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The AutoCAD Electrical Advantage To succeed in today’s global marketplace, electrical controls designers can no longer afford to rely on generic software applications to get the job done. AutoCAD Electrical offers control engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend more time innovating. Contents Error Checking and Prevention...................3 Standards-Based Drafting and Component Libraries............................ 4 Design and Drafting Productivity Tools............
Error Checking and Prevention AutoCAD Electrical software includes automatic errorchecking capabilities that help designers perform real-time diagnostics to catch problems before the build phase of a project. ® Automatic Wire Numbering and Component Tagging Spending long hours manually assigning wire numbers and component tags is a thing of the past, as are the potential errors inherent in that process.
Standards-Based Drafting and Component Libraries AutoCAD Electrical supports international standards and provides comprehensive libraries of manufacturer content and symbols, enabling users to easily create standards-based designs that comply with industry requirements. Symbol Builder Guide and manage the creation and conversion of AutoCAD® blocks into intelligent AutoCAD Electrical symbols.
Design and Drafting Productivity Tools AutoCAD Electrical software offers controls designers immediate productivity gains with a complete set of specialized features and tools developed specifically for the creation of accurate, industry-standard electrical control systems. Streamlined Design Environment AutoCAD Electrical features a streamlined user interface. Find your favorite tools and commands faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover relevant new features more easily.
Design and Drafting Productivity Tools New Drawing Command With a single click of a button, you can begin a new drawing and know that AutoCAD Electrical is fully aware of the current project settings. After you choose a template with the appropriate title block and drawing border, the new drawing automatically becomes part of the active project and you are ready to start inserting devices. Multiple Drawing Interface Aware Simultaneously view and edit multiple drawings at once.
Design and Drafting Productivity Tools Fixed Wire Numbers and Component Tags AutoCAD Electrical enables you to easily accommodate design modifications late in the cycle without affecting previous work. When you change the status of wire numbers and component tags to a “fixed” format, they remain unaffected during a project-wide renumbering of wires or retagging of components.
Schematic Design Tools Create and modify electrical control schematics more accurately and in fraction of the time it takes with AutoCAD®. Automatic Wire Gaps Effortlessly create easy-to-read schematics. Whenever two wires cross in an electrical design, AutoCAD Electrical automatically indicates which wire passes through. You can choose from wire gaps, loops, or solid wires to show crossing wires.
Schematic Design Tools Insert Rungs Being able to quickly insert rungs into an existing ladder greatly speeds up the drafting of electrical control schematics. Simply click anywhere inside a ladder to insert a new rung complete with wire connection dots and automatically align it with the corresponding wire numbers. Three-Phase Motor Control Save time and increase productivity when creating three-phase motor circuits.
Panel Layout Tools Quickly and easily create panel layout drawings with intelligent updating to reduce errors. Starting Designs with a Panel Layout Drawing AutoCAD Electrical provides a flexible design environment that works the way you want to work. You can start designs by creating a panel layout drawing and using it to drive the creation of the corresponding logical control schematics. This feature gives you the boost you need for tight turnaround times and supports the needs of individual designers.
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Tools AutoCAD Electrical includes a set of tools specifically designed to increase your productivity and accuracy when working with PLC I/O drawings. PLC I/O Libraries Quickly create PLC I/O drawings by selecting from a library of more than 3,000 intelligent PLC I/O modules from the industry’s most popular vendors.
Comprehensive Terminal Management Increase design accuracy and reduce the complexity of working with terminals in a design. Terminal Strip Editor Easily manage and edit terminals throughout a project with the simplified Terminal Strip Editor interface. With only a few clicks, you can insert spare terminals or make modifications, such as reversing the left and right wiring information for a terminal.
Collaboration and Interoperability The sharing of accurate design data between AutoCAD Electrical and other Autodesk applications enables electrical and mechanical teams to smoothly collaborate on digital prototypes. ® Link to the Cable and Harness Functionality of Autodesk® Inventor® Professional Quickly create accurate 2D and 3D electrical control designs using the bi-directional interoperability between AutoCAD® Electrical and Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software.
Data Management and Reporting Tools Fully integrated data management tools make it easy to securely store and manage your work-in-process electrical design data. AutoCAD Electrical also includes built-in tools that instantly generate and update critical reports so you can provide accurate information to manufacturing and save hours on document maintenance. ® Integrated Data Management Accelerate development cycles and increase your ROI by reusing existing designs.
Data Migration Tools Save hours of rework by leveraging your existing design data from AutoCAD and other products. Automatically convert data into intelligent AutoCAD Electrical designs without losing previous customizations. ® ® Migration Utility The migration utility lets you easily migrate from your previous version of AutoCAD Electrical design software to the latest release while preserving your existing data and settings.
Digital Prototyping for the Manufacturing Market Autodesk, a world-leading supplier of engineering software, provides tools that let viewers experience ideas before they are real. By putting powerful Digital Prototyping technology within the reach of mainstream manufacturers, Autodesk is changing the way manufacturers think about the design process and helping create more productive workflows.
