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AutoCAD Electrical 2007
AutoCAD Electrical 2007
AMS | CAD Consulting Group
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2. AutoCAD Electrical 2007 What is it?
Intelligent electrical controls design
Fully native DWG
Open and extendable
The only logical choice for electrical controls design
AutoCAD Electrical 2007
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3. Benefits of Electrical CAD Provide accurate control system designs in less time
Design more accurately in less time
Comprehensive symbol library based on International standards
Real time error checking and alerts
Build smart panel layout drawings based on schematic contents
Re-use designs and rapidly respond to customer changes
Automatically update title blocks project wide
Instantly renumber wires and components
Copy and paste circuits with automatic updates
Ship your products on time
Eliminate costly design errors before they hit the shop floor
Automatically generate accurate wire labels to expedite the build phase
Automatic Bill of Material reports ensure all parts are ordered
AutoCAD Electrical 2007
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4. Customer Issue 1 Solution
Creating electrical controls designs with generic software is limiting your productivity
Solution
AutoCAD Electrical software helps automate many of the manual tasks associated with creating accurate industry standard electrical controls system designs.
Comprehensive symbol libraries
Smart panel layout drawings
Automatic PLC I/O drawings
Graphical terminal strip layouts
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5. Comprehensive Symbol Libraries
Customer Need Quickly build standards based controls designs
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Symbol libraries based on International standards
JIC, IEC, GB, JIS, AUS
Automated insert component process
An immediate benefit that users will realize with AutoCAD Electrical is the ability to use one of the many comprehensive standards based symbol libraries that ship as part of the product.
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6. Create Smart Panel Layout Drawings
Customer Need Panel layout drawings that match the corresponding schematic design
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Panel layout drawings driven by schematic content
Link between schematic and panel components
Changes to one automatically update the other
Once the schematic creation phase is complete, AutoCAD Electrical extracts a list of schematic components for placement into panel layout drawings. Users choose the panel location and a physical “footprint” representation of each device to be inserted into the layout and a “link” is automatically created between the device and its representation. Any changes to the schematic or panel representation will update the other. 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 report.
Benefit:
Simplify panel layout drawing creation to reduce errors and ensure that all parts are placed, and drawings are automatically updated.
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7. Automatic PLC I/O Drawings
Customer Need Eliminate redundant tasks involved in designing a PLC I/O system
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Automatic PLC I/O drawing generation from a spreadsheet
PLC I/O address and description report exported to PLC program 1
AutoCAD Electrical gives users the ability to generate a comprehensive set of PLC I/O drawings by simply defining the project’s I/O assignments in a spreadsheet. AutoCAD Electrical then automatically creates drawings, complete with ladders per the drawing configuration, I/O modules, addresses and description text, and component and terminal symbols connected to each I/O point. If a module doesn’t fit in a column, AutoCAD Electrical automatically breaks it at the bottom of the ladder and continues it at the top of the next ladder column or on to the next drawing. In addition, once the drawings are created, the I/O information with descriptions can be exported to a format that most PLC programming software packages can read in.
Benefit:
Automatically create PLC I/O drawings from the design data stored in a spreadsheet.
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8. Generate Graphical Terminal Layouts
Customer Need Terminal plans that match the schematics
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Automatic generation of graphical terminal strips
Automatic terminal wiring information
Optional tabular format
AutoCAD Electrical gives users the ability to automatically generate graphical representations of terminal strips for use in panel layout drawings or terminal plans.
Benefit:
Slash design time by automatically generating graphical terminal strip layouts based on schematic design information.
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9. Customer Issue 2 Solution
Errors reaching the shop floor are causing delivery delays
Solution
Reduce the mistakes introduced by manually tracking design information with AutoCAD Electrical’s automatic error checking capabilities.
Real time error checking
Coil and contact cross-referencing
Automatic wire numbers and component tags
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10. Real Time Error Checking
Customer Need To eliminate design errors before build phase begins
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Design audit and repair utility
Automatic notification of
Duplicates
Resolution suggestions
AutoCAD Electrical monitors and alerts users to potential design errors as they occur by constantly comparing the requested changes with the current project.
Benefit:
Avoid costly errors at build time by catching and eliminating the errors during design.
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11. Real Time Coil and Contact Cross-Referencing
Customer Need Error free use of relays
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Automatic
Tracking of relay coils and contacts
Updates to all related devices
Alerts when number of contacts are exceeded
Flexible display formats
Relay on one Drawing
Contacts on Others
AutoCAD Electrical sets up parent/child relationships between coils and contacts, keeping track of how many contacts are assigned to any coil or multi-contact device, and alerting users when they’ve exceeded the limit. It can assign the next available set of terminal pin numbers to each inserted child contact based upon the parent coil’s assigned part number. Cross referencing information can be automatically displayed in a graphical, numerical, or table format.
Benefit:
Reduce the risk of assigning too many contacts to any relay and eliminate the time spent manually tracking assignments.
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12. Automatic Wire Numbering and Component Tagging
Customer Need Unique wire numbers and component tags
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Referenced or sequential based numbering
Flexible numbering formats
Automatically adds a suffix to duplicates
AutoCAD Electrical automatically places sequential or reference based numbers on all wires and components based on the chosen configuration. Reference-based numbers and tags automatically receive a suffix to ensure unique names (i.e. 406, 406A, 406B) and numbering conventions are flexible enough to meet most design requirements. AutoCAD Electrical can determine if an inserted wire number will “bump” into anything and will automatically search laterally along the wire for a clear spot to land the wire number. If no clear spot is found, AutoCAD Electrical continues to search for a clear spot away from the wire, and when found, automatically draws a ladder back to the wire.
