AutoDesk AutoCAD Electrical 2010 Introduction

     

Course Type

Private:

This outline is available as a private course. Please contact us to arrange this course at a venue and date of your choice.

Course Overview

This course provides an overview of many AutoCAD Electrical 2010 utilities designed to enable users to quickly create and manage electrical-controls production drawings. Users focus on how to build intelligent ladder diagrams and panel layouts, and how to leverage the intelligence built into AutoCAD Electrical. Hands-on exercises representing real-world design scenarios for the IEC (international) standard are included.

Prerequisites

• Delegates should have a working knowledge of the following:
• A recent version of AutoCAD
• Electrical drafting, design, or engineering principles
• Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP

Objectives

Delegates will be able to:

• Use the customisation and productivity enhancing tools available in AutoCAD Electrical to improve electrical project design and management processes.
• Navigate the AutoCAD Electrical user interface.
• Manage projects and the multiple drawing and inter-drawing relationships contained in electrical projects.
• Insert and annotate schematic symbols.
• Insert wires, add wire numbers, manage circuits, and create point-to-point wiring diagrams and drawings.
• Edit drawings project wide with commands that are specific to the electrical design environment.
• Extract information from drawings to create Bill of Material, Wiring, and other reports.
• Create and annotate panel layout drawings with lists of components that are extracted from schematic drawings and with other specific panel layout tools, such as the Terminal Strip Editor.

Course Content