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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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Enhancing AutoCAD Electrical's Tabular Terminal Strip Layout
March 7, 2007, 03:50 PM Nate HoltThis morning an urgent note showed up in the inbox... dealer visiting a customer site and they needed cable catalog information included in AutoCAD Electrical's tabular terminal strip layout representation. This is what is inserted from the Terminal Strip Editor > Preview tab shown below.
Out-of-the-box, AutoCAD Electrical neatly displays cable tag and core color in this table but doesn't include the cable catalog number.
Some calls into AutoCAD Electrical's API (Application Program Interface) and we had a work-around. The user runs a small AutoLISP utility, windows the tabular terminal strip, and the catalog info pops in.
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After:
Here's the ASCII text AutoLISP utility (download a copy here).
How does this thing work?
Step 1: gets the active project's scratch database file name
Step 2: queries the COMP table and gathers all cable marker parents with non-blank CAT values
Step 3: prompts user to select row(s) to process
Step 4: processes each row, one at a time, looks for target cable name attributes
Step 4a: For each cable name attribute value, searches the queried data for a match
Step 4b: on a match, appends the mfg/cat info on to the tag attribute and writes it back out to the row
To Use:
1. APPLOAD the attached AutoLisp utility
2. With tabular terminal strip shown on active drawing, type ADD_CABLE_CAT [Enter] at the AutoCAD command line.
3. Select rows you want to process or window the whole tabular terminal strip representation. It should update.
Note: this won't work on the "table" version of the terminal strip layout, only works on the 2nd radio button version shown in the first image above. Maybe check future posting for the "table" version or, be bold, and modify the above program to work on the table version ( ! ).
Enhancements:
Here's an idea. Modify the "row block" and add in a separate set of attributes for the cable from/to mfg and catalog attribute values. Write to these instead of appending the catalog info to the cable tag attribute value. Would look neater!
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