Electrical toolset is included with AutoCAD

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Item Numbering: Launches the Item Numbering Setup dialog box. The dialog box contains options for project or drawing wide item numbering, and per-part number or per-component item numbering.

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The Automatic Reports tool allows you to run multiple reports at one time. You can save each report to a file, place each report as a table, or both.  Find

The Report Generator dialog box is not displayed for each report and no user input is required once launched. Format files are required to use Automatic Reports. The format files must define file output, table output, or both since the reports are not displayed on the screen. Use Format File Setup to define file and table output in a format file.  Find

If you frequently run the same group of reports you can save the group as a report grouping. To set up a report grouping, add all your format files as if you are going to run the reports and save the report grouping. The information about the format files is saved in a Report Grouping file with an .rgf extension. The next time you want to run that group of reports, open the .rgf saved previously.

AutoCAD Electrical toolset provides library symbols that comply with the standards:

• IEEE 315/315A
• IEC-60617
• NFPA

The IEEE and IEC library symbols are metric. To scale the symbols for imperial, use the Modify library symbols utility. The NFPA library symbols are in inches.

The JIC standard is no longer updated and was incorporated into the NFPA 79 standards. The NFPA standard states that the library symbols are in accordance with the IEEE 315/315A standard. AutoCAD Electrical toolset continues to provide the JIC and older IEC symbol libraries for legacy support.

The Project Manager portion of the AutoCAD Electrical interface is where you create new projects and work with existing ones. You can re-tag components, sheets, wire numbers, drawings, title blocks, and so on. You can specify what needs to be changed in your file and make those changes easily. Once you are ready to export, you can plot the project and then publish to the web or a preferred file format.

The Circuit Builder tool comes prepopulated with data to build and annotate a sampling of motor control circuits and power feed circuits. Circuits include 3-phase, single-phase, and one-line circuit representations. Each circuit is built dynamically, adjusting the power bus to match the wire bus for the drawing, adding wiring between components, and annotating the elements with suggested values based upon the selected load. Each time a circuit is configured, it is added to a history list of circuits. This list provides for quick reinsertion at a later time.

Three items control this feature:

• The spreadsheet defines the available circuits, circuit types, and defaults for each option within a circuit.
• The template (.dwg file) for a selected circuit defines the wiring and the placement position for the individual components on that wiring.
• The electrical standards database provides suggested values used to annotate components of the circuit and the wire size and type of the power wiring.

Circuit Builder is customizable. You can add new circuit definitions and edit existing ones.

Workflow

1. Circuit Builder opens the spreadsheet and reads in the first sheet named “ACE_CIRCS”.
2. Circuit Builder shows the list of defined circuits in the Circuit Selection dialog box.
3. Select a circuit to insert or configure. The associated line from the ACE_CIRCS sheet provides the base drawing template name, and the name of a circuit code sheet. The circuit code sheet is a separate sheet within the Circuit Builder spreadsheet.
4. The base drawing template for the circuit inserts at your selected location.
5. Circuit Builder finds and reads the attributes on all the special marker blocks on the inserted drawing template.
6. Circuit Builder matches each marker block to a specific section in the circuit codes sheet. This section can be a single spreadsheet row or multiple consecutive rows in the circuit codes sheet. The section identifies one of the following:
   • The action taken at this marker block location in the circuit. For example, calculate a wire type, insert a wire number, or adjust rung spacing.
   • Provides a list of component insertion options that can be inserted at this point in the circuit. For example, presents a selection list containing a fuse, circuit breaker, or disconnect switch symbol.

   Each marker block is processed in sequence, controlled by an ORDER attribute value carried on each marker block

7. A marker block can insert a nested template into the main circuit template. If the nested template carries its own marker blocks, these marker blocks are added to the overall list to process. When all marker blocks have been processed, the circuit is complete.

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AutoCAD Electrical 2022 now supports the SQL catalog database for the Bill of Materials in Autodesk Vault.

When generating the Bill of Materials in Autodesk Vault for an AutoCAD Electrical project, the data from the AutoCAD Electrical drawings including the details in the catalog database are added to the report.

In addition to Microsoft Access database, the support is extended to the Microsoft SQL format of the catalog.

As Circuit Builder dynamically builds the circuit, each component receives a component tag. A child contact must link to a parent component to receive the same component tag as the parent.

The parent and child components are automatically linked by Circuit Builder if they each have the same default tag value. For example, the motor starter coil and auxiliary contacts both have a default value “M”.

There can be more than one parent/child relationship within the overall circuit with the same default tag. The overall circuit includes the main circuit template and any branching or nested circuit templates. For example, a reversing motor starter has two starter coils, forward and reverse. Each parent coil must link to the correct child auxiliary contacts and power contacts but they might all have the same default tag value, “M”. To accomplish the correct parent/child links follow these steps.

1. Open the circuit template drawings that contain the parent and child marker blocks. There can be more than one circuit template drawing involved, for example a main template with power contacts and a nested template with the starter coils and interlocking auxiliary contacts.
2. Find the correct marker block for each component that requires a new default tag link.
3. Edit the MISC1 attribute value adding “_PRETAG={new default tag link}”. For example, add “_PRETAG=MF” for the forward motor coil and contacts, and “_PRETAG=MR” for the reverse motor coil and contacts.
   
   Note: The MISC1 attribute value can contain multiple special text flags which direct Circuit Builder to handle the component or underlying wire in a special way. When you add new values, do not overwrite any other special flag values. Separate each one with a semicolon.
4. Save the circuit template drawings.

   When Circuit Builder inserts the nested circuit containing the child contacts, it matches these predefined tag values with the correct parent coil.

   

Generates a set of PLC I/O drawings from a data file.

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Choose the data file and click Open.

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