AutoCAD Electrical

AutoCAD Electrical

For an Electrical Engineer to succeed in today’s global marketplace, knowledge of electrical control designs is a must. An Electrical Engineer must have knowledge of AutoCAD Electrical and can no longer afford to rely on generic software applications to get the job in the current electrical design industry.

AutoCAD Electrical Training Course Overview

The training helps the candidates in understanding the procedure of building the intelligent ladder diagrams and panel layouts and how to leverage this intelligence. Through this training the candidates would be able to gain hands-on experience on implementing the intelligence so that they would be able to deal with the real time scenarios. Moreover, the AutoCAD electrical course enables the overview of the AutoCAD Electrical’s utilities that are designed to allow the end user to quickly build and manage an electrical control drawing set.

After completing this AutoCAD electrical training Course, the candidates would be able to:

• Navigate AutoCAD Electrical user interface
• Defining the AutoCAD Electrical project wide functions, including wire numbering and cross-referencing
• Develop an understanding to build intelligent panel layout drawings from schematic data
• Learn how to create the multi-drawing, AutoCAD Electrical project
• Learn the procedure to create the AutoCAD Electrical drawings from spreadsheet data
• Develop an understanding to create the intelligent ladder wiring diagram
• Develop an understanding of the basic electrical reports, including Bill of Materials, wire number, cable, and PLC reports
• Learn to create the customized AutoCAD Electrical library symbols, schematic and panel layout

AutoCAD Electrical Training Course Content

1. Introduction to AutoCAD Electrical

• • Working with the User Interface
  • Types of Electrical Drawings
  • Electrical Components and Wires

2. Project Files

• • Project Manager Interface
  • Opening and Creating Drawings
  • Managing Drawings in Projects

3. Schematics I – Single Wire/Components

• • Ladders, Wires and Rungs
  • Wire Setup and Numbering
  • Source & Destination Signal Arrows
  • Parent /Child Components

4. Schematics II – Multiwire and Circuits

• • Dashed Link Lines
  • Phase Ladders and Circuits
  • Cable Markers and Fan In/Out
  • Circuit Builder

5. Editing Commands

• • Editing Components
  • Surfer Command
  • Catalog Assignments
  • Installation/Location Code Values

6. Panel Drawings

• • Insert Footprint and Components
  • Editing Footprint
  • Assign Item Numbers and Balloons

7. Terminals

• • Multiple Level Terminals
  • Jumpers and Terminal Strip Editor
  • DIN Rail Command

8. PLC Symbols

• • Parametric and Full Units PLCs
  • PLC Points
  • PLC Based Tagging
  • Spreadsheet to PLC I/O Utility

9. Point –to-Point Wiring Drawings

• • Connectors and Splices
  • Multiple Wires and Bend Wires

10. Symbol Creation

• • Schematic Symbols
  • ICON Menu Wizard
  • Project and Catalog Database
  • PLC And Pin List Database

11. Title Blocks
12. Reporting Tools

• • Electrical Audit

13. Settings and Templates

• • Panel Drawing Configuration
  • Sharing Symbol Libraries & Database

14. Drawing Update Tools

• • Project Wide Utilities
  • Working with Spreadsheets
  • Swap/Update Block
  • Mark and Verify Drawings