AutoCAD Electrical
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AutoCAD Electrical 2018 – Master Projects with Sub-projects
By Miles Nicholson
You might wish to divide a project that contains hundreds of pages into smaller groups of drawings...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2023 – IEC Symbols Guide
By Miles Nicholson
Following on from the following previous blog about “What Symbols are contained within the Librar...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Find and Replace Attribute Information
By Miles Nicholson
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You can find and replace attribute text across your enti...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – Alternative Family Name Catalogue Lookup
By Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD Electrical uses the family name of a block to open up the correct table in the database. E...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Creating a User-Definable Cross Reference Style
By Miles Nicholson
The default method of cross referencing is to use the Graphical Format which is defined in the Pr...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Table Styles – Deleting the Inch Option
By Miles Nicholson
This has nothing to do with losing weight after the festive period but deleting the inch optio...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - DWG Audit
By Miles Nicholson
The (AEDWGAUDIT) command detects problems related to wires and wire numbers, corrects them, and d...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Setting up a Special Wire Numbering System
By Miles Nicholson
This AutoCAD Electrical White Paper looks at Setting up a Special Wire Numbering System. Your...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Flip / Rotate Component
By Miles Nicholson
This AutoCAD Electrical White Paper looks at the Flip / Rotate Component command which is a usefu...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Peer to Peer Cross Referencing
By Miles Nicholson
Many customers are not only responsible for producing the electrical drawings but also the ins...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – How to Create a From/To List Showing Wire Size & Colour
By Miles Nicholson
Wire types can be defined within your company template by either function and/or wire colour an...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – How To Fix Overlapping Wires / Lines
By Miles Nicholson
Depending on how you draw wires, you may have drawn wires made up of segments. Whilst this has ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Setting Up Company Standards
By Miles Nicholson
All companies have a way in which drawings are produced, which can affect everything from the w...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Adding a Terminal into the Parts Database & Associating a Footprint
By Miles Nicholson
Adding a part into the parts database is easy but in order for the terminal editor to draw the te...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – Peer to Peer
By Miles Nicholson
Nowadays, many customers are not only responsible for producing the electrical drawings but also ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Wire Colour / Gauge Labels
By Miles Nicholson
The following tips and tricks describes how the Wire Colour/Gauge feature works inside of Auto...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Creating a New Wire Type
By Miles Nicholson
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Overriding Your Component Tags
By Miles Nicholson
AutoCAD Electrical automatically numbers your component tags in line with the projects numbering...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 - Interfacing with a Terminal Design Software
By Miles Nicholson
To download the full whitepaper, please use the link below:
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 - Creating Reports with a Company Standard Header
By Miles Nicholson
Any report can be produced as an ASCII, CSV, XLS, MDB or XML. When exporting to Microsoft Excel, ...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Adding a Table to the Catalogue Database
When assigning parts inside of AutoCAD Electrical, it automatically searches on the family type for the correct compo...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Importing TAGS from an External Source
By Miles Nicholson
The tags or identification codes of components may be defined by the client or indeed a different...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Consultancy
By Miles Nicholson
Staff training is a top priority when it comes to the professional introduction of CAE systems....
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 – Adding a New Part into the Parts Database
By Miles Nicholson
The white paper explains the structure of the parts database along with explaining how to manipu...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Cut, Copy, Paste!
By Miles Nicholson
In previous releases of AutoCAD Electrical, when you wanted to copy a circuit from one dra...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Eaton Catalogue Content Updated
By Miles Nicholson
A new update for Eaton components is available from the Autodesk web site.
This update inst...
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AutoCAD Electrical 2015 - Linking Components with a Dashed Link Line
By Miles Nicholson
The command links selected components with a dashed line. When two or more components are linke...
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Integrating AutoCAD Electrical &Vault Professional
This White Paper will show you how to configure Autodesk Vault Professional to communicate with AutoCAD Electrical. Y...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Item Resequencing Technology Preview on Autodesk
By Miles Nicholson
I wrote in my blog about this particular technology preview back in May but didn’t mention...
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AutoCAD Electrical - Search & Replace Values of the <>.WDP
By Miles Nicholson
Whilst there has been a lsp utility on the AutoCAD Electrical forum that allowed users to search ...