For what I do, it is very much overkill, and our existing drawings are so 'scatterred' in their standards that I can't really take much advantage of all the cross referencing and reporting tools. I started using Electrical here, because we own it, not for any other useful reason. It is really pretty easy to build up a good set of 'blocks' that include parameters (data items which can change like component names and specs) even without all the fancy tools in Electrical. I would suggest that you get your drawing standards down as much as possible early on into your Autocad usage, and then build your symbol library to fit. If your are using AB gear, there are symbols available on their website, but they may not easily fit into your drawings. Do you use similar parts regularly in your projects? If you wish to use the AutoCAD LT that you have, then you may be best developing your own symbols & title block(s). You can read more about Promis-e Versus AutoCAD electrical here () in a previous thread. How many hours a week are you doing drawings?ĭo you need to produce drawings with coil/contact cross referencing?ĭo you need terminal/termination diagramsĭo you need cable schedules (automatically generated from drawings)?ĭo you need automatic wire numbering? Then the ability to export your wire numbers to other packages (such as printers)? Now, I am not about to recommend/not recommend this product for you, as I don't (fully) know your needs. We found that AutoCAD Electrical to be too expensive, EPLAN to be too hard/complex to learn, and then we found Promis-e (). Sometime ago, my boss trialled/investigated different CAD packages for our schematics/panels.

No one uses normal AutoCAD for electrical schematics? Recently our small company has decided to start using AutoCAD for all of our electrical schematics, as this seems to be the industry standard.

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