Electrical design is the process of planning and creating electrical equipment, such as electrical components, schematics, lighting equipment, power systems, and telecommunications infrastructure. Electrical design software and tools address the specific workflows for electrical controls systems designers.
An electrical schematic is a type of electrical design that provides a graphical depiction of an electrical circuit. Its primary purpose is to show how the components of a circuit are laid out and interconnected, rather than to show a realistic, scaled representation of a finished engineering or architectural project. Electrical schematics may also be referred to as circuit diagrams.
A wiring diagram shows the components of an electrical circuit within a realistic drawing of the finished device or architectural project. A schematic drawing, on the other hand, only diagrams the components and their interconnections, and does not illustrate their physical layout in the finished project.
CAD software is an essential tool for creating electrical drawings, electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and many other forms of electrical design. Builders and makers use products like AutoCAD to create the electrical design for household devices like laptops and video game consoles to architectural projects like houses and office buildings.
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Electrical design software is used by systems designers for planning and creating electrical equipment, addressing specific workflows. Electrical design software such as AutoCAD allows electrical engineers to design integrated systems in a fraction of the time normally required when creating the process by hand.
An electrical schematic is a type of electrical design that provides a graphical depiction of an electrical circuit. Its primary purpose is to show how the components of a circuit are laid out and interconnected, rather than to show a realistic, scaled representation of a finished engineering or architectural project. Electrical schematics are sometimes referred to as circuit diagrams.
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But, when I went to download the Education version and it showed all of the products available, there was no separate Autocad Electrical download link. However, the link to download Autocad said "Includes access to Autocad Architecture, Electrical..."
Okay, can someone help actually solve this issue? Every student in the world going for electrical engineering needs this. Don't put a bad taste in the mouth of us, students, we're the future lively hood for your company. If we all end up disliking you because of bad product support, we're going to express that opinion at every company we work at.
I was searching all over the site and forums for awhile now. I've finally found it. (may not work for all)
I went on the home page, logged in first of all. Then there's the little account icon at the top of the website, I clicked on it. Then I clicked on the "products and services" link. Then I saw the "AutoCAD - including specialized toolsets". There was a "view items" next to it. When I clicked on it, it FINALLY displayed AutoCAD electrical and other toolkits I don't need. I was then able to download it from there.
Ok I can't find anywhere for how to set up reference inside projects. I just want my parent components to reference where it's child components are. Currently all I am getting is "???" I do have a custom title block but I tried opening a blank autocad title block and dropping some components in and it doesn't reference them either. I take it there is something that has to be set up but I just can't find it. I want the cross reference to mach my title block.
If it's part of the project you might try to use the Cross Reference Update in the schematic tab. There are cross reference formats you can set up in Project/Drawing properties. I attached those. If those don't help can you attach your symbols? Someone with more experience might know but I could try to insert them into one of my projects to test.
First, your title block has a grid around it. However, it looks like you're wanting to use ladder references. This is a little confusing. When you said earlier that you were wanting to get your cross references to match your title block, were you meaning that you wanted them to reference the grid that it has?
Ladder referencing and grid referencing can't be used simultaneously in the same drawing. You'll have to pick one. Once we know what your needs are, we can get you together a little better. (Also, you can't erase a ladder if you want cross referencing to work, and cross referencing can't reference anything that is inside a block..i.e. the grid in your title block. Ladders have to be drawn fresh and must be independent entities, not part of a larger block. This is true for both line ladders and grid references.)
For a drawing, simply enter SETTINGS (or AEPROPERTIES) on the command line. This will give you a dialog box from which you can define all sorts of things -- such as your referencing style. However, these settings will only affect the current drawing.
For a project, you'll need to have the Project Manager open. Inside the Project Manager, right-click on the necessary project and then select 'Properties'. This will take you to a dialog box that is almost exactly like the one for drawing properties: the differences are mainly in the first tab. Any settings you define here *should* get pushed into all of the drawings that are part of that project. (NOTE: right-clicking on a drawing from here takes you to the drawing properties dialog, not the project properties dialog.)
To compare settings, again you'll go through the Project Manager. Whichever project is active, just click on it to expand it and see all of its drawings. Right-click on any one of them, go to 'Properties', then select 'Settings Compare'. This will give you a dialog that highlights any differences between the settings in that drawing and the settings in the project it's in. There are also buttons where you can match settings, either from project to drawing, or the other way around.
That said, I'm leaning towards all this being caused by you wanting to use the grid that exists in your title block. If that's the case, it'll have to change. More than likely, you'll either have to A) remove the title block's grid, or B) figure out how to define a grid that exactly matches and also lines up with the title block's grid.
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