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Training Recording: Creating Custom Blocks

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

How to create custom blocks for use in Design Master Electrical.

We look at the following topics for custom blocks:

The Block Creation commands available (00:44)
Creating a light fixture block using the Create Plan View Block from Entities command (01:41)
- How and where blocks are stored in Design Master (01:58)
- Finding your customization folder using the Installation Settings command (08:02)
The Create Slide command (09:47)
Creating a receptacle block using the Create Plan View Block from Entities command (10:56)
- How the To Scale setting affects blocks (12:50)

We answer the following questions:

We also look at how to create custom breaker curves in Design Master Electrical 8.6 (30:33) by drawing a curve based upon a PDF (31:58).

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