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Adding wiring

Adding wiring - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial

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Adding wiring

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It's time for some wiring. Of course there are some ins and outs involved in such a task. You may not like the default wiring as you are adding it to your model. That's fine. We're going to take a look and see how we can change that. This video will revolve around the art of drawing wires to specific snap points on our receptacles. We'll then create a home run to our panel. Then we will go back and see how we can change the default properties of our wires. So to get started, let's jump into our MEP drawing. Make sure we're at electrical power, and make sure that our workspace switching is set for electrical. I'm going to zoom in on my gathering meeting space. I'm going to go ahead and select my wire button. Now you'll see we have some choices. I'm going to L for line at the command prompt. For my style I want to type A for arc. Now I'm going to zoom in on this receptacle. AutoCAD is going to give us a little exclamation point indicating that there's nothing connected to it. We can…

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