Benefit:
Automatically assigns wire numbers and component tags in your drawings and reduces time spent tracking design changes, resulting in fewer errors.
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13. Customer Issue 3 Solution
Components are not ordered correctly because of inaccurate BOMs
Solution
AutoCAD Electrical provides the ability to instantly generate accurate BOM reports directly from the design to ensure all required components are purchased
Automatic project reports
Manufacturer content catalogs
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14. Automatic Project Reports
Customer Need Instant and accurate reports
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Reports include
Bill of Materials
From/To Wire Lists
Cable Lists
Terminal Reports
Much More…
Multiple report generation with a single command
Flexible export options
Report Generation in AutoCAD Electrical is simple with automatic reports that cover everything from “Bill of Materials” to “From/To wire lists”. The report function also allows users the option of generating multiple reports with a single command. Once the report or reports have run, the user has several options; from including the data directly into the drawing to saving it to one of several different file formats.
Users have the ability to run several different types of reports including BOM, From/To wire lists, PLC I/O, terminal plans, cable summaries, and cross-referencing reports. Reports can be customized to display relevant information by sorting and filtering available fields. Reports can be run on a current drawing, a collection of drawings, the entire project, or on a specific location or panel in a project. Reports can be placed into a drawing as a smart table object that can be easily updated at a later time or be saved to a file. AutoCAD Electrical supports saving reports out into ASCII, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, CSV or XML formats.
Benefit:
Drastically reduce time required to manually generate and update reports while eliminating associated errors.
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15. Manufacturer Catalog Content
Customer Need Manufacturer catalog data at their fingertips
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Comprehensive catalog of manufacturer content
BOM data
Footprint drawings for panel layout drawings
Component specific data such as pin information
AutoCAD Electrical ships with a manufacturers catalog database that contains over 45,000 components from the industry’s most popular vendors.
These components provide a full spectrum of input and output devices including switches, sensors, lights and numerous panel devices, such as wireway and panel enclosures.
Benefit:
Streamline the design process by using real manufacturer catalog data.
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16. Customer Issue 4 Solution
Sharing designs with downstream users is error prone and difficult
Solution
Because AutoCAD Electrical is part of the AutoCAD® family you can share your designs in the native DWG format and ensure that your data will not be compromised by third party conversion tools
Ability to share drawings and track changes
Autodesk Vault
Project publishing to html web pages
Link to Autodesk Inventor Professional
Link to Autodesk Productstream
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17. Share Drawings and Track Changes
Customer Need Easily share drawings with downstream users
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
DWG files compatible with downstream AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT users
Ability to track and report changes
AutoCAD Electrical drawings can be viewed and edited by any DWG compatible program such as AutoCAD®, or AutoCAD® LT. When you get drawings back from outside sources, AutoCAD Electrical can create a report of what was done to them while they were out of your control. Also, when your design process reaches the point where a new revision is to be issued, AutoCAD Electrical can create a report of changes made to the drawings since the last revision update
Benefit:
Easily exchange data with customers or suppliers in native DWG format.
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18. Publish Projects to the Web
Customer Need Quickly and easily collaborate with customers and suppliers
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Ability to
easily publish electrical projects as html based web pages
share and exchange designs with customers and suppliers
Publish DWF files
AutoCAD Electrical has the ability to publish your designs to the Internet via HTML. These features allow you to better collaborate with your customers and vendors. AutoCAD Electrical takes your project and automatically creates the HTML pages and links needed to post your complete design to the web. If you choose, users can also "drag and drop" these drawings straight from the web into a "live" AutoCAD session. These drawings will maintain their complete AutoCAD Electrical intelligence.
Benefit:
Quickly share and exchange drawings or entire projects with AutoCAD Electrical’s publish to web interface.
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19. Data Management
Customer Need Ability to manage data without compromising current workflow
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Project or drawing level Vault operations
Drawings checked out from Vault as they are needed
Built in work-in-progress data management
Means to
Organize and re-use designs
Protect and secure your critical
Vault
Autodesk Vault is a centralized data management application for workgroups that securely stores and manages work-in-progress design data and related documents.
Benefit:
Maximize return on your company’s investment in design data by driving design re-use.
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20. Productstream Integration
Customer Need AutoCAD Electrical BOM information in Autodesk Productstream
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Automatic AutoCAD Electrical BOM data from Productstream
Automate the release management and change order management processes while allowing you to maintain control over the design data.
Benefit:
Ensure your company’s designs are complete, accurate, approved and released to manufacturing in a timely and effective manner.
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21. Customer Issue 5 Solution
It’s difficult to manually add electrical controls information into 2D mechanical designs or 3D models
Solution
Because AutoCAD Electrical is part of the Autodesk Manufacturing Solution you can easily incorporate your electrical controls designs into 2D or 3D designs in less time
XML data exchange with Autodesk Inventor Professional
Build 3D models from 2D schematics
Build 2D schematics from 3D models
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22. Link to Autodesk Inventor Professional
Customer Need
Re-use existing electrical design data
AutoCAD Electrical Delivers
Direct XML data exchange
Creates and places connectors in AutoCAD Electrical
Automatic wire routing
AutoCAD Electrical users can pass electrical intent information for cables and conductors to Autodesk Inventor Professional for the automated creation of a 3D harness design. Much in the same manner, Autodesk Inventor Professional users can now pass wire connectivity information to AutoCAD Electrical for the automatic creation of the corresponding 2D schematics.
Benefit:
Create accurate 2D and 3D electrical designs in less time by passing wire connectivity information to and from AutoCAD Electrical and Autodesk Inventor Professional.
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