5
Click Decompose.
The software converts the device styles into the blocks used by the style views and generates an
associated script based on the style definitions.
NOTE
Because a device 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
device styles, you might need to change these values.
You can now modify the blocks and the script, and then use them to create new device styles based on your
modifications. For more information, see
Converting Blocks to Device Styles
on page 622.
Converting Blocks to Device Styles
You can convert a set of AutoCAD
®
blocks to device styles. The output of the conversion process is a drawing
(DWG file) that contains the device styles.
Typically, you use this process in 1 of 2 contexts. In the first context, you want to create device styles using
the blocks in your existing block libraries. During the process, you need to create a device conversion script
(Custom Content File or CCF file) that contains the style settings to use to create the device styles.
In the second context, you have already converted a set of existing device styles to their individual
components, customized the components, and now you want to create new device styles based on the
customizations. In this case, you already have a conversion script, which you can customize and reuse.
Regardless of the context, you use only one script to produce one drawing containing device styles. For
example, you would use one script to produce one drawing containing customized styles for receptacles.
To convert a set of blocks to device styles
1
Click Manage tab
➤
MEP Content panel
➤
➤
Batch Convert Devices
.
2
In the Batch Convert Devices dialog, under Conversion Script File, for Path specify the device
conversion script (CCF file) to use to convert the blocks to device styles.
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