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Task: Copy an Existing Project Drawing Set and Automatically Update Title Blocks
This sample project is a small set of inter-related schematic and panel layout drawings. The study task is to copy each drawing to
a new name and update each drawing’s title block. This represents the first step in the common practice starting a new design by
copying and renaming drawings from an existing design.
Steps
1. Copy each drawing to a new folder and rename the file name.
2. Open each drawing and edit the attribute values on the title block to reference
information related to the new project.
Study Results
In basic AutoCAD, you have to manually copy, paste, and rename each filename to
the updated project nomenclature. Once complete, one of the title blocks must be
edited, and then copied to the remaining project drawings, each of which must be
edited manually and saved.
In AutoCAD Electrical, the copy project command manages the copying of files,
find/replace style renaming of file names, and creates a unique project folder.
Updating of title block information is highly customizable, and automatically
cycles through the entire drawing set, saving updating information, without
having to open, edit, and save individual drawings manually. To complete this task
in AutoCAD, 84 commands were accessed and more than 300 picks/clicks and
keystrokes were done. Using AutoCAD Electrical resulted in a
73% time savings over basic AutoCAD.
Advantages of AutoCAD Electrical
• Reduce repetitious and time-consuming renaming of DWG files and title block information
• As your drawing set increases, so does your overall time savings when using the Copy Project command in AutoCAD Electrical
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Reuse Existing Drawings
Productivity Gain* AutoCAD AutoCAD Electrical
Number of Commands Utilized 7 3
Number of Times Commands Were Accessed 84 3
Total Number of User Picks, Clicks, Keystrokes 382 53
Total Time to Complete Task (minutes, seconds) 6:30 1:45
Time Saving with AutoCAD Electrical — 73%
Get a head start on your design projects by reusing drawings from another
project. Make a copy of a specific part, or reuse an entire drawing set when
starting a new design. Save commonly used circuits for reuse in future designs.
AutoCAD Electrical automatically renumbers the wires and devices to match the
configuration of the current drawing or project in which they are placed. You can
also reduce design time and errors by retagging all components in a project with
a single command.
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