User manual AUTODESK AUTOCAD ELECTRICAL BROCHURE

[. . . ] Get wired. AutoCAD ® Electrical 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Schematic Design Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Programmable Logic Controller Tools . . . . . 11 Comprehensive Terminal Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Collaboration and Interoperability . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Three-Phase Motor Control Save time and increase productivity when creating three-phase motor circuits. Quickly design motor circuits using intelligent, built-in symbol libraries that include three-pole breakers, switches, motor contactors, and more. When you insert them, these symbols adapt to the underlying three-phase rung spacing automatically. Source and Destination Markers Quickly track wires from page to page within a project. When a wire starts on one drawing and continues onto another, you can connect them electronically using the source and destination signals. Cable and Conductor Tracking Easily manage cable and conductor usage in AutoCAD Electrical projects with automatic tracking capabilities. Designate individual wires as belonging to a cable, and then generate reports based on cable usage for fabrication purposes. Similar to inserting components, when you assign manufacturer part number information to cables, AutoCAD Electrical automatically tracks and reports conductor usage based on that part number. Connector Generator Quickly generate connectors by providing minimal information, such as the number of pins and orientation. With AutoCAD Electrical, you'll be able to generate accurate point-to-point style designs in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional AutoCAD software. Project Interface Easily manage and navigate the many individual DWGTM files that make up an electrical control systems project with the AutoCAD Electrical project interface. The intuitive file management features in AutoCAD Electrical let you spend more time designing and less time organizing files. 9 Panel Layout Tools Quickly and easily create panel layout drawings with intelligent updating to reduce errors. Create Smart Panel Layout Drawings from Electrical Schematics Using AutoCAD® Electrical to create panel layout drawings gives you a systematic means of checking that no devices are missed and makes an electronic link between the representation of the device in the schematic and panel drawings. Here's how it works: Once you have created an electrical schematic, the software extracts a list of schematic components for placement in the panel layout drawings. The physical "footprint" representation of each schematic device is inserted into the layout at the point you select. Then the software creates an electronic link between the schematic and panel device representations. So when you change key data on one drawing, you get a prompt for permission to update the other. Even non-schematic items like wire duct and mounting hardware can be added to the layout and automatically combined to create a "smart" panel bill of materials (BOM) report. 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. Location Boxes and Markers Quickly and easily associate groups of devices with a specific panel location using the Location Box command. Apply location markers on the schematic that represent the corresponding panel location. This capability makes it easy to identify locations for a device or group of devices, resulting in more accurate panel layouts. Insert Balloons on Panel Devices Save time by automatically annotating control panel drawings with intelligent item balloons that coincide with the panel BOM. 10 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. Automatically Create PLC/IO Drawings from Spreadsheets Generate a complete set of PLC I/O drawings simply by defining the project's I/O assignments in a spreadsheet program. This capability can save you a tremendous amount of design time by virtually eliminating the need to create those drawings in an AutoCAD® environment. [. . . ] AutoCAD Electrical supports saving reports in ASCII, Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® AccessTM, CSV, or XML formats. Surfable Reports Navigate reports and their corresponding designs with the surfable reports feature. When you place reports into a design as a table, you can click the various fields to instantly find the corresponding devices in the schematics or panel layout drawings. Drawing List Report AutoCAD Electrical can extract a list of project drawings that lists drawing numbers, titles, dates, revisions, and other important data. Create a list of data extracted from the project drawing title blocks and save to file, print, or insert it into a drawing. 14 Data Migration Tools Save hours of rework by leveraging your existing design data from AutoCAD and other products. [. . . ]