AutoCAD

Electrical

Quick Start Guide

Welcome to AutoCAD Electrical. This Quick Start Guide is designed to familiarize you with the installation and use of AutoCAD Electrical software. AutoCAD Electrical is AutoCAD software for controls designers, purpose-built to create and modify electrical control systems. It contains all the functionality of AutoCAD, one of the worlds leading CAD software products, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating control engineering tasks, such as building circuits, numbering wires, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Electrical provides a library of more than 650,000 electrical symbols and components, includes real-time error checking, and enables electrical and mechanical teams to collaborate on digital prototypes built with Autodesk Inventor software. We hope you enjoy working with AutoCAD Electrical. We believe that after only a few hours, you will be convinced that AutoCAD Electrical will give you a competitive edge by increasing your design efficiency, reducing errors, and minimizing repetitive manual tasks. Thank you, The AutoCAD Electrical Team

Quick Start Guide

Installation Guide
For installation, you will need: AutoCAD Electrical Media Windows Media Administrative Rights 32-bit Systems CPU Windows 7 or Windows Vista: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon Dual Core, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology 2 GB Ram 4 GB (5 GB if .NET is not installed) 64-bit Systems AMD Athlon 64 or Opteron with SSE2 technology; Intel Pentium 4 or Xeon with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology

Memory Disk Space

2 GB Ram 4.5 GB (5 GB if .NET is not installed)

Installing AutoCAD Electrical Download AutoCAD Electrical software and run setup.exe. The wizard will guide you through a step-by-step process to help you with the installation.

Click on Install Products and choose AutoCAD Electrical.

You may also select additional products to install.

Select the manufacturer content you wish to install along with the application.

Click on the Configure button to specify Project Default Standard (JIC/IEC/GB/JIS), Symbol Libraries, License Type, Installation Type, and Service Packs, if any.

Click on Install to begin installation, and Finish when done.

Getting Up to Speed with AutoCAD Electrical

Ribbon Interface AutoCAD Electrical features a streamlined user interface. The ribbon user interface is designed to help you access your favorite tools and commands faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover relevant new features more easily. The result is less time searching through menus and toolbars, and more time getting your work done. The following guide is a handy reference that will help to familiarize you with the location of many AutoCAD Electrical commands.

Right-clicking at these locations on the ribbon pops up context-sensitive menus. By right-clicking at the appropriate location you can: dock and undock the ribbon hide panels to optimize space on the ribbon bar unhide panels show and hide panel titles show and hide tabs customize the ribbon To hide the ribbon, enter the command RIBBONCLOSE. To view the traditional dropdown menus, enter the command MENUBAR and enter a value of 1. To hide the traditional drop-down menus, enter the command MENUBAR and enter a value of 0.

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Locating Commands on the Tabs The ribbon is composed of a series of panels, which are organized into tabs labeled by task. Ribbon panels contain many of the same tools and controls available in toolbars and dialog boxes. The tabs and panels illustrated below are the ones displayed by default upon installation. The plus sign at the end of the command indicates that there are additional commands available from that panel item. Project Tab

Project Manager Copy Project Delete Project Zip Project Project-Wide Update/Retag Project-Wide Utilities Mark/Verify DWGs

AEPROJECT AECOPYPROJECT AEDELETEPROJECT AEZIPPROJECT AEPROJUPDATE AEUTILITIES AEMARKVERIFY

Surfer Previous DWG Next DWG Migration Utility Language Conversion Edit Language Database Title Block Setup Title Block Update

AESURF+ AEPREV AENEXT AEMIGRATION AELANG AELANGDB AESETUPTITLEBLOCK AEUPDATETITLEBLOCK

Schematic Tab

Icon Menu Circuit Builder Multiple Insert Insert PLC Insert Connector Insert WBlocked Circuit Location Box

AECOMPONENT+ AECIRCBUILDER+ AEMULTI+ AEPLCP+ AECONNECTOR+ AEWBCIRCUIT+ AELOCATIONBOX+

Edit Components Delete Component Scoot Toggle NO/NC Reverse Connector Copy Component Retag Components

AEEDITCOMPONENT+ AEERASECOMP AESCOOT+ AETOGGLENONC AEREVERSE+ AECOPYCOMP AERETAG+

Insert Wire Multiple Wire Bus Insert Wire Numbers Signal Arrow Insert Ladder Cable Markers Wire Number Leader

