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In the Electrical Index, select Documents > Wiring Diagrams.
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Select a wiring diagram.
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Select File > Open > Drawing
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When opening a wiring diagram that contained a wiring item that has been deleted from your plant, the wiring diagram no longer displays this item, showing the cable and wiring item connected to the other cable end.
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If you deleted both wiring items that were connected to a cable, the wiring diagram displays the cable only.
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If you deleted a cable that was used to connect two wiring items, the wiring diagram shows the two items as disconnected.
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Removing a wiring item from a diagram does not delete that item from your plant.
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Disconnecting two wiring items in a diagram, disconnects the items in your plant, removes the connecting cable from the diagram and retains the association between the cable and the items in your plant.
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You can add other wiring items to the diagram by dragging them to diagram from the Electrical Index or Related Items window.
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After adding a wiring item that is connected to a cable, the diagram displays the item connected to the cable on one of the cables sides and the name of the item tag of the wiring item that is connected on the other cable side. After dragging that wiring item to the diagram, software replaces the item tag name with the symbol of that wiring item.
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The software allows you to add annotations and use redlining in your wiring diagrams. For details, see Annotations and Redlining.
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If you move a macro to another place in the drawing, selecting a macro highlights the cable, cable set, or conductor that is associated with that macro. This way you can see which cable, cable set, or conductor belongs to that macro.
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In a wiring diagram, the software does not show the item tag label for conductors whose polarity property is defined as shield.
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Sometimes, after the software opens a drawing, the distance between connected items is either too long or too short, which results in an inappropriate display of connectors. To control the visual consistency of connectors, you can set a Clearance value that specifies the amount of space that the software will maintain between the connector and the connected element (also known as range avoidance). This action allows you to control the visual consistency of connectors that make right-angle turns just before they attach to a symbol.
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To set Clearance, select a connector and then type the minimum distance from the symbols where you would like the first turn in the connectors to occur. Note that the default setting is zero.