If you let AutoCAD Electrical do it in its automatic Re-tag Component mode, it will sort them and assign in order left-to-right / top-to-bottom. But you want to assign them in your own "pick order".
The current work-around is to manually edit each component and type in the new tag-ID. But wouldn't it be cool to just pick devices "in order" and have the next available tag-ID pop in automatically?!
The solution
We can do that with a very simple AutoLISP utility shown here. It makes one call into the AutoCAD Electrical API. Here's the utility:
Running it
Now, we APPLOAD it and type RETAGPICK [Enter] at the command line. Then we just "pick, pick, pick..." and in pop the next available tag-ID's in order!
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