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(OP)
I am looking for a good Electrical Design software. Can anyone of you help me in this regard?

RE: Electrical Design

What are you trying to design?

RE: Electrical Design

(OP)
hi dpc,
Thanks for your reply, I am looking for designing software for Electrical panels, Motor control centres, Single line diagram, Power factor improvement plants and other Electrical designing used in Electrical industry in Canada.

RE: Electrical Design

For years I have been using 2D AutoCad for panel layouts, single lines, schematics, motor elementaries, P&ID's, instrument loop sheets, conduit/cable tray etc. Most electrical component manufactures offer AutoCad product drawings that can be imported directly into your drawings.

David Baird

Sr Controls Designer
EET degree.
Journeyman Electrician.

RE: Electrical Design

I too use AutoCad.  I use lite 2D do about everything with it.

Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com

RE: Electrical Design

Autocad is just a drawing software.

If you talk specifically about design softwares which have modules for panel drawings, SLDs, etc and give you help in design and calculations, then you need to look at following:

ETAP
EDSA
SKM Power Tools
PSS/e or now PSS/SINCAL
NEPLAN
DIGISILENT

These are some of the most widely used software around the globe.

Olic

RE: Electrical Design

nabeelkhan

over here in Europe EPLAN is very popular and works well but it is also expensive - there are many others electric CADs that maybe are used only in a given nation - depends on where you live

regards

RE: Electrical Design

I use AutoCAD LT as well for schematics.

I have heard many good things about AutoCAD Electrical, when applied to electrical control panels.  I just haven't gotten to the point where the price justifies the means yet.

Some of my buddies like the www.SKM.com software for Power designs, and you can look into www.cyme.com also.

RE: Electrical Design

If you are not a draughtsperson and want a quick solution, you may like to look at Microsoft Visio which does a pretty good job and is easier to set up and learn than autocad. It can also export to autocad format.

Best regards,

Mark Empson
http://www.lmphotonics.com

RE: Electrical Design

AutoCad Electrical and PromiseE are two good products. I think that PromiseE is a better product.

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