AutoCAD Electrical
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Hiding/Unhiding Multiple Attributes
By Miles Nicholson
The context sensitive right click marking menu offers you commands that are specific to the type...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Enforcing Company Standard Favourites in the Catalogue Browser
By Miles Nicholson
Can I have a company standards favourite list of parts deployed to all AutoCAD Electrical...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Overview Of Creating A Symbol / Part / Footprint / Wiring Diagram
By Miles Nicholson
When creating a new symbol for the schematics, you should also consider creating a new part fo...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – How To Draw Panel Terminals Prior To A Schematic Representation (Reverse Engineering)
By Miles Nicholson
The following video shows you how you can place panel terminals down in an assembly, panel layou...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Deleting Duplicated Objects
By Miles Nicholson
When using legacy drawings drawn in AutoCAD you may find objects under one another or where line...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – “Synchronization Was Not Successfully Completed” Error Message
By Miles Nicholson
One possible reason to cause the error message is a side by side installation of AutoCAD and Aut...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Schematic Terminal Annotation
By Miles Nicholson
If you insert schematic terminals using the Multiple Insert commands, there are new options in Au...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – My Symbols Are Too Large / Small
By Miles Nicholson
The following video explains how to check whether you have configured your project properties cor...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Editing Multiple Components
By Gus Petrikas
If you ever find yourself in a position were you have to change a property of a component after you ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - What Symbols are contained within the Libraries of AutoCAD Electrical?
By Miles Nicholson
Do you want to know what symbols exist in some of the default symbol libraries that come out of...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Useful Part Information for AutoCAD Electrical Users
By Miles Nicholson
Apart from our own website where you have access to over 100+ million drawing footprints, I thoug...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Swapping or Updating a Title Border Project Wide
By Miles Nicholson
The following video shows you how to swap or update a title border within a project - project w...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – A Complete Bill of Materials
By Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD Electrical’s reporting features are extremely flexible giving the user the ability to cu...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 – Swapping the Source & Destination Arrows
By Miles Nicholson
The wire number from a source-arrowed wire network copies to all associated destination-arrowed w...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 – Changing the Default Surfer Zoom
By Miles Nicholson
Changing the Default Zoom in the Surfer
To change the surfer zoom ratio:
Open your DWT templ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Peer to Peer Parents
By Miles Nicholson
The PEER_ fields in the Pin List database specify pin list assignments for a single part number ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Wire Sequence Sort Order
By Miles Nicholson
One of the new features in AutoCAD Electrical 2016 changes the way that wires are sequenced. T...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 – I’m Working Offline, Where is My Help?
By Miles Nicholson
If you try and access the Help when you have no internet connection, the following message wil...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 – Purging Your Project & Minimising Your File Sizes
By Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD’s PURGE command will allow you to clear out data from your AutoCAD file structure that...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Fixing Potential Cross Reference Errors
by Miles Nicholson
The following video shows you how to resolve potential cross reference issues with your projects....
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Item Number Resequencing for AutoCAD Electrical
By Miles Nicholson
When you want to innovate, there are 7 questions you can ask to generate some ideas:
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AutoCAD Electrical - Stretching a Symbol
By Miles Nicholson
The command Stretch PLC Module can be utilised on any symbol (block) de...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 - Problems Migrating Catalogue Data
By Miles Nicholson
In AutoCAD Electrical 2015, the catalogue (default_cat.mdb) database structure is slightly differ...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Why Should You Upgrade To The Latest Release?
By Miles Nicholson
You may feel that your current version of software is adequate for your companies needs bu...
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AutoCAD Electrical- Split Component TAGs
By Miles Nicholson
The normal attribute used for a parent component tag is TAG1 with the child being TAG2. However...
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AutoCAD Electrical - 3D Top Hat Rail / Ducting
By Miles Nicholson
3D dynamic commands are now available on the new Cadline Localiser (v2014) eXtras ribbon bar.
...
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AutoCAD Electrical-Malformed String On Input
By Miles Nicholson
A few customers have reported a “malformed string on input” after Windows has performed some auto...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Which electrical symbols library should I use?
By Miles Nicholson
Which electrical symbols library should I use?
When you install AutoCAD Electrical you have mult...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Additional Tips & Tricks
By Miles Nicholson
Autodesk has launched a new blog, Point-to-Point, to reach the Systems Design community and pro...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2018 – AutoCAD Electrical Helps To Enforce Standards
By Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD has long had the functionality to set standards for layer names, dimension styles, and o...