To Define Drawing Standards
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Open the
Options dialog from any of the following sources:
- Project Manager > Workspace Toolbar
- Project Manager > Workspace popup menu
- New Project dialog
- Modify Project dialog
- Backpage menu
- Select Standards (from the Project Options) to display a set of tabs allowing the user to define drawing standards.
- Select the General tab.
- In the Profile field, select a pre-defined profile or Edit the elements of these profiles.
- In the Electrical Standard area, select whether the drawings will follow the ANSI-IEEE or IEC standard.
- Select the Default Units of Measure (Inches or Metric) for your drawings. These units will also be used for report templates.
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(Optional): In the
Device Appending Setting area, select
whether to
Allow Devices To Be Appended To Families to
allow additional symbols to be assigned to a device ID after the available
spots have been filled. This will enable the following additional options that
can be selected:
- Select a Primary Mode from the drop down list.
- When finished defining the drawing standards, click OK to save the changes.