Brief Description

This workshop and accompanying manual is intended for engineers and technicians who need to have a practical knowledge for ACAD and ACAD Electrical Like create schematic drawings, panel drawings, and PLC/IO circuits using automated commands for symbol insertion, component tagging, wire numbering, and drawing modification.

Students will be introduced to methods to customize AutoCAD Electrical symbols, circuits, and databases. Other topics covered include title block linking, reporting tools, templates, and project files etc.

The objectives of the workshop and manual are for you to be able to:

Be able to understand basic ACAD concepts and Design tools.

Be able to understand basic ACAD Electrical Concepts and Design tools.

Benefits of Electrical-Specific CAD. Why to Move from ACAD to ACAD Electrical.

Be able to interpret and understand electrical systems drawings.

Be able to understand international standard symbols libraries i-e JIC, IEC, GB, JIS and AS.

Be able to understand Automation in ACAD-Electrical i-e Automatic Wire Numbering, Component Tagging, Project Reports, BOM, Real Time error checking, PLC I/Os, Automatic Tracking of components parts etc.

Design and interpretation of Electrical Drafting standards like JIC, IEC, GB, IEEE etc.

Course Documentation

Training material documents (Hard form at the time of registration)

Course Exercises

Post Course open Book test

Complete Project Designing in ACADE.

Software installation and Setup

ACAD Electrical 2015

Course Contents

Introduction to AutoCAD General

AutoCAD General Overview

ACAD General Environment

ACAD General Control tools Panels.

ACAD Drafting Design Tools and commands.

ACAD Drafting Design Tools Controls

Introduction to AutoCAD Electrical

AutoCAD Electrical Overview

What is AutoCAD Electrical?

Drawing Files

Electrical Components and Wires

Design Methodologies in AutoCAD Electrical

Project Manager

Project Files

Project Manager Interface

Accessing Project Files

Projects and Drawing Files

Opening a Drawing

Create a Drawing

Add a Drawing to a Project File

Managing Drawings in Projects

Project Manager Drawing List

Schematic Drawings

Schematic Drawing formats

Ladder Style Diagrams

Point-to-Point Diagramming

Wires

Insert Wires

Edit Wires

Add Rungs

Wire Setup

Wire Numbers

Source and Destination Signal Arrows

Schematic Symbols

Symbols Libraries

Switching Between Libraries

Insert Component

Parent/Child Components

Components editing

Swapping Libraries

Linking Components

3-Phase Circuits

3-Phase Ladders

Multiple Wire Bus

3-Phase Components

3-Phase Wire Numbering

Cables Markers and Fan In/Out

Reusing Circuits

Circuit Builder

Insert Saved Circuits

Save Circuits to Icon Menu

W block Circuits

Move Circuit

Editing Commands

Component Editing

Edit Component

Project Task List

Scoot

Move Component

Copy Component

Align

Delete Component

Surfer Command

Attribute Editing Commands

Terminals

Terminal Schematic Symbols

Insert Terminal Symbols

Multiple Level Terminals

Multiple Insert Component Command

Insert Jumpers

Terminal Panel Footprints

Terminal Strip Editor

DIN Rail Command

PLC I/Os and Symbols

PLC Symbols

Insert PLC (Parametric)

Insert PLC (Full Units)

Insert Individual PLC I/O Points

PLC Based Tagging

Point-to-Point Wiring Drawings

Connectors and Splices

Insert Connectors

Edit Connectors

Insert Splices

Wiring Tools

Insert Wires

Bend Wires

Symbol Creation

Symbol Builder

Schematic Symbols

Naming Convention

Icon Menu Wizard

Databases

AutoCAD Electrical Databases

Project Database

Catalog Database

Footprint Lookup Database

PLC Database

Pin List Database

Terminal Properties Database

Project-Wide Update/Retag

Project-Wide Utilities

Plot Project

Export and Update from Spreadsheet

Copy Project

Swap/Update Block

Panel Diagram layout

Footprints and Symbols

Converting footprints from PDF to DWG

Using catalog for footprints.