Integrated BIM tools, including Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D
Professional CAD/CAM tools built on Inventor and AutoCAD
Any referenced datasets can be downloaded from "Module downloads" in the module overview.
Transcript
00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:08
Now, let's talk about terminals.
00:10
Terminals are another form of standard component
00:12
that we have with AutoCAD Electrical,
00:14
but there's a lot of additional information and nuances
00:17
that we can do with our terminals.
00:19
And the first thing I'm going to do
00:21
that's different than the last couple of times
00:23
we've gone to the Icon menu, is I'm
00:25
going to take the opportunity to do a multiple insert.
00:28
So if you look in our insert components panel here,
00:32
there is this multiple insert option.
00:34
It will launch the same dialog box
00:36
that we saw when we hit Inserts from the Icon menu,
00:41
but this time we actually have the ability to fenceline
00:45
draw where we want multiple components to be inserted.
00:48
It's a very fast way to add a lot of components at one time.
00:52
And terminals happen to be the type of components
00:54
we insert a lot of at one time.
00:57
So now let's talk about terminals in general.
00:59
They are located right in the middle of the Icon menu.
01:04
And we have five different standard terminal
01:06
types that it comes with.
01:08
So in shape form, it's obviously square, round, hexagon,
01:12
diamond, or triangle.
01:14
Now, within every shape type, there
01:16
are four different kinds of terminals so we'll just
01:19
take square as an example.
01:21
Square by itself with nothing else on it
01:24
is what we would call a dummy terminal.
01:26
It's intelligent enough to break the wire,
01:28
but it doesn't carry any information on it
01:31
to make it an intelligent symbol.
01:33
It's really a placeholder.
01:34
The next one over is square with wire number,
01:37
this type of terminal takes on the wire number
01:42
of the wire it's inserted on.
01:44
It does not force a wire number change
01:46
as that wire passes through the terminal.
01:49
The next one takes on whatever value we want to give it.
01:53
A terminal number to be able to identify that terminal width,
01:56
but still does not force a wire number change
01:58
as it passes through it.
01:60
The final one carries a terminal number
02:03
as well as forcing a wire number change
02:05
as that wire passes through it.
02:08
Those are the four different kinds of terminals.
02:10
And that is true for all of the five different styles.
02:14
Now, I'm going to choose the one that I
02:16
want to use in this example, which I'm going to choose
02:18
diamond with a wire number.
02:21
And it's going to ask me where do I want to fenceline.
02:24
So if you've ever drawn the fence tool within core AutoCAD,
02:28
this is allowing me to draw right through my wires.
02:31
Now, you may want to turn Ortho on so that you can make
02:34
sure they're lined up straight.
02:36
And then as I cut across it, it will not
02:38
insert because it's not crossing any wires when I go across.
02:43
So I can actually make a bit of a U-shape
02:46
here to an upside-down U, to be able to get all of the fence
02:50
points that I need.
02:52
Now, it's going to first drop the very first one
02:54
in from where I started to cross the wires.
02:56
And it will ask me, do I want to keep this one
02:58
or do I want to skip to the next.
02:60
I'll say, OK.
03:01
And then it opens up my insert terminal dialog box.
03:05
If your dialog box looks like this,
03:08
it's just because it's the first time you've ever opened it.
03:10
Make sure you click that little details button here
03:13
and you'll see an expanded terminal symbol box.
03:16
Now, this is different than our standard insert
03:18
at its component dialog box because there's
03:21
a lot of things unique to terminals built
03:23
into this particular menu.
03:27
First of all, we would want to talk about what location code
03:29
it's going on and what tag strip it's a part of.
03:32
Now, by default, it's choosing the tag strip TB that I have.
03:36
I can see a list of all of my existing terminal strips here
03:41
and the tags associated with those terminal strips, hence
03:43
tag strip.
03:45
If I take a look at those and I see
03:47
that I want to add it to an existing terminal strip
03:49
I could do that or I could start a brand
03:52
new terminal strip name, which I'm going to call mine T-demo.
03:56
Then my location code, I can either
03:58
browse for what location code I want to use
04:01
or I can just use what's existing in that dialog box.
04:04
Perhaps it was already pre-setup from the last time
04:06
I inserted terminals.
04:07
Now, the next thing to do is actually
04:09
choose the manufacturers that you want.
04:11
This particular terminal that's currently here
04:13
is just a single level terminal.
04:16
Perhaps you want to use a multilevel terminal.
04:19
If I go to catalog lookup and I search on all terminals--
04:25
so I'm just going to back this out--
04:27
and give a search for everything,
04:29
you can actually see all of the different terminal
04:31
types that exist in here.
04:33
And I can even search on things like multi-level.
04:36
So in this search dialogue, it's a bit like a Google search
04:39
where you can just type whatever you're looking for.
04:41
And I can say I want to find all multi-level terminals,
04:47
so that's going to search any column that I have here
04:50
to find that particular phrase inside any of these fields.
04:59
So I'm going to search through.
05:00
I can scroll, you can see all the multi-levels
05:02
that are listed in here.
05:04
And I'm going to grab this [INAUDIBLE] one.
05:13
And it'll notice, if for some reason
05:15
I had an item number already in here,
05:17
which I did because I cleared out the earlier terminal
05:20
and I see the item number needs to be updated,
05:23
it will automatically message me for that.
05:26
So it's going to clear it and tell me that I
05:27
could add a new item number.
05:29
We'll talk about item numbers when we actually
05:31
get to our panel drawings, but just start
05:33
keeping in mind that you could be editing
05:35
and utilizing item numbers even in your schematic placement.
05:38
Now, if you notice, this was a three-level terminal.
05:43
So I now have a top, middle, and bottom set up to this.
05:48
And I can start adding terminals to this
05:50
to be associated as this multilevel terminal type.
05:54
If I click OK on here and I say that I want to--
05:58
I'm not going to map the symbol as we talked about.
06:00
My favorite part about the multi-add
06:02
is I can say keep all, don't ask.
06:05
And I can uncheck the show edit dialog box.
06:08
Because what it's going to do is it's
06:09
actually going to add all that same information
06:11
to every single terminal that it's placing.
06:14
So it's all been copied in there.
06:15
It's a very fast way to add multiple components
06:18
at one time.
06:19
I don't need to hide the tags or the installations.
06:22
I'm going to leave those open, but that is an option.
06:26
And now you'll see it.
06:27
Place all of those terminals and the information
06:33
that we have on those.
06:35
Done.
06:35
Easy is that and we have all of those terminals now placed.
06:38
Now, we can here then start to edit our terminals.
06:42
So we can add information to these terminals.
06:45
By right-clicking on them, you can see the different terminal
06:48
editing options.
06:50
So there is association of terminals,
06:52
there is jumper information, and then
06:55
there's a few other additions to those association and jumpers.
06:58
Things like breaking those associations apart and then
07:01
even copying terminal properties.
07:04
Now, associating terminals is what's
07:05
allows us to define the multi-level terminals.
07:09
In the schematics, they don't look multilevel.
07:11
They look like individual terminals,
07:13
but when we associate them to each other,
07:15
they become a part of that multilevel terminal.
07:18
So, for instance, if I were to connect--
07:24
and I am going to just go in here and grab associate.
07:28
If I were to grab this terminal and this terminal and hit
07:35
Enter, you don't see it happen on screen,
07:38
it was happening down in the command prompt,
07:40
but when I right-click on it and I edit this component,
07:44
I can now see that 603 and
07:48
the levels of these terminals.
07:50
So they now know that is not just
07:52
its own independent terminal.
07:54
It's a part of this multilevel terminal.
07:57
Now, if I was actually jumpering something together,
08:01
we don't see the little jumper so people ask me about that.
08:03
You could draw a loop if you wanted to,
08:06
but we define that in the actual properties of the terminals.
08:10
And then we can drive jumper charts
08:12
and other kinds of reporting tools like that
08:14
out in the panel drawings.
08:16
So if I were to right-click on this terminal
08:18
and I were to come down and say, Edit Jumper,
08:21
I can then choose this terminal and this terminal.
08:25
Hit Enter and you will see that they are jumpered together.
08:27
And then I can actually add catalog information
08:31
to that jumper.
08:33
Please take a moment to do the insert terminals
08:36
and edit terminals exercise.
Video transcript
00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:08
Now, let's talk about terminals.
00:10
Terminals are another form of standard component
00:12
that we have with AutoCAD Electrical,
00:14
but there's a lot of additional information and nuances
00:17
that we can do with our terminals.
00:19
And the first thing I'm going to do
00:21
that's different than the last couple of times
00:23
we've gone to the Icon menu, is I'm
00:25
going to take the opportunity to do a multiple insert.
00:28
So if you look in our insert components panel here,
00:32
there is this multiple insert option.
00:34
It will launch the same dialog box
00:36
that we saw when we hit Inserts from the Icon menu,
00:41
but this time we actually have the ability to fenceline
00:45
draw where we want multiple components to be inserted.
00:48
It's a very fast way to add a lot of components at one time.
00:52
And terminals happen to be the type of components
00:54
we insert a lot of at one time.
00:57
So now let's talk about terminals in general.
00:59
They are located right in the middle of the Icon menu.
01:04
And we have five different standard terminal
01:06
types that it comes with.
01:08
So in shape form, it's obviously square, round, hexagon,
01:12
diamond, or triangle.
01:14
Now, within every shape type, there
01:16
are four different kinds of terminals so we'll just
01:19
take square as an example.
01:21
Square by itself with nothing else on it
01:24
is what we would call a dummy terminal.
01:26
It's intelligent enough to break the wire,
01:28
but it doesn't carry any information on it
01:31
to make it an intelligent symbol.
01:33
It's really a placeholder.
01:34
The next one over is square with wire number,
01:37
this type of terminal takes on the wire number
01:42
of the wire it's inserted on.
01:44
It does not force a wire number change
01:46
as that wire passes through the terminal.
01:49
The next one takes on whatever value we want to give it.
01:53
A terminal number to be able to identify that terminal width,
01:56
but still does not force a wire number change
01:58
as it passes through it.
01:60
The final one carries a terminal number
02:03
as well as forcing a wire number change
02:05
as that wire passes through it.
02:08
Those are the four different kinds of terminals.
02:10
And that is true for all of the five different styles.
02:14
Now, I'm going to choose the one that I
02:16
want to use in this example, which I'm going to choose
02:18
diamond with a wire number.
02:21
And it's going to ask me where do I want to fenceline.
02:24
So if you've ever drawn the fence tool within core AutoCAD,
02:28
this is allowing me to draw right through my wires.
02:31
Now, you may want to turn Ortho on so that you can make
02:34
sure they're lined up straight.
02:36
And then as I cut across it, it will not
02:38
insert because it's not crossing any wires when I go across.
02:43
So I can actually make a bit of a U-shape
02:46
here to an upside-down U, to be able to get all of the fence
02:50
points that I need.
02:52
Now, it's going to first drop the very first one
02:54
in from where I started to cross the wires.
02:56
And it will ask me, do I want to keep this one
02:58
or do I want to skip to the next.
02:60
I'll say, OK.
03:01
And then it opens up my insert terminal dialog box.
03:05
If your dialog box looks like this,
03:08
it's just because it's the first time you've ever opened it.
03:10
Make sure you click that little details button here
03:13
and you'll see an expanded terminal symbol box.
03:16
Now, this is different than our standard insert
03:18
at its component dialog box because there's
03:21
a lot of things unique to terminals built
03:23
into this particular menu.
03:27
First of all, we would want to talk about what location code
03:29
it's going on and what tag strip it's a part of.
03:32
Now, by default, it's choosing the tag strip TB that I have.
03:36
I can see a list of all of my existing terminal strips here
03:41
and the tags associated with those terminal strips, hence
03:43
tag strip.
03:45
If I take a look at those and I see
03:47
that I want to add it to an existing terminal strip
03:49
I could do that or I could start a brand
03:52
new terminal strip name, which I'm going to call mine T-demo.
03:56
Then my location code, I can either
03:58
browse for what location code I want to use
04:01
or I can just use what's existing in that dialog box.
04:04
Perhaps it was already pre-setup from the last time
04:06
I inserted terminals.
04:07
Now, the next thing to do is actually
04:09
choose the manufacturers that you want.
04:11
This particular terminal that's currently here
04:13
is just a single level terminal.
04:16
Perhaps you want to use a multilevel terminal.
04:19
If I go to catalog lookup and I search on all terminals--
04:25
so I'm just going to back this out--
04:27
and give a search for everything,
04:29
you can actually see all of the different terminal
04:31
types that exist in here.
04:33
And I can even search on things like multi-level.
