Description

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.

Forough Jahangard is a professional Electrical engineer with years of experience both in the industry and academic setting. She will be showing you how to design ladder diagrams, wiring, develop custom symbols and add annotations to your drawing. You will learn how to create title blocks and run reports professionally. PLC symbols and creating automatic ladder diagrams is one of the most useful features in AutoCAD electrical that you will get the chance to master in this course.

The content of this course is being constantly updated and the other needed sections will be added.

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 drawing 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 number 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

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 circle, rectangle, 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 using catalog browser
   Editing components including moving. scooting, copying, aligning, and deleting them
   How to use multiple insert tool 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?
Who this course is for:

   AutoCAD Drafters
   AutoCAD Engineers
   Electrical Engineers
   Control & Instrumentation Engineers
   Students
   Teachers
   Researchers
   Anyone interested in industrial design

Requirements

   AutoCAD Electrical (2016-2017-2018-2019, 2020, 2021)

Last Updated 3/2021