AutoCAD Electrical

The Electrical toolset is included with AutoCAD. Efficiently create, modify, and document electrical controls systems with an industry-specific toolset for electrical design.

The AutoCAD Electrical Toolset adds electrical design features to help you create, modify, and document electrical controls systems.

• Create panel layouts, schematic diagrams, and other electrical drawings using specialized tools.
• Use consistent project standards with drawings organized in a project-based structure.
• Includes a library of 65,000+ intelligent electrical symbols to support AS, GB, IEC, IEC-60617, JIC, JIS, NFPA, and IEEE standards.

Benefits of the Electrical toolset

In this study, the Electrical toolset boosted productivity by up to 95%,* bringing dramatic time savings to common AutoCAD® electrical design tasks.

In this productivity study, you will see how the Electrical toolset saves time through features including:

• A simple icon-menu-driven system which includes over 2,000 standards-based schematic symbols.
• Placing sequential or reference-based numbers on wires and components based on the chosen configuration with automatic ID tag generation.
• Setting up parent/child relations between electrical component symbols.
• Commands specifically designed for electrical schematic drawings.

Download the Electrical Toolset Productivity Study

Features

Electrical documentation

Automatic report generation

Generate and update customized reports.

Customer and supplier collaboration

Easily share DWG™ drawings with stakeholders.

Easily manage projects

Use folders to organize drawings and reorder files for electrical drafting projects.

PDF publishing

Publish schematics to multipage PDFs.

Electrical schematic design

Wire numbering, component tagging

Reduce errors with automatic numbers for wires and tags for components.

Circuit design and reuse

Use Circuit Builder for simple electrical design.

Electrical schematic symbol libraries

Select from a rich library of electrical symbols.

Real-time error checking

Catch problems before the build phase begins.

Electrical controls design

Coil and contact cross-referencing

Keep track of parent/child contacts in real time.

PLC I/O drawings from spreadsheets

Define a project's I/O assignments.

Catalog Browser for parts

Enhanced preview and direct component insertion.

Interoperability with Inventor

Integrated mechatronics solution with Inventor.