AutoCAD Electrical has always been a great tool for engineers and designers to deliver professional work. It is the most popular software of choice for designing and developing professional electrical drawings, PLC diagrams, control and power circuits, and mechanical drawing in any industry.

In this comprehensive course, you will learn all about the AutoCAD Electrical toolset and toolbar options which helps you design PLC modules, panels, control cabinets, wiring diagrams, and more. We will learn how to create accurate and standards schematics and electrical drawings step by step.

The summary of each section content is listed below:

Introduction to the Interface

AutoCAD Electrical Interface

using templates to create new drawings

Covering the Interface of AutoCAD electrical and how to use

Methods to zoom in or zoom out on the screen

Project Manager

How to create projects and new drawings and how to work with them

Wire and wire numbers

The wire is the needed tool to get started with drawing

Inserting wire and modifying it such as stretching, trimming

Inserting wire at angles

How to work with wire numbers and how to edit wire numbers

How to use wire marker

How to use cable marker

How to work with Signal source and destination that is an essential tool to apply wire cross-referencing

Wire numbering in three-phase

Working with Fan-in and Fan-out tool, the helpful tool to converge multiple wires into one line

How to use Wire gap and tee marker is presented

Checking wire or tracing the wire is the other helpful part that provides the method to reduce the mistakes of your drawing

You will learn how to use the PLC file editor database

How to use Excel Spreadsheet to PLC I/O Utility and how to automate the creation of plc drawings

How to export information from the created drawing to the spreadsheet

How to edit the data of the PLC spreadsheet

Ladders

This is an essential tool that is commonly used during drafting.

Creating ladders

Adding Rungs

Modifying ladders and scooting

Drawing Shapes and how to use the status bar

How to draw new shapes such as circles, rectangles, and so on, learning this part can be helpful for creating new symbols in the next sections

Working with the status bar is another useful option to facilitate the procedure of drawing

Components

The most useful part in creating circuits,

How to insert components and use catalog browser

Editing components including moving. scooting, copying, aligning, and deleting them

How to use multiple insert tools to insert components

The parent and child component need to be learned, and how to create a parent-child relationship is provided in this section

Working with attributes of components and editing them

How to create multiple buses for components and also wires is explained

Panel

Creating footprints and editing them

Adding balloon and working with it

Describing din rail and how to insert it

Connector

Describing connector as a component and how to insert and edit it

Inserting break in connectors and how to split them

Using parent and child connectors

Connectors using point to point

Circuits

Saving circuits by using Wblock

How to save your circuit to the Icon menu

Inserting the saved circuits

Building and configuring a circuit using circuit builder tool to create and insert your circuit with the right attributes automatically

Terminals

This is one of the most widely used peripherals in the electricity industry which is available in AutoCAD electrical

Inserting terminals and using the schematic list to insert them

Copying terminal block properties

Editing Jumpers

PLC

Another useful equipment that is widely used to control industrial process and AutoCAD electrical provides this module to use it in your drawings

You will learn how to insert PLC and PLC full unit modules

How to insert PLC module as a parent and child

Tagging plc based on PLC input output

Symbols

the useful feature in AutoCAD electrical when a symbol is not available in the icon menu and you need to create a new symbol to use in your drawing

You will learn how to create new symbols and add new symbols to the icon menu

Title Blocks

You will learn How to edit or update your title block automatically instead of editing it manually

Report

- How to prepare a report of your circuit including information on the components

- Using missing catalog data tool to display the catalog data which is missed

- How to use an Electrical audit tool to detect the problems of incomplete components or wires

- Using dwg audit tool to detect the errors related to wire connections

Are you ready to start the journey to learn a new skill?