Configuring a Wire Specification Library

In order to be able to select wire size for your design, your need to configure a wire specification library before you insert a new design in your project. RMxprt provides the following libraries of wire gauge specifications based on the current widely used standards for bare copper wire gauges (including both round and rectangular wires). These files are stored in the syslib directory.

American.wir

File American.wir provides dimensions for all ANSI bare wires.

ANSI_SingleFilm.wir

ANSI_HeavyFilm.wir

ANSI_TripleFilm.wir

ANSI_QuadFilm.wir

Files ANSI*.wir provide dimensions for bare and film insulated copper wires with single, heavy, triple and quad builds of integer and half AWG numbers.

AWG_Int_SingleFilm.wir

AWG_Int_HeavyFilm.wir

AWG_Int_TripleFilm.wir

AWG_Int_QuadFilm.wir

Files AWG_Int*.wir provide dimensions of integer AWG numbers.

Chinese.wir

 

IEC_R20Grade1.wir

IEC_R20Grade2.wir

IEC_R20Grade3.wir

IEC_R40Grade1.wir

IEC_R40Grade2.wir

IEC_R40Grade3.wir

Files IEC_R20*.wir provide dimensions of enameled copper wires with Grade-1, 2, and 3 insulations of R20 series. Files IEC_R40*.wir provide dimensions of R40 series. In files IEC*.wir, the gauge numbers are equivalent to the AWG numbers according to the nominal diameters.

  1. Click Tools > Options > General Options to open the Options dialog box, displaying a hierarchical list of options. Click the + button next to Machines to show the following choice: Wire Settings.

  2. Select the desired wire library from the drop-down menu. In addition to the System Libraries choices listed above, you can also choose wire libraries you may have in either the User or Personal libraries.
  3. Edit wire data as needed.