Overview
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Learn the essential skills of AutoCAD Electrical toolset, which offers automated drafting tools for designing wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Working with the AutoCAD Electrical Toolset
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Prerequisite courses in the library
- The AutoCAD Electrical 2023 interface
- Using the ribbon and the right-click marking menu
- The Project Manager
- Drafting Settings dialog box
- Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
- Opening projects
- Opening drawings
- Using AutoCAD Electrical template files to add new drawings
- Managing project paths and file paths in AutoCAD Electrical
- Using zoom and pan
- Using the mouse right-click settings
- Navigating and surfing project drawings
- Accessing project files and drawings
- Creating a new electrical drawing in a project
- Adding new drawings to a project file
- Managing drawings in projects with the project drawing list
- Using ladders in a drawing
- Adding rungs to ladders
- Inserting and editing wires
- Numbering wires
- Source and destination signal arrows
- Inserting components
- Parent and child components
- Using dashed link lines
- Three-phase ladders
- Multiple Wire Bus dialog
- Using three-phase components
- Numbering three-phase wiring
- Using cable markers
- WBlocking circuits
- Working with saved circuits
- Adding saved circuits to the icon menu
- Copying and moving a circuit
- Using the Circuit Clipboard
- Using the Circuit Builder
- Editing with the marking menu
- Using the project task list
- Scooting and aligning components
- Moving components
- Copying components
- Deleting components
- Using the Surfer command (AESURF)
- Using the Copy Catalog assignment
- Copying installation and location code values
- Using the attribute editing commands
- Using Insert Footprint: Icon Menu
- Using Insert Footprint: Schematic Menu
- Insert Component: Manufacturer Menu
- Editing footprints
- Assigning item numbers and adding balloons to panels
- Inserting terminal symbols into drawings
- Using multiple level terminals
- Inserting jumper terminals
- Creating a jumper chart
- Using the DIN Rail command
- Inserting a PLC: Parametric
- Inserting a PLC: Full Units
- Inserting PLC I/O points
- Tagging PLC symbols
- Using the Spreadsheet to PLC I/O function
- Inserting and editing connectors
- Using and inserting splices
- Using and inserting multiple wires
- Bending wires
- The Symbol Builder
- Inserting standard attributes
- Inserting wire connection attributes
- Saving the new symbol
- Inserting the new symbol
- Adding new symbols to the Icon Menu
- Updating title blocks
- Setting up AutoCAD Electrical title blocks
- Working with revision clouds
- Saving to external files
- Putting reports on drawings
- Configuring report templates
- Running automatic reports
- Using the Electrical Audit command
- Setting project properties
- Setting drawing properties
- Setting the panel drawing configuration
- Setting up a template file
- Updating and retagging projects
- Using project-wide utilities
- Plotting projects
- Exporting projects to spreadsheets
- Updating a project from a spreadsheet
- Copying a project
- Swapping and updating Blocks
- Marking and verifying drawings
- Using the new Trace functionality
- Using the COUNT command in AutoCAD Electrical
- Using floating drawing windows
- Sharing your current drawing
- Next steps