AEWIRE+ AEMULTIBUS AEWIRENO+ AESOURCE+ AELADDER+ AECABLEMARKER+ AEWIRENOLEADER+

Link Components

AELINK+

Swap/Update Block Component CrossReference Copy Circuit Move/Show Attribute

AESWAPBLOCK AEXREF+ AECOPYCIRCUIT+ AEATTSHOW+

Insert Dot Tee Markers

AEDOTTEE+

Panel Tab

Insert Footprint (Icon Menu) AEFOOTPRINT+ Insert Balloon Wire Annotation of Panel Footprint Insert Panel Assembly AEBALLOON AEWIREANNOTATION AEPANELASM

Edit Footprint Copy Footprint Resequence Item Numbers Delete Footprint Copy Installation Code

AEEDITFOOTPRINT AECOPYFOOTPRINT AERESEQUENCE AEERASECOMP AECOPYINST+

Symbol Builder Icon Menu Wizard Panel Configuration

AESYMBUILDER+ AEMENUWIZ AEPANELCONFIG+

Terminal Strip Editor Terminal Strip Table Generator

AETSE AETSEGENERATOR

Reports Tab

Schematic Reports Show Missing Catalog Assignment Electrical Audit Drawing Audit Signal Error/List Report Location Box

AESCHEMATICREPORT AEMISSINGCATREPORT AEAUDIT AEAUDITDWG AESIGNALERRORREPORT AELOCATIONBOX+

Panel Reports

AEPANELREPORT

Automatic Report Selection Report Format File Setup User Defined Attribute List

AEAUTOREPORT AEFORMATFILE AEUDA

Link Components

AELINK+

Import/Export Data Tab

Unity Pro Export to Spreadsheet Spreadsheet to PLC I/O Utility Update from Spreadsheet Insert Spreadsheet Data to Table RSLogix 500 Export to Spreadsheet

AEUNITYPROSS AESS2PLC AEIMPORTSS AEINSERTSSTABLE AERSLOGIX

Autodesk Inventor Professional Export Unity Pro Export Export to Spreadsheet

AEAIPEXPORT AEUNITYPRO AEEXPORT2SS

Update from Project Scratch Database AEIMPORTDB

Conversion Tools Tab

Promise Conversion Add Geometry Add Wire Connections Special Explode Convert Ladder Change Attribute Size

AEP2E AEGEOMETRY AEWIRECONN AEEXPLODE AE2LADDER AEATTSIZE

Tag Schematic Component Tag PLC Tag Child Tag Child - N.O. Tag Schematic Terminal Terminal Number Tag Schematic Component Tag PLC Tag Child Tag Child - N.O. Tag Schematic Terminal Terminal Number

AETAGSCH AETAGPLC AETAGCHILD AETAGNO+ AETAGTERMINAL+

Link Descriptions Link PLC Address Descriptions Link Terminal Number Link Manufacturer Link Catalog Number Link Location Code Link Installation Code

AELINKDESC AELINKPLC AELINKTERMINAL AELINKMFG AELINKCAT AELINKLOC AELINKINST

Change/Convert Wire Type AECONVERTWIRETYPE+

Xdata Editor

AEXDATA

Convert to Schematic Component Block Replacement Convert Text to Wire Numbers Add Attribute Map Attributes from Old to New Stretch Wire

AEBLK2SCH+ AEBLOCKREPLACE+ AETEXT2WIRENO+ AEATTRIBUTE AEMAPATT AESTRETCTWIRE

AETAGSCH AETAGPLC AETAGCHILD AETAGNO+ AETAGTERMINAL+

Link Split Tag Link User Link Rating Link Item Number

AELINKSPLITTAG AELINKUSER AELINKRATING AELINKITEM

Show Links Un Link

AESHOWLINK AEUNLINK

For a complete mapping of the ribbon icons to AutoCAD Electrical commands, please refer to AutoCAD Electrical Help and look for the Ribbon Interface topic within the chapter AutoCAD Electrical: Whats New. AutoCAD Electrical Help can be invoked by selecting the Help icon on the upper right, or selecting the drop-down arrow to display a menu of help options and clicking on Electrical Help Topics.

Getting Started with AutoCAD Electrical

If you are new to AutoCAD Electrical, please refer to the electronic version of our Getting Started Manual, which can be accessed in the Help Menu. This manual provides information on accessing AutoCAD Electrical commands, setting up and working with projects, setting up and creating ladder-style and point-topoint diagrams, generating reports, and other features for dramatically increasing your productivity.

In addition to the Getting Started manual, AutoCAD Electrical provides further learning resources such as tutorials, new features information, and links to online support.

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