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Make sure the correct scale is used

Make sure the correct scale is used - AutoCAD Electrical Tutorial

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Make sure the correct scale is used

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- [Instructor] In the previous video, we placed our parametric PLC module, and as you can see it's on the screen at the moment. Now we didn't change the scale of the parametric PLC, we left it at one. So what I'm going to do now and you can do this if you want to as well, is go up to the undo and just undo the parametric PLC that we placed so that we're back to just a little wiring ladder with the rungs. Now I'm going to go back to the schematic tab on the ribbon into the insert components panel into the file again, insert PLC parametric. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to stick with the same one that I used last time which is the 1771E1, that was the one we used last time. I'm going to stay with the same graphic style, vertical module because our ladder is vertical in the drawing but I'm going to update the scale. Now you'll notice some weird numbering going on in the scale. That's because these allow you to convert from imperial to metric and vice versa. So you'll notice that if…

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