Use enhanced themes, table styles, and intelligent Cut, Copy, and Paste commands, as well as Find links.
The theme of the AutoCAD Electrical interface can be dark or light, depending on your preference. Table styles control text size, style, and margins on reports. Intelligent cut and copy can place selections of objects onto the clipboard, while paste inserts the selection with automatic updates to tags and wire numbers.
Within the Help documentation, the Find link points to a specific icon within the application to help you locate the command.
Assign sequential or reference-based numbers on all wires and components automatically.
AutoCAD Electrical assigns unique wire numbers and component tags in your electrical schematic drawings based on the chosen configuration, reducing the time spent tracking design changes and reducing errors.
If no clear spot is available, the software searches for a clear spot and automatically draws a leader back to the wire.
Dynamically generate rules-based electrical control circuits based on components, wiring, ratings, and catalog data.
Circuit Builder gives you the information to make good electrical engineering decisions that are also environmentally sustainable.
Create electrical schematic designs based on wire material type, ambient temperature, maximum voltage drop, and more. Improve productivity by building commonly used circuits once, and then saving them to be reused later.
AutoCAD Electrical software comes with several hundred thousand standards-based electrical schematic symbols.
A simple, menu-driven system for inserting devices enables you to quickly build standards-based electrical control designs, including pneumatic and hydraulic. Select frequently used devices from a menu. Symbol libraries include support for the following standards:
AutoCAD Electrical also includes all the functionality of AutoCAD design and documentation software, plus a comprehensive set of functions developed specifically for designing electrical control systems. Specialized features enable you to trim wire, copy and delete components or circuits, and scoot and align components.
Catch and remove costly errors before the build phase begins.
AutoCAD Electrical monitors and alerts you to potential design errors as they occur by constantly comparing the requested changes with the current project.
Items such as duplicated wire numbers and component tags are flagged during this error-checking process. Missing or incorrect wire numbers are difficult to identify and can cause real problems downstream; these alerts help to ensure a smooth design process before the electrical schematic gets passed on to manufacturing.