Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 User Guide - Page 649

2 In the Decompose Symbols dialog, for File to Decompose, select the drawing (DWG file) that contains the schematic symbol styles to convert: If you want to... then... convert the schematic symbol styles in the click Current Drawing. current drawing open in AutoCAD MEP convert the schematic symbol styles in a drawing stored locally on your computer click the radio button beside the file path, click Browse, select the drawing file, and click Open. 3 For Block Path, click Browse, and select the folder in which to place the drawings that contain the AutoCAD blocks used by the views in the schematic symbol styles. Click OK. If the selected folder already contains drawings, then during the conversion process, you will be prompted about overwriting drawings with the same name. NOTE Like all AutoCAD® blocks, the blocks in the output drawings are stored in an invisible data area called the block definition table. For more information, see "How Blocks are Stored and Referenced" in AutoCAD® Help. 4 For Script Path, click Browse, and select the file name of the symbol conversion script to create: If you want to... then... create a new script in the Select File dialog, specify the location for the new script, enter a name, and click Save. overwrite the contents of an existing script in the Select File dialog, select the drawing, click Save, and then click Yes to confirm that the contents of the drawing can be overwritten. 5 Click Decompose. The software converts the schematic symbol styles into the blocks used by the style views and generates an associated script based on the style definitions. NOTE Because a schematic symbol style specifies only the positions of the connectors and not the method in which they were initially specified, the script sets the default value of the Connector Placement property of all connectors to Specify. As a result, before you reuse the conversion script to create new schematic symbol styles, you might need to modify these values. You can now modify the blocks and the script, and then use them to create new schematic symbol styles based on your modifications. For more information, see Converting Blocks to Schematic Symbol Styles on page 631. Converting Blocks to Schematic Symbol Styles You can convert a set of AutoCAD® blocks to schematic symbol styles. The output of the conversion process is a drawing (DWG file) that contains the styles. Typically, you use this process in 1 of 2 contexts. In the first context, you want to create schematic symbol styles using the blocks in your existing block libraries. During the process, you need to create a symbol conversion script (Custom Content File or CCF file) that contains the style settings to use to create the schematic symbol styles. In the second context, you have already converted a set of existing schematic symbol styles to their individual components, customized the components, and now you want to create new schematic symbol styles based Converting Blocks to Schematic Symbol Styles | 631