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When we place a component in our drawing, let's say a Relay Coil like that, for example, if I click on that and I right-click and edit that component I could go and look for a manufacturer by hitting the Lookup button here and this will actually take me to a Panel Footprint Database File, so you can see there, look, Manufacturers, I can look at AB, ABB and so on. You've got Fuji, Mitsubishi and so on. Now, they're all held in an Access Database File, an MDB file, so I'll just Cancel that there. Notice there, look, can you see, Closing mdb file. Now, you can edit these Panel Footprint Tables and they're on the Schematic tab here. Now before we go and look at Editing our Panel Footprint Database Files let's just right-click on the Project, Add the Active Drawing, say Yes to that and there's our PANEL FOOTPRINT DATABASE FILES drawing. Right-click on it, Properties, Drawing Properties and we'll make sure that it's sequential, like usual, job done. So we've got our drawing there nice and neatly in our Project. Now, back to that Schematic tab and over here to Other Tools and it's this Icon here. Can you see here? Click here. You've got a PLC Database File Editor, Electrical Standards, Terminals, Schematic Database File Editor. So they're all there. So if I click on Schematic Database File Editor you can see there I can actually edit the mdb Table, can you see that there? And if I scroll down this list you can see there, AB and there's various catalogs and these are each of the components separated by commas. So I'll just Quit that for the moment and I'll go back again and I'll just hit the button here now and click here: PLC Database File Editor. What's in there? Well, let's have a look. If I click on there like that it takes a few seconds, it's thinking about it, it's looking at the database. Now these databases can be quite large, but as you can see now, look, there's the PLC Database File Editor, so there's ABB. There's an AC31 there. If I start clicking on this information here you'll see there, look, Plus signs again, lots of information. Look. It's all database-driven. Now I'm not going to make any edits here because I don't want all this standard data changed. This is the sort of data that I use on a day-to-day basis when I'm building up an electrical circuit, but you can see there how these Panel Footprint Database Files are extremely important. So I'm going to Close that without any changes. So, remember, Other Tools here, and it's just here. There are all the File Editors there. Electrical Standards, Pin Lists, Terminal Properties. If I go to Terminal Properties, Type of Manufacturer there, if I Edit the AB Table again, there is, it's an mdb file. It's just a database Table that goes into a database. I can edit that though if I wish by clicking on it I can actually edit that information for that manufacturer, that catalog number and that particular component. I won't in this case. I'll Cancel it and I'll Quit that. But you can see how easy it is, and once you get more well-versed with AutoCAD Electrical you can add components that you might use from other sources. You might not have them in the database so you can add them from, perhaps, their catalog for example. So, that's how these Panel Footprint Database Files work.