Top Benefits Include:

• Ships with Over 2,000 Standards Based Schematic Symbols. AutoCAD Electrical provides a simple menu driven system for inserting electrical and pneumatic devices, allowing you to quickly create controls designs by selecting commonly used devices from a menu. The comprehensive symbol library includes devices such as: Electrical Symbols, Push buttons, Selector switches, Pilot lights, Relays, Contacts, Fuses, Terminals Pneumatic Symbols, Valves, Regulators and Filters
• Automatic Wire Numbering and Component Tagging. Automatically assign wire numbers and component tags in your drawings and reduce the time you spend tracking design changes, resulting in fewer errors. AutoCAD Electrical will automatically place sequential or reference-based numbers on all wires and components based on the chosen configuration. AutoCAD Electrical can determine if an inserted wire number will “bump” into anything and will automatically search laterally along the wire for a clear spot to land the wire number. If no clear spot is found, AutoCAD Electrical continues to search for a clear spot away from the wire, and when found, automatically draws a ladder back to the wire.
• Automatic Report Generation. Drastically reduce the time required to manually generate and update reports while removing associated errors. Report Generation in AutoCAD Electrical is simple with automatic reports that cover everything from Bill of Materials (BOM) to From/To wire lists. The report function also allows users the option of generating multiple reports with a single command.
• Re-use Existing Drawings. Get a head start on your design projects by reusing drawings from another project. Make a copy of a specific part or re-use an entire drawing set when starting your new design. Commonly used circuits can be saved for re-use in future designs and AutoCAD Electrical will automatically re-number the wires and devices to match the configuration of the current drawing or project in which they are placed. You can also reduce design time and errors by re-tagging all components in a project with a single command.
• Real-time Coil and Contact Cross-referencing. Reduce the risk of assigning too many contacts to any relay and minimise the time spent manually tracking assignments. AutoCAD Electrical sets up parent/child relationships between coils and contacts, keeping track of how many contacts are assigned to any coil or multi-contact device, and alerting users when they’ve exceeded the limit.
• Create Smart Panel Layout Drawings. Simplify panel layout drawing creation to reduce errors and help ensure that all parts are placed, and drawings are automatically updated. Once the schematic creation phase is complete, AutoCAD Electrical extracts a list of schematic components for placement into panel layout drawings. Users choose the panel location and a physical “footprint” representation of each device to be inserted into the layout and a “link” is automatically created between the device and its representation. Any changes to the schematic or panel representation will update the other. Non-schematic items, like wire duct and mounting hardware, can be added to the layout and automatically combined to create a “smart” panel BOM report.
• Electrical Specific Drafting Features. Slash design time by using commands designed specifically for electrical controls designers. AutoCAD Electrical includes drafting features developed specifically for creating electrical controls designs. Specialised features such as trim wire, copy and delete component or circuit, and scoot and align components make it much easier to create drawings quickly.
• Automatically Create PLC I/O Drawing From Spreadsheets. Automatically create PLC I/O drawings from the design data stored in a spreadsheet AutoCAD Electrical gives users the ability to generate a comprehensive set of PLC I/O drawings by simply defining the project’s I/O assignments in a spreadsheet. AutoCAD Electrical then automatically creates drawings, complete with ladders per the drawing configuration, I/O modules, addresses and description text, and component and terminal symbols connected to each I/O point.
• Share Drawings with Customers and Suppliers and Track Their Changes. Easily exchange data with customers or suppliers in native DWG format. AutoCAD Electrical drawings can be viewed and edited by any DWG compatible program such as AutoCAD, or AutoCAD LT® software. When you get drawings back from outside sources, AutoCAD Electrical can create a report of what was done to them while they were out of your control. Also, when your design process reaches the point where a new revision is to be issued, AutoCAD Electrical can create a report of changes made to the drawings since the last revision update.
• Support for Multiple Design Standards. Generate electrical controls designs by utilizing the standards required by your customers. AutoCAD Electrical supports the JIC, IEC, JIS, and GB design standards. Users can make configuration selections to choose symbol libraries, cross-reference settings, wire and device tagging conventions, and much more to meet the local design requirements.

Minimum System Requirements:

The following recommendations apply to AutoCAD® Electrical software. Note that Microsoft® Windows® XP Starter Edition and Tablet PC Edition are not supported at this time.

32-bit Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor recommended
  
• Microsoft® Windows® XP (Professional or Home Edition (SP2) or Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, Premium, and Basic
  
• 512 MB RAM
  
• 2.5 GB free disk space for installation*
  
• 1024x768 VGA with true colour
  
• MS Mouse-compliant pointing device
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1) or higher
  
• Installation from DVD or CD-ROM
  

*Additional system requirements apply for Autodesk Vault and the Data Management Server

64-bit Requirements

• AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T, or Intel Pentium 4 with EM64T support
  
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  
• Windows VISTA 64 bit
  
• 1 GB RAM (more than 1.5 preferred)
  
• Supports Windows display adapter capable of 1024x768 VGA with true colour capabilities; Open GL and DirectX 9
  
• 2.75 GB of free disk space
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or higher
  
• MS-Mouse compliant pointing device
  
• DVD

Autodesk Data Management Server (ADMS)

• The following recommendations apply to Autodesk Data Management Server software. (These requirements are in addition to any system requirements for individual applications.)

Recommended System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium 4, Xeon®, or AMD Athlon™ processor, 2 GHz or better processor
  
• 1GB RAM, or more
  
• 60 GB free disk space, or more

Preferred System Requirements

• Pentium 4, Xeon, or AMD Athlon processor, 2 GHz or better processor
  
• 2 GB RAM or more
  
• 120 GB free disk space, or more
  

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft® Windows Vista™2
  
• Microsoft Windows® XP Professional3 32/64 bit
  
• Microsoft Windows 20003 Professional 32 bit (SP4)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server® 20001 32 bit (SP4)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard1 32/64 bit (SP1)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard1 R2 32/64 bit
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise1 32/64 bit (SP1)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R21 32/64 bit
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SB Edition1 32/64 bit (SP1)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SB Edition R21 32/64 bit
  

Supported Databases

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Desktop Edition, MSDE (SP3a, SP4)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Standard Edition (SP3a, SP4)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Enterprise Edition (SP3a, SP4)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express (SP0, SP1)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Workgroup (SP0, SP1)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard (SP0, SP1)
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (SP0, SP1)
  

1 For best performance on servers, Autodesk recommends a dedicated member (non-domain controller) server

2 Limited to a maximum of 10 concurrent requests (Data Management queries). In order to a support large number of additional requests or users, Autodesk recommends a server operating system along with the server version of Microsft SQL Server 2000 (Standard or Enterprise Edition), or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup, Standard, or Enterprise Edition). In order to use these other SQL Versions, you must purchase this software separately from Microsoft or a Microsoft reseller.

3 Limited to a maximum of 10 concurrent connections (Data Management queries). In order to a support large number of additional requests or users, Autodesk recommends a server operating system along with the server version of Microsft SQL Server 2000 (Standard or Enterprise Edition), or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup, Standard, or Enterprise Edition). In order to use these other SQL Versions, you must purchase this software separately from Microsoft or a Microsoft reseller.

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