Subtitles of the Movie

When we look at components that have been brought in in Peer-to-Peer environments such as Pneumatic, Hydraulic and P and ID, they have a WDTYPE variable. Now let's check out that variable. This is, as you can see, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, and also there's a Turbine there as well. Now let's check the WDTYPE variable. Now you can edit it in a number of ways. I can actually just use Edit Component here and select this component like so and if I go Show-Edit Miscellaneous here you can see that the WDTYPE variable there is PI, P and ID. So I'll Cancel that and I'll Cancel that. If I Edit the component again here on this one and go to Show-Edit Miscellaneous you'll see it's HY and look, you've even got Peer-to-Peer information. There's the Block Name and there's WDTYPE, Drawing Discipline and it's HY, Hydraulic, so you can obviously add that there, so I'll Cancel that and I'll Cancel that again and if I go Edit Component again and select this one you'll see there when I do Show-Edit Miscellaneous again, the Drawing Discipline is Pneumatic and you can see that it's a Pneumatic Block there. So this definition, WDTYPE is important. If I just Cancel those though and do a Zoom Extents and go and zoom in, let's say, on this Relay here and do the same again, I'll do an Edit and I'll select the Relay, Show-Edit Miscellaneous there, that's a COMMON 02. That's because we know it's electrical. Notice there's no WDTYPE variable there. The way to find it on this particular one is to right-click, Attributes, List-Edit and let's have a look. Is there a WDTYPE in there? There isn't. That's because only Peer-to-Peer components on a drawing use that WDTYPE variable to obviously let AutoCAD Electrical know that they are not electrical components. So you can see there that you might have the same Description. So let's have a look at that. Let's just Cancel that for a moment and let's have a look at inserting a component. So, let's bring a component into the drawing. Let's have a look at something like a Motor and I'm going to look at, let's say, a Standard 1 Phase Motor. Let's bring that in. A 1 Phase Motor and I'll drop that right there. There's my Motor and I'll OK that. Now I'm not actually attaching that to any wiring, but if I went to, let's say, Pneumatic here or Hydraulic or P and ID, let's have a look at Pneumatic Components for a moment. Are there any motors there? Yes there are. Slightly different - there's an Axial Piston Air Motor, but if I bring that in and then I say OK to that, it's come in very small. But if I zoom in on it you can see it's still a motor, so if I right-click on that and go to Attributes and List-Edit you'll see there's the WDTYPE. So I could have a Block that is still a Motor but it's a Pneumatic Motor rather than an electrical motor controlled by the electrical circuit. So that's your WDTYPE variable. It allows you to work with your Peer-to-Peer drawings with other disciplines that are related to your electrical drawings.