Adding Wires to Electrical Circuits (4:24 min)

00:01

NARRATOR: Adding wires to electrical circuits.

00:04

In this video, we will automatically

00:06

add wires to existing circuits using both arc wires

00:09

and chamfered wires.

00:11

We will then modify the wires using controls and properties.

00:15

Finally, we will add wires to electrical devices

00:18

without having a circuit selected.

00:22

I'm working in the small Medical Center

00:24

project in the ground floor electrical devices plan view.

00:28

I'm getting this view ready to be a wiring diagram that I

00:32

can place on a sheet.

00:34

First I'm going to zoom in on the exam rooms of the building,

00:37

and you can see that I have my electrical room visible

00:41

as well.

00:42

I'm going to hover over and select

00:45

one of the electrical circuits.

00:47

Notice that I have two icons, one

00:49

where I can generate arc type wiring and one for

00:53

chamfered I'm going to click Generate arc type wiring

00:58

for this temporary wiring icon.

01:01

And you can see that it places the wiring in here

01:04

with a home run era with the end.

01:07

Let's do this again.

01:08

I'm hovering and tapping until I get my circuit,

01:12

and then I'm going to choose the generate chamfered type wiring

01:16

from this temporary wiring.

01:18

The style of wiring you choose depends

01:20

on your office standard.

01:22

Next I'm going to go ahead and select another circuit,

01:26

and this time I'm going to go to the Modify Electrical Circuits

01:30

tab and select arc wire.

01:33

I can continue working around my building with this.

01:36

Instead of using the circuits, I can also

01:39

draw the wire directly.

01:42

In the Systems tab on the Electrical panel,

01:45

I expand wire, and I can choose from three types of wiring,

01:50

arc wires, spline wires where you

01:53

can have more than one vertex and chamfered wires.

01:57

I'm going to choose our wire in this case.

02:01

Now you select the connector plane node of the outlet,

02:05

and then pick a point that's going

02:08

to be the curve of the arc.

02:10

You continue this process around.

02:13

So you go ahead and select the connector point,

02:16

you select the arc value, and then

02:19

you select the next connector point.

02:22

I always forget to select the arc point first

02:25

so you do need to remember to do that.

02:28

If you choose out in space, then it

02:30

knows that this is the end of the wiring

02:32

and it's going to be a home run to your panel.

02:38

Now I'm ready to modify the wiring.

02:41

So first of all, you need to select the wires.

02:44

They are individual, so you're selecting each one

02:47

individually, and you have several controls.

02:50

You can change the wire start and end offsets,

02:54

you can change the control point that move the vertex.

02:58

You also have plus and minus items.

03:01

These increase the number of the conductors by one.

03:05

So if you click there, you can see it added an additional tick

03:08

mark.

03:08

So the plus adds a tick mark, the minus takes one away.

03:12

You can also make changes in properties.

03:14

So of course, you can change the wire type,

03:17

but here is also a place where you

03:19

can change the hot conductors.

03:21

I can, for example add two here.

03:24

When I move back out into my screen,

03:26

you can see that it's added the extra tick mark.

03:29

Now a lot of companies don't use the tick marks at all.

03:32

And so what you can do is turn them off.

03:35

So under tick marks, they're calculated by default,

03:39

and then I'm going to turn them off.

03:41

And it turns it off on that one wire.

03:44

Well, of course, if I want them off on all of them,

03:47

I'm going to go ahead and select that wire, right click,

03:50

select All instances visible in the view.

03:54

And now I can come back and change my tick marks

03:57

for all of them to off.

03:59

So you could continue to work through your entire project

04:03

selecting in this case, I'm going to select the circuit,

04:06

add the wires, select all those wires and turn them off,

04:11

and I would continue to do this until I

04:13

had all the wires in my project that I need in this view.