By dsmith79 on 2024-11-04 - 18:40

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Multiple names to 1 manufacturer

By dsmith79 on 2024-11-04 - 18:40

Hi I'm spending a day going through tutorials as we have chosen skycad for our electrical drawings. I noticed when looking at adding equipment to the Parts list that the online parts calalogue sometimes has the same company writen different ways eg 

Phoenix, Phoenix contact, phoenix contacts etc etc I think phoenix has about 5 or 6 so searching for a product would result in having to look through multiple headings. could someone clean up and regroup all companys together if they have multiple. perhaps a list of "names we should use" for when new items are created would be good eg use Omron not omron or OMRON 

 

just a thought finding things slowly sinking in the videos are a very good idea

 

Darren

 

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By Eduardo Lopez on 2024-11-05 - 09:56

Thank you for posting on the forum, 

We're glad to hear you've chosen SkyCAD for your electrical drawings; it sounds like you're really diving into the tutorials, which is fantastic, combined with hands-on experience using SkyCAD, is the best way to get the most out of it. 

You bring up an excellent point regarding the naming conventions in our parts catalog. Streamlining company names for consistency is a great idea, and we’ll certainly take your suggestion into consideration.

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By Eduardo Lopez on 2025-04-14 - 14:34

You bring up an excellent point regarding the naming conventions in our parts catalog. Streamlining company names for consistency is a great idea, and we’ll certainly take your suggestion into consideration.

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By scad.evod on 2025-04-19 - 16:09

Suggestions:

1) Have the program detect manufacturer, and preformat it to an internal list to automatically maintain conformity and prevent this in the future.

2) Group productsinto their respective product lines

   e.g. AutomationDirect

                |-> CLICK

                |-> Productivity 1000

                |-> Productivity200

                |-> etc.