AutoCAD Electrical

AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Working From Home
By Miles Nicholson Where companies have multiple users operating AutoCAD® Electrical, they will have shared librarie...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Where’s the Promis.e Conversion Utility?
By Miles Nicholson In AutoCAD® Electrical 2020, you may be trying to locate the Promis.e Conversion Utility and noti...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Using 7-Zip to Publish Your Project
By Miles Nicholson 7-zip is a little unusual in associating as the default zip utility within AutoCAD® Electricall. Y...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Panel Layout Drill Cut-out Drawings
By Miles Nicholson A panel layout drill cut-out drawing shows where the drill holes are for a backplate or an enclos...
AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text Value
by Miles Nicholson   When creating new parts or editing parts in the default_cat.mdb, the user has the ability to pu...
AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Adding New Catalogue Content to AutoCAD Electricals’ SQL Database
By Miles Nicholson The Cadline Localiser provides additional manufacturers content that can be migrated into the Cat...
AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Modular Terminal Blocks
By Miles Nicholson A symbol such as a terminal with multiple levels and electronic components can be quite complex....
AutoCAD Electrical - Creating a New 3-Pole Device in the Library
By Miles Nicholson A 3 phase device is made up of a parent and 2 children symbols. The child must be named exactly t...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – What’s The Architectural (ARC) Schematic Library?
By Miles Nicholson Not available within the standard installation of AutoCAD® Electrical and only available from Cadl...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Using the Fan-In/Out Function
By Miles Nicholson Fan-In / Out is a description given to where multiple cores or wires converge into one line repre...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 - Utilising a Client Title Border Within AutoCAD® Electrical
By Miles Nicholson   Quite often clients will request that you use their title border. Furthermore they often insist...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Converting “Dumb” Drawings Into AutoCAD® Electrical Intelligent Drawings
By Miles Nicholson Have you ever had to recreate drawings from scanned images, PDF’s or from files that you thought...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Inserting Connector Tables
By Miles Nicholson Connector tables show the connections and the required detail of the connectors drawn within the ...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Adding Trunking Size Information Into Panel Reports
By Miles Nicholson The Cadline Localiser contains dynamic trunking and DIN rail. There are 12 trunking commands depe...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Shaded Trunking Within Panel Layouts
By Miles Nicholson The Cadline Localiser contains dynamic trunking and DIN rail. There are 12 trunking commands depe...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Create Wire Colour/Gauge Information From Your Existing Wire Types
By Miles Nicholson The following article explains how you can utilise Wire Colour / Gauge Labels. Wire colour / gauge...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 - 3 Phase Wire Types and Numbering
By Miles Nicholson When drawing multi-phase wires, AutoCAD Electrical only allows you to choose one wire type for th...
AutoCAD Electrical/Autodesk Vault - Electrical Bill of Materials Grouped by Installation/Location Within Autodesk® Vault Professional
By Miles Nicholson Autodesk® Vault Professional’s Item Master automatically extracts the part information from an Au...
AutoCAD Electrical - Unable to communicate with the Project Database Service
By Florentina Stirbu Multiple users have reported that after installing updates for Windows 7 and Windows 10, the fo...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Defining Manufacturer And Catalogue Information From A Previous Project
By Miles Nicholson You can pick manufacturers parts from parts previously defined in another project easily! When you...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – PLC Database: Category Field Is Either Empty Or Missing Error
By Miles Nicholson If you get the above error when creating a new parametric PLC in the PLC database, it’s because A...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Displaying Optional Accessories On Your Symbols
By Miles Nicholson The default attributes within a schematic block for manufacturer and part information are display...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 - Title Block Update
It’s easy to update a title block with revised project descriptions! To change the project descriptions > right clic...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Easily Locate Wire Source/Destination Signal Errors
By Miles Nicholson When your design is constantly changing, you can easily miss a source or destination arrow that is...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Compare the Differences Between Your Schematics and Layouts
By Miles Nicholson Did you know you can compare the differences between your schematics and your layout drawings and ...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Electrical Title Borders In Accordance with BS EN ISO 5457
By Miles Nicholson BS EN ISO 5457 is the technical specification for technical product documentation, their sizes and...
AutoCAD Electrical 2019 – Components With Two or More Footprints (e.g. Isolator / Handle)
By Miles Nicholson A component within AutoCAD Electrical normally has one footprint. Even an assembly of parts will ...
AutoCAD Electrical 2020 – Creating a New Nameplate
By Miles Nicholson AutoCAD® Electrical has built in nameplate footprints that can automatically assume the tag and d...
Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2019: Browse to a certain location
By Anite Ramgi  The Icon Menu has component symbols which you can add to your drawing. You can add components by cho...
AutoCAD Electrical 2019 – Dynamic Block Authoring – Linear Stretch Example
By Miles Nicholson  Dynamic block authoring is really useful to make a symbol inserted into a drawing adaptable on t...