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Form-C, SPDT).1 AutoCAD Electrical Symbol Libraries AutoCAD Electrical 2005 Symbol file names should conform to the AutoCAD Electrical naming convention. For example, HLT1G.dwg is a horizontally-wired pilot light parent symbol in green, while VCR22.dwg is a vertically-wired control relay child contact normally-closed, and HCR23.dwg is a horizontally-wired control relay child contact changeover style (a.k.a. Hint:Over time it will become second nature to find symbol files by their name, because the file naming convention has a rhyme and reason to it. All it does during a library swap is replace the blocks on the drawings with blocks by the same name, but from a different library folder.

Keeping all symbols for one library in one folder makes it easier for AutoCAD Electrical to perform a library swap. You create categories and sub categories to your liking. The Icon Menu is the place to categorize components. It will be very complicated if I expect it to search subfolders inside subfolders. When I click to insert a block from the Icon Menu, AutoCAD Electrical will search the schematic library list in order from top to bottom until it finds the block specified by the icon I clicked. I place this folder first in the schematic list, in case I have copied one of the stock symbols into my custom symbols folder and made changes. Like Brad said, it is best to keep custom symbols in a common folder. We really don’t just on folder filled with a bunch of files of lis every floder in the project settings.

Setting our Library in a different configuration.

Getting the Schematic Library path to search all sub folders.

I tried adding a * to the end of our Schematic Library path hoping it would pick up all the sub folders but this didn’t work. I believe this is due to our folder structure. Again for the horizontal this works fine but when I tested the vertical symbols the symbol isn’t found. The parent horizontal was selected for the Icon menu with the WD_3UNIT in front of it. Today I build a horizontal and vertical parent and child symbols. This all works out ok for single Icon menu items where you can browse right to the file. This folded has many sub folders in it based on the family type of the component. In addition to this our company has added a folder for custom built symbols. Our system is set up with the standard AutoCAD Electrical symbols on our network.

I ran into a bit of a Schematic Library path issue today.