AutoCAD Electrical 2006 - Seminar

AutoCAD Electrical 2006 - Seminar Advanced Micro Systems, Inc.

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What is AutoCAD Electrical 2006?

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Intelligent electrical controls design Fully native DWG Open and extendable The only logical choice for electrical controls design Built by electrical engineers, for electrical engineers

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AutoCAD Electrical 2006 Reduce Complex or Repetitive Tasks Reduce Errors Increase Drafting Productivity Communicate and Manage Design Data © 2005 Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2006 - Seminar 3

AutoCAD Electrical 2006 Reduce Complex or Repetitive Tasks Reduce Errors Increase Drafting Productivity Communicate and Manage Design Data © 2005 Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2006 - Seminar 4

Automatically Create PLC I/O Drawings   

Define I/O requirements in a spreadsheet Open the spreadsheet in AutoCAD Electrical Watch the drawings generate automatically

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Slash time needed to create PLC I/O Drawings

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Generate Graphical Terminal Layouts 

Automatically generate graphical terminal strips

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Provide terminal wiring information automatically

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Optional tabular format supported

Instantly generate accurate terminal strip drawings

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Automatically Generate Project Reports     

Bill of Materials From/To Wire Lists Cable Lists Terminal Reports Much More…

Drastically reduce time and errors creating critical reports

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Real Time Coil and Contact Cross-Referencing   

Automatically track relay coils and contacts Changes automatically update all related devices Alerts user when number of contacts is exceeded Relay on one Drawing Contacts on Others

Eliminate cross-referencing errors

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Automatic Wire Numbering and Component Tagging   

Referenced based or sequential numbering Flexible numbering formats Automatically appends duplicates with a suffix

Instant and accurate wire numbers and component tags

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Create Smart Panel Layout Drawings  

Ensures all necessary schematic components make it to the panel Creates link between schematic and panel components

 Changes to one automatically update the other

Easily create complete and accurate panel layout drawings

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Link to Autodesk Inventor Professional  

Drive 3D Routing from 2D Schematics Supports Both Cables and Discrete Wires

Seamless interoperability between 2D and 3D

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Share Drawings and Track Changes   

Share actual DWG files with your customers Compatible with downstream AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT users Tracks changes and reports differences

Seamlessly share drawings with downstream users

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Publish Projects to the Web 

Easily publish electrical projects as html based web pages

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Share and exchange designs with customers and suppliers

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Publishes DWF

Collaborate with customers, suppliers, and extended design teams

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Autodesk Vault    

Autodesk Vault provides easy-to-use work-in-progress data management integrated with the design applications you use today

Manage Work-in-Progress Easy to Use and Administer Organize & Reuse Protect and Secure

Centralize design storage and improve design reuse

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Collaboration and Viewing 

Publish 2D and 3D models to DWF

 DWF publishing built-in  Auto-publishing with Autodesk Vault  Lightweight published data  Secures intellectual property 

Autodesk DWF Viewer

 Free download  Viewing and printing

Easily share designs with the extended manufacturing team

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AutoCAD Electrical Helps You… 

Reduce Complex or Repetitive Tasks

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Reduce Errors

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Increase Drafting Productivity

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Communicate and Manage Design Data

The only logical choice for electrical controls design

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