AutoCAD Electrical
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - User Defined List
by Miles Nicholson
The User Defined List allows the user to insert either schematic or panel symbols from a pick l...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Customising the Edit Wire Number Dialogue
by Miles Nicholson
When you select Edit Wire Number, you have 10 user attributes that you can define. These are tit...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Optional Symbol Attributes
by Miles Nicholson
The attributes defined within a symbol define the intelligence of the symbol and how AutoCAD® Ele...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Parametric PLC Functionality Is Not Just For PLC’s!
by Miles Nicholson
The parametric PLC functionality is fantastic for automatically creating symbols. By defining par...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Splitting a Symbol Block
by Miles Nicholson
Any symbol or block can be split and the collective parts of the block separated into two or more...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Associating a ZIP Program For Project Compression
by Miles Nicholson
This month’s Tips and Tricks focuses on how you can associate a ZIP program to the software so th...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – What is the Architectural Library?
by Miles Nicholson
A Cadline specific AutoCAD® Electrical library has been developed for the architectural schematic...
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AutoCAD Electrical - “Syntax error in CREATE INDEX statement" Whilst Migrating Catalogue Database
by Miles Nicholson
When migrating the catalogue database in AutoCAD® Electrical from one release to another, a messa...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Intelligent Location Boxes
by Miles Nicholson
Did you know that a location box is intelligent which therefore means that components are “locati...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Unhiding the Hidden Messages
by Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD® Electrical and indeed any version of “One” AutoCAD® display messages during operation. W...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Incremental Flexible Wire Numbering
by Miles Nicholson
The 3 Phase Wire Numbers command is not just for 3 or 4 phase wires and can be used on a greate...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Report Fields
by Miles Nicholson
When running a report within AutoCAD® Electrical, have you ever wondered what each available fiel...
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Inventor / AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Defining Electrical Intelligence to a 3D Part
by Miles Nicholson
The following article shows you how to define electrical intelligence to a 3D Inventor part. The ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Drawing a PLC Rack, Slot & Sub-Slot Within the Schematic Drawings
by Miles Nicholson
In some industries, it is quite popular to draw individual inputs or outputs as separate symbol...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Wire Jumpers / Links
by Miles Nicholson
This following explains how you can create wire jumpers or links that connect between two or mor...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – From-To Connection Report Incorrect When Using Angled Connections
by Miles Nicholson
Although IEC61082 allows a variety of connections from T connection with no dot, T connection w...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – How To Add An Auxiliary Contact Block To A Contactor Or Relay
by Miles Nicholson
When you insert a symbol such as a relay or contactor, the pin information and therefore the asso...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Component Descriptions are Blank in a Bill of Materials Report
by Miles Nicholson
If you produce a bill of materials and the descriptions of the part are blank, there are several ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Changing the Default Appearance
by Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD® Electrical has its ribbons in a dark shade as a default and the Uniform Background as a ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Splitting Attribute Values Across Multiple Lines
by Miles Nicholson
Generally within AutoCAD® Electrical each component’s attribute data is displayed on a single lin...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Cross Referencing a Circuit Breaker with a Shunt Release Circuit
by Miles Nicholson
The IEC60617 standard doesn’t show every type of component and quite often you have to group symb...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Internal Jumpers Within A Component
by Miles Nicholson
An Internal Jumper is an internal connection between two terminals/pins within a schematic compo...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Wire Connection Order
by Miles Nicholson
Whilst AutoCAD® Electrical automatically produces wire from/to information, the sort criteria f...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2025 – Manual CAD vs. AutoCAD Electrical – SLD Workflow
by Miles Nicholson AutoCAD Electrical can speed up the production of single-line diagrams (SLDs) by automating repeti...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2026 – Enhanced Cable Markers
by Miles Nicholson
Cable marker symbols in the schematic library for all the existing standards are now updated to...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2012 - Importing a DWG Footprint Assigning Intelligence
by Miles Nicholson
Although AutoCAD Electrical adds intelligent attributes on the fly to dumb symbols, you may wish ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2026 – Enabling Wire Number Annotations Update
By Miles Nicholson
In AutoCAD Electrical 2026, you can now use project-wide or drawing-wide wire number updates to u...
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AutoCAD Electrical – Terminal Blocks with Electronic Components
By Miles Nicholson
IEC60617 defines the symbology required for drawing electrical schematics, but sometimes the stan...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2024 - 60 Tips in 60 Minutes
By Miles Nicholson
Autodesk University 2023 will be held on Monday, November 13 through Wednesday, November 15 in La...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2024 – What is the WDA file?
By Miles Nicholson
The WDA file is a text file which contains additional attribute information you wish to report o...