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In most cases, the Electric check-box should be checked. Ordinary "intelligent" functionality like cross-references, report generation, and so on, will then work as expected for the symbol in question.

 

On the other hand, if you uncheck Electric, the symbol will be excluded from all "intelligent" processing. It will not be reflected in the OnLine database, no error checking will be made, and the symbol will simply act as a "stupid" AutoCAD block.

 

Creating non-electric symbols like that may in fact be very useful in many situations. Maybe you need additional blocks for the title field or other additional graphical blocks. If blocks like that are simply created as AutoCAD blocks using the WBLOCK command, they will cause an error in cadett ELSA, if they are placed in an electrical layer. The error will tell that the symbol definition is missing, meaning that the symbol is missing in the symbol database.

 

To avoid that nuisance, you can place the symbol in a non-electrical layer, but even better is to define the symbol with the Symbol Generator as a non-electrical symbol by un-checking the Electric check-box as described here. In that way, you can place the symbol in any layer that happens to be practical, without the risk of errors or other problems.