AutoCAD Electrical – ARKANCE EMEA

AutoCAD Electrical - ARKANCE Localiser Overview

By Miles Nicholson The following is a general overview of the ARKANCE Localiser and its functionality. More detail a...

By Miles Nicholson The Wire Trunking Size Calculator is now available for download from Cadline Community. The file i...

AutoCAD Electrical - Drawing Values In Signal & Component Referencing

By Miles Nicholson Here’s how you can do it! Right click over the current activated project in the Project Ma...

AutoCAD Electrical - X Zones or XY Grid Setup

By Miles Nicholson When working with a client’s border or when creating a new border from scratch, AutoCAD Electri...

AutoCAD Electrical - Link Components With Dashed Link Line Command

By Miles Nicholson The Link Components with Dashed Link Line command available on the Schematic ribbon tab > Insert...

R.I.P. Toolbars - AutoCAD Electrical

By Miles Nicholson Autodesk have removed the classic toolbars preferred by many especially in the “vanilla” A...

Add/Remove Features from your AutoCAD Electrical

By Miles Nicholson Are your IEC libraries missing? Have you only installed AB, ABB and ANIXSTER as manufacturers c...

AutoCAD Electrical - Tracing a Connection of a Wire

By Miles Nicholson It’s easy to inadvertently turn off SNAP so it can be easy to have connections that don’t jo...

AutoCAD Electrical - Wiring into Busbars

By Miles Nicholson On mains wiring, you may have your phase connections wired directly to the busbars. You effe...

Re-Tag Individual Components - AutoCAD Electrical

By Miles Nicholson An interesting support call came in where the customer wanted to only retag a specific type of co...

AutoCAD Electrical 2015 - Creating a New Cable in the Parts Database

By Miles Nicholson AutoCAD Electrical’s 2015 parts database looks significantly different from the previous release....

AutoCAD Electrical 2015 - Inserting Symbols from the Catalogue Browser

By Miles Nicholson The Catalog Browser is the new interface for accessing catalogue content. The Catalog Browser is s...

AutoCAD Electrical 2014 - 3D Top Hat Rail Ducting

The following 3D dynamic commands are available on the new Cadline Localiser (v2014) eXtras ribbon bar. When used wit...

AutoCAD Electrical - Troubleshooting Tools

Have you ever had issues or problems with your drawing files inside of AutoCAD Electrical and can’t explain what the ...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – Quality AND Quantity

By Miles Nicholson Customers often ask what the quality and quantity of output will be when AutoCAD® Electrical is i...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – Corporate Customisation

By Miles Nicholson Nearly all‐large companies sub-contract out aspects of their design process and to ensure that ...

AutoCAD Electrical 2018 – Saving A Circuit

By Miles Nicholson You can save groupings of components, wires, ladders, and other entities as circuits. Like blocks...

AutoCAD Electrical 2016 – Aligning Your Wire Numbers to the Wire

By Miles Nicholson This AutoCAD Electrical white paper looks at aligning your wire numbers to the wire.

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – How To Create A Multiple Column Drawing Index Sheet

By Miles Nicholson Reports such as Drawing List Report can mean due to the quantity of data require reports to be spl...

AutoCAD Electrical 2018 – Customising Reports

By Miles Nicholson Reports within AutoCAD Electrical can easily be manipulated. This Tips & Tricks document shows yo...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – Drawing Your Schematics from an Estimate

By Miles Nicholson AutoCAD Electrical has the ability to draw schematics or panel assembly drawings from an estimate....

AutoCAD Electrical 2018 – Globally Changing Drawing Card Information

By Miles Nicholson When a client requests a slight change to the title border information or when you have made a ...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Assigning Mandatory & Optional Accessories

Component parts can have mandatory and optional accessories. As an example, a plug-in relay always requires a socket ...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 – Adding a Manual Part

By Miles Nicholson If a part is added into the default_cat.mdb parts database, then the part will be available for al...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Translation

AutoCAD Electrical has a built in “translator” within the software. This is effectively a word and phrase swap facil...

AutoCAD Electrical 2017 - Cables List: Sorting Out Multiple Combinations

One of the most common requests by customers is to have cable from‐to lists. However, when running reports, you may h...

AutoCAD Electrical 2023 – Copy Project

By Miles Nicholson This facilitates the ability to create a new project without any project setup time from a templat...

AutoCAD Electrical 2018 - Wiring Block Creation

By Miles Nicholson A wiring block is a symbolical representation of the actual physical device but contains wiring in...

AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Fixing / Freezing Your Wire Numbers

By Miles Nicholson

AutoCAD Electrical 2018 – Automatic Report Generation

Within AutoCAD Electrical you can either create and view a report one at a time or you can set up report groups with...