AutoCADElectrical 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, PLCdiagrams, 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. PLCsymbols 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 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?