Autocad Electrical Schematic Symbols Library ((EXCLUSIVE)) Download
Remona Lostetter
Lots of flexibility there, but not the most user friendly interface, in my humble opinion. Of course, it may just be that this is not the way I am used to doing things, coming from so many years of using plain AutoCAD for all of our schematics. It may even go all the way back to having all of my symbols right in front of me on one of those massive tablets we used to use back in the day.
In AutoCAD Electrical, symbols are graphical representations of electrical standard parts in the library. Symbol represents a standalone standard part or the subset of a component in a particular project.
the only thing I would add is that you have an opportunity to re-think your workflow and design process to capitalise on the strengths of Creo schematics. 40,000 symols is a LARGE library to generate and maintain, even if you have the starting geometry from AutoCAD. I would re-iterate Jim's point:do you need 40,000 symbols, do you use all of these symbols? Do you want to take this opportunity to adopt an industry standard for graphical symbols such as IEEE315:1975 or ISO60617?
We have tranisitioned libraries from AutoCAD to Creo schematics for customers, but in practice it comes down to the relative grid sizes used in each system and how much manipulation of the geometry is required. The imported symbols will have to be scaled to ensure the interconnect points sit on the connection grid and then ports (Creo Schematics connectivity artifacts) will have to be added to the symbol shapes. This is going to take a bit of time for 40,000 symbols.
I wanna draw the schematic (electrical drawing) using Autodesk autocad electrical 2010. but from the library in the autocad electrical 2010, i can only selects PLCs like allenbradley, Siemens etc... Does NI provide a library for this autocad?
for eg. in the autocad, i can just choose PLC from Siemens category, then choose either S300 series, S400 series, Their IO cards to be placed in my schematic etc... But what i need is controllers like cRIO 9022, IO cards like NI 9213 etc etc...
For example, if i choose from the autocad libary, i "place" the digital output card into my schematic; i will choose the rack number, the slot number etc; then the software will place the power terminal, the output terminals for me (based on the type of card i chosen). THEN i can connect wires to those terminals as well as set the properties of that particular card that i placed into the schematic. For what i see now, i can choose from a list of Siemens, Allen-bradley, honeywell etc etc.
Previously, i was a Siemens PLC users. Now, i am trying to push NI into my new company, so, i need the so called "library" to let the electrical department able to draw their schematic without creating their own NI PACs block or connectors.
Please see the pics i attached above. For eg. In the autocad, i can choose from a list of libraries, then add the digital output card into my schematic. Then, it will be something like the jpeg shown. Then i will just need to connect the terminal to maybe power to 24VDC terminals, then signal output terminals to my, maybe relays etc. This ease a lot of workload for the electrical team, at the same time, minimise errors.
But, the libraries i had in the autocad electrical from autodesk does not have National Instrument cRIO controllers and cRIO IO cards. So i am thinking issit that i have to get the libraries from NI, and import it into my AutoCad software?
Edited: If i have the library, i can just choose things like ---- PAC > NI cRIO > NI 9421. Then place it on my schematic, then i will have a digital input card, with 8 channels input terminals. The things that i need to do next is just to connect up these terminals according to my electrical design. This is better than i have to create my own library for all the IO cards for National Instruments.
AutoCAD Electrical has a huge library of custom symbols and catalog information. However, most companies find that they need to create items that are customized for their unique needs. Having this data in a strategic or shared location can reduce rework and help to streamline your drawing process.
Well of course, you can share your project data! However, you can also share new schematic and panel symbols you have created. You can store saved circuits, PLC modules, report templates, catalog database, project and drawing templates, custom menus and images used in the menus to name a few. In fact, if you have your own standard anything, you should isolate it and share with your team.
What I am getting at is that I have to manually add these fields to all the symbols so that this information is available on the schematics.
Perhaps you'd like to consider adding these properties to the Component class, which is the parent class of all components. That way, any new component sub-class you create, will automatically have these properties.
Then you only have to display the LOC on the symbols that do not appear in the default LOC.
Using the Location symbol (at the bottom of the symbol library) may be worth considering.
For example, used in conjunction with Autodesk Inventor 3D modellingsoftware, it guarantees a consistency and reliability of build in the key areaof electrical circuitry. Done manually, the electrical or mechanical engineerwill receive a schematic and decide at manufacturing stage the best route foreach of the many hundreds or more wires.
However, as the above examples show, such consistency delivers significantbenefits to the end-user of the equipment as well as to the originalmanufacturer. It is essential therefore that specifiers play their part indriving increased automation, by insisting that all suppliers of similarequipment all use the same design software, numbering conventions and symbolslibrary.
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