Korel_Design Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 What would be a good thing is, when doing electrical plans, having a few of the more common electrical functions tied to single stroke hot keys. Is that available? It sure would speed a few things up. JK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korel_Design Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 Never mind. I found the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korel_Design Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 I do have another issue. I have a ceiling fan with a light. I need to wire a switch to the fan motor and another switch to the light fixture. When I have two switches and I try and wire the 2 separate, my switches turn into 3 way switches. How can I have two 2 way switches going to this one ceiling fan with a light? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I don't know how to get a specific object into a hot key, but you can create a customized icon by dragging the "Place Library Object" icon onto a toolbar, and customizing that icon with a specific library object (and image), which is about the same and maybe even faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 3 minutes ago, Korel_Design said: I do have another issue. I have a ceiling fan with a light. I need to wire a switch to the fan motor and another switch to the light fixture. When I have two switches and I try and wire the 2 separate, my switches turn into 3 way switches. How can I have two 2 way switches going to this one ceiling fan with a light? Just use a plain old arc instead of a "connection." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korel_Design Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 Go to Tools>Toolbars & Hotkeys>Customize Hotkeys - There you can add Hot Keys for tool bar buttons. Tools>Toolbars & Hotkeys>Create Hotkey List saves an HTML File to the location of your choosing then open that file and print out your current list of Hot Keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korel_Design Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 Thanks. I thought of that. That's what I use in Brand X CAD Program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 2 minutes ago, Korel_Design said: Go to Tools>Toolbars & Hotkeys>Customize Hotkeys - There you can add Hot Keys for tool bar buttons. Tools>Toolbars & Hotkeys>Create Hotkey List saves an HTML File to the location of your choosing then open that file and print out your current list of Hot Keys. Sorry, I read your post too fast and thought you were trying to get common electrical ITEMS onto a hotkey. Maybe the tip on icons will be helpful, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkcDesigner Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 The other way to get two switches to fan and light are to open switches : under general options uncheck "automatic change switch type when wiring" before connecting switches to fan. this also works for getting 2 3ways and any number of four way switches.... connect to get the two three ways then uncheck and add as many four ways as you want. I have all ways be stickler on multiple switch wiring........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkwest Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 4 hours ago, Korel_Design said: I do have another issue. I have a ceiling fan with a light. I need to wire a switch to the fan motor and another switch to the light fixture. When I have two switches and I try and wire the 2 separate, my switches turn into 3 way switches. How can I have two 2 way switches going to this one ceiling fan with a light? I have heard of single pole, 3way and 4 way switches, what is a two way switch? I do like the use of an arc instead of connection... save time going back and editing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkcDesigner Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I am going to try to explain this..... To have more then one switch to turn light (or fan) on and off, takes two 3 way switches. Each contact leg "A" or "B" they both on same leg light on. Every switch added for more than two switches are 4 way switch between the two 3 way switches. Most designers around here call all switches in more than two switches 4 way switches....... I have no clue what a two way switch is unless it is a double pole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkwest Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I learned something new tonight... what used to be called a single pole is now called a 2 way... Switch - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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