ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS
ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS
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How it is possible to make the electrical drawing for power circuit & control circuit in minimum time with the help of Autocad?
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RE: ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS
However drawing with AUTOCAD is very productive if you have already prepared most of the possible configurations of protective devices or control relays and the relevant cabling that you may have at outgoing/incoming circuits of a switchboard (panel/MCC etc). Having done and applied this in at least one project makes drawing a simple copy-paste task when you draw for the next project and you merely have to correct the ratings with the ddedit command.
RE: ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS
RE: ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS
I have also drawn symbols and made each a block with attributes attached. Ie, upon inserting a symbol into a drawing the progam requests the symbol identification and connection numbers and inserts the details accordingly. Each symbol has been applied to a button using the button customise tool in Autocad. In this way I have created three toolbars of electrical symbols which run down the right hand side of my screen. One of the buttons is a flyout in which I keep my least used symbols. If space on your drawing screen is at a premium then flyout buttons may be used for toolbars.
I also use a similar arrangement for inserting equipment into control panel layouts. Most of our standard equipment ie contactors, overloads, pushbuttons, lights etc are predrawn into blocks with attributes attached. Again toolbars/buttons have been created but in this case more flyouts as too many buttons would appear on screen. Hope this is of some help.
RE: ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS
We are a small company and almost all of my control panels are custom designed. We needed to integrate our BOM's into the schematics also.
We bit the big one and got AB's RSWire. Now editing is a piece of cake and I can even move things around just to get it better organizied.
RE: ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS