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Wiring Accessory

The Wiring Accessory tool is intended to create wiring accessories in a model to design electrical systems on walls, columns, floors and beams.

To place an object:

  1. Click the Wiring accessory tool.
  2. Set the Wiring accessory parameters:
  3. Position of wiring accessory relative to axis. Each option on the drop-down list shows how the object will be located relative to the insertion point on the level's plan or 3D view.

    Wiring accessory horizontal offset. X axis offset relative to insertion point. Can take negative values.

    Wiring accessory vertical offset. Y axis offset relative to insertion point. Can take negative values.

    Wiring accessory style. Defines object category, appearance, overall dimensions, parameters and properties. When editing, you can select only the style of the same category from the list.

    Wiring accessory rotation angle.

    Mark. It appears in the schedules. Necessary for insertion into the drawing.

  4. Change the measure mode to Cubic, Cylindrical or Spherical.
  5. Specify an insertion point on any wall, column, floor or beam. The created wiring accessory will have the same level as the wall, column, floor or beam the accessory was placed on.

In order to modify, copy or relocate created accessory, select it with the Select tool.

To connect wiring accessory to an electrical system:

  1. Right-click the object in the 3D view, level's plan or schedule.
  2. Select Select in system > System category name on the shortcut menu.
  3. In the system tab, determine the connection.

If object ports are not connected to the route, then all available system categories are displayed in the context menu. If ports are connected to routes, then only their categories are displayed in the list.