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AutoCAD® Electrical is AutoCAD® software for controls designers, purpose-built to create and modify electrical control systems. It contains all the functionality of AutoCAD, the world’s leading CAD software, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating control engineering tasks, such as building circuits, numbering wires, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Electrical provides a library of more than 650,000 electrical symbols and components, includes real-time error checking, and enables electrical and mechanical teams to collaborate on digital prototypes built with Autodesk® Inventor® software. AutoCAD Electrical offers control engineers a competitive edge by helping save hours of effort, so they can spend more time innovating.
New Features for AutoCAD Electrical 2012:
Catalog Look-Up: Searching and assigning catalog information for large projects, which can contain hundreds or even thousands of symbols, can be time-consuming and frustrating. AutoCAD Electrical 2012 makes significant improvements to the catalog lookup process. Database performance enhancements enable dramatically faster loading times. So, you now have instant access to the extensive catalog, where improved filtering and sorting make it quick and easy to find exactly the component you need.
Import Wire Types: AutoCAD Electrical 2012 saves you time and helps to ensure consistent standards across projects by enabling you to easily reuse frequently specified wire types. You can now import wire types from an existing drawing or template into another drawing.
Item Numbering: The powerful panel layout tools in AutoCAD Electrical have been enhanced to save you time and reduce the potential errors inherent in resequencing. Item numbering now supports fixed item numbers on panel components. Fixed item numbers do not change when the Resequence Item Numbers command is run. Resequence item numbers based on the manufacturer values of the components. Select the manufacturers from a list of values used in the project. Only item numbers on components with selected manufacturers change. Define the resequence order based on the manufacturer values of the components. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the order of the manufacturers for processing by the Resequence Item Numbers command.
Location Boxes: Enhancements to the Location Box functionality make it easy to identify locations for a device or group of devices, resulting in more accurate panel layouts. When inserting a Location Box, a check box on the Location Box dialog box indicates whether to update the Location and Installation values for parent components that fall within the new location box. AutoCAD Electrical commands are now aware of location boxes. If you insert or move schematic parent components into an existing location box, location and installation values update to match the location box. When you move schematic parent components out of a location box, you can choose whether to update component values to match the drawing defaults.
Ease of Use Enhancements: Enhancements to the help system, data migration tools, and catalog sharing make AutoCAD Electrical easier than ever to learn and use.
promis•e Data Migration
Users of promis•e® software can avoid hours of rework by easily migrating designs into AutoCAD Electrical design software using the promis•e data migration tool. AutoCAD Electrical 2012 enhances this powerful tool to simplify and accelerate the data migration process.
Project-Specific Catalog Database
AutoCAD Electrical 2012 makes it easier for you to share catalog data from projects with your clients, or collaborate with other departments to specify which catalog selections to use. Users can now create a project-specific catalog database by including just the relevant portion of the catalog database that was used for this project. This command starts with the default_cat.mdb database and removes all catalog values not used in the project drawings.
Award-Winning Software:
For seven consecutive years, AutoCAD Electrical has been the winner of the Control Design Readers’ Choice Award in the category of ECAD software.
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