04:36
So in this search dialogue, it's a bit like a Google search
04:39
where you can just type whatever you're looking for.
04:41
And I can say I want to find all multi-level terminals,
04:47
so that's going to search any column that I have here
04:50
to find that particular phrase inside any of these fields.
04:59
So I'm going to search through.
05:00
I can scroll, you can see all the multi-levels
05:02
that are listed in here.
05:04
And I'm going to grab this [INAUDIBLE] one.
05:13
And it'll notice, if for some reason
05:15
I had an item number already in here,
05:17
which I did because I cleared out the earlier terminal
05:20
and I see the item number needs to be updated,
05:23
it will automatically message me for that.
05:26
So it's going to clear it and tell me that I
05:27
could add a new item number.
05:29
We'll talk about item numbers when we actually
05:31
get to our panel drawings, but just start
05:33
keeping in mind that you could be editing
05:35
and utilizing item numbers even in your schematic placement.
05:38
Now, if you notice, this was a three-level terminal.
05:43
So I now have a top, middle, and bottom set up to this.
05:48
And I can start adding terminals to this
05:50
to be associated as this multilevel terminal type.
05:54
If I click OK on here and I say that I want to--
05:58
I'm not going to map the symbol as we talked about.
06:00
My favorite part about the multi-add
06:02
is I can say keep all, don't ask.
06:05
And I can uncheck the show edit dialog box.
06:08
Because what it's going to do is it's
06:09
actually going to add all that same information
06:11
to every single terminal that it's placing.
06:14
So it's all been copied in there.
06:15
It's a very fast way to add multiple components
06:18
at one time.
06:19
I don't need to hide the tags or the installations.
06:22
I'm going to leave those open, but that is an option.
06:26
And now you'll see it.
06:27
Place all of those terminals and the information
06:33
that we have on those.
06:35
Done.
06:35
Easy is that and we have all of those terminals now placed.
06:38
Now, we can here then start to edit our terminals.
06:42
So we can add information to these terminals.
06:45
By right-clicking on them, you can see the different terminal
06:48
editing options.
06:50
So there is association of terminals,
06:52
there is jumper information, and then
06:55
there's a few other additions to those association and jumpers.
06:58
Things like breaking those associations apart and then
07:01
even copying terminal properties.
07:04
Now, associating terminals is what's
07:05
allows us to define the multi-level terminals.
07:09
In the schematics, they don't look multilevel.
07:11
They look like individual terminals,
07:13
but when we associate them to each other,
07:15
they become a part of that multilevel terminal.
07:18
So, for instance, if I were to connect--
07:24
and I am going to just go in here and grab associate.
07:28
If I were to grab this terminal and this terminal and hit
07:35
Enter, you don't see it happen on screen,
07:38
it was happening down in the command prompt,
07:40
but when I right-click on it and I edit this component,
07:44
I can now see that 603 and
07:48
the levels of these terminals.
07:50
So they now know that is not just
07:52
its own independent terminal.
07:54
It's a part of this multilevel terminal.
07:57
Now, if I was actually jumpering something together,
08:01
we don't see the little jumper so people ask me about that.
08:03
You could draw a loop if you wanted to,
08:06
but we define that in the actual properties of the terminals.
08:10
And then we can drive jumper charts
08:12
and other kinds of reporting tools like that
08:14
out in the panel drawings.
08:16
So if I were to right-click on this terminal
08:18
and I were to come down and say, Edit Jumper,
08:21
I can then choose this terminal and this terminal.
08:25
Hit Enter and you will see that they are jumpered together.
08:27
And then I can actually add catalog information
08:31
to that jumper.
08:33
Please take a moment to do the insert terminals
08:36
and edit terminals exercise.
Project: Create Terminal Jumpers and Associations
|
Completion of the Terminals, Multiple level Terminals and Jumpers Lesson
|
How to buy
Privacy | Do not sell or share my personal information | Cookie preferences | Report noncompliance | Terms of use | Legal | © 2025 Autodesk Inc. All rights reserved
Sign in to start learning
Sign in for unlimited free access to all learning content.Save your progress
Take assessments
Receive personalized recommendations
May we collect and use your data?
Learn more about the Third Party Services we use and our Privacy Statement. May we collect and use your data to tailor your experience?
Explore the benefits of a customized experience by managing your privacy settings for this site or visit our Privacy Statement to learn more about your options.
