Learn how to work with the AutoCAD Electrical toolset inside AutoCAD to design wiring, circuiting, PLC modules, panels, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Working with AutoCAD Electrical
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- The new AutoCAD Electrical 2022 interface
- Prerequisite courses in the library
- Explore the AutoCAD Electrical user interface
- Use the AutoCAD Electrical ribbon
- Right-click marking menu
- The AutoCAD Project Manager
- Drafting Settings dialog box
- Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
- Open projects
- Open drawings
- Use AutoCAD Electrical template files (DWT) to add new drawings
- Manage project paths and file paths in AutoCAD Electrical
- Use zoom and pan
- Use the mouse
- Navigate project drawings
- Access project files and drawings
- Create a new electrical drawing in a project
- Add a regular drawing to a project file
- Manage drawings in projects with the project drawing list
- Use ladders in a drawing
- Insert and edit wires
- Add rungs to ladders
- Number wires
- Source and destination signal arrows
- Insert components
- Parent and child components
- Use dashed link lines
- 3-phase ladders
- Multiple Wire Bus dialog
- Use 3-phase components
- Number 3-phase wiring
- Use cable markers
- WBLOCK circuits
- Work with saved circuits
- Add saved circuits to the icon menu
- Copy and move a circuit
- Use the Circuit Clipboard
- Use the Circuit Builder
- Edit with the marking menu
- Use the Project Task List
- Use the SCOOT command
- Move components
- Copy components
- Align components
- Delete components
- Use the Surfer command (AESURF)
- Use the Copy Catalog Assignment
- Copy installation and location code values
- Use the attribute editing commands
- Use Insert Footprint (Icon Menu)
- Use Insert Footprint (Schematic Menu)
- Insert Component (Manufacturer Menu)
- Edit panel footprints
- Assign item numbers and add balloons to panels
- Insert terminal symbols into drawings
- Use multiple-level terminals
- Insert jumper terminals
- Create a jumper chart
- Use the DIN Rail command
- Insert a PLC (parametric)
- Insert a PLC (full units)
- Insert PLC I/O points
- Tag PLC symbols
- Use the Spreadsheet to PLC I/O function
- Insert and edit connectors
- Use and insert splices
- Use and insert multiple wires
- Bend wires
- The Symbol Builder
- Insert standard attributes
- Insert wire connection attributes
- Save the new symbol
- Insert the new symbol
- Add new symbols to the Icon Menu
- Update titleblocks
- Set up AutoCAD Electrical titleblocks
- Working with revision clouds
- Save to external files
- Put reports on drawings
- Configure report templates
- Run automatic reports
- Use the Electrical Audit command
- Set project properties
- Set drawing properties
- Set the panel drawing configuration
- Set up a template file
- Update and retag projects
- Use project-wide utilities
- Plot projects
- Export projects to spreadsheets
- Update a project from a spreadsheet
- Copy a project
- Swap and update blocks
- Mark and verify drawings
- Using the new Trace feature
- Using the COUNT command in AutoCAD Electrical
- Using floating drawing windows
- Sharing your current drawing
- Next steps
Taught by
Shaun Bryant