- Once I'm in my symbol editor, this is essentially
just an area where I can draw whatever I'd like.
So again, any symbol I may need, I can just draw
or sketch out now, using a number of drawing tools.
In the symbol editor, most of the tabs we'll be using
will be in the draw tab to actually draw it up.
And maybe the modify as well, trim and extend and so on.
In addition to that, we'll also take a look at
edit symbol a little bit later
to add the electrical connection points also.
So let's start by drawing this out.
I want to draw something like a fuse, or maybe a 3-pull fuse.
So I'm going to try and use my drawing commands.
This is pretty much like a 2D CAD tool now at this point.
So we can draw our sketch out, rectangles, lines,
circles and so forth to create our symbols here.
The first thing we might want to do though,
notice that right now I'm in this Justins Custom Fuse.
So it's actually a DWG file for this specific symbol.
And I can jump back to my electrical projects
at any point as well and jump back in.
But the first thing I might want
to check is really important here.
It's to make sure that your grid spacing
and your snap spacing match up.
Because if I'm drawing a 3-pull fuse for example,
I want to make sure that those three phases are aligned,
so when I throw it into my project, it lines up nicely.
So I might want to first check my existing project,
see what this grid spacing is.
So again I'll jump into view tab,
and go into those parameters.
And so I can see here the grid spacing is a quarter inch.
So, when I'm drawing up my symbol,
I'll want to absolutely make sure that
all my connection points and so on,
are spaced out a quarter inch.
So I can close out of this, I'll jump back into
my symbol editor and might help to turn on the grid.
So I'm going to back to view now,
turn on a grid here, there's my grid.
But I want to make sure again it's that quarter inch.
So I'll go into parameters and it looks like here.
So this grid right now,
it's a little bit wider we might see, it's a half inch.
So you'll see if I just started
drawing up my symbol right away, like this.
It wouldn't line up nicely at all
once I actually try to insert it in a project.
So I want to change this to say, quarter inch
and maybe the snap spacing as well, quarter inch.
Or maybe even smaller when I'm drawing things out,
I'll just have more finer control there.
But the grid spacing is kind of most important.
So now I want to align everything on each grid point.
So try to close out there.
Essentially what I'd want now,
is to have one fuse on this grid line,
one above and another one above, each on those grid lines.
So drawing out this just kind of simple sketch tools here.
So I can go into my draw tab, and if it's a fuse,
maybe I'll start with just a line.
Okay I'm going to draw a very simple object here.
I'll just draw something like a line, maybe like this.
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And maybe a rectangle as well,
if I'm trying to draw a fuse here.
Okay, something like that.
Maybe I'll make it actually even thinner a little bit.
Notice you might need to play
around with your grid and snap.
So if I want to make this a little bit thinner,
for example, I actually can't right now.
Because my snap is .125 inch
so it's only able to snap this amount.
I might need to play around with
grid and snap a little bit further.
I'll jump to view, go into my parameters
and maybe I want to go another fraction lower here.
So I'll go to point or something like this let's say.
And now I should be able to,
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I've kind of one finer grid snap point there.
So let's say, that's our first fuse for example.
And then if I wanted to make it a 3-pull,
just to make sure everything aligns nicely.
I can just do copy, paste, copy, paste, copy, paste.
Again there's whole number of draw tools and modify tools.
For example, if you want to trim lines, extend lines,
throw in fillets, scale things, mirror things and so on.
You have a whole bunch of drawing commands here for you.
I'm just running through kind of the basics.
Maybe I want to do just a copy, paste here.
Just do Control + C, Control + V.
And maybe I want another fuse there
and another fuse, something like this.
And here we can kind of see my fuse
drawn out here for three phase.
And now once we've drawn this out, eventually
we're going to add some electrical connection points.