AutoCAD Electrical 2024: A Tutorial Series

Create a new AutoCAD Electrical project, add a description, set the project location and copy settings, then create a new drawing with a template and add drawing details.

Learn to manage drawings in a project by adding, removing, replacing, and moving drawings, organizing them into subfolders, and configure the display to show file name, drawing number, and description.

Copy an existing AutoCAD Electrical project, add drawings, review the exception list, and use settings compare to match drawing properties with the copied project.

Surf a component and extract component and connection details using the Location View tab in the Project Manager, then export them as separate files from the Chasm project.

Learn to insert wires, trim them, and delete a wire number in a drawing using the wire tool, with project setup steps in the Kassam project.

Create a new wire type in AutoCAD Electrical 2024 and apply it to an existing wire using the create edit wire type tool and the change convert wire type tool.

Learn to insert and fix wire numbers, add wire color gauge labels, and show wires with pointers to wire numbers in AutoCAD Electrical 2024.

Trace a wire sequence for a wire network in AutoCAD Electrical 2024 using the show wire sequence tool, edit the sequence, verify with show wire sequence, and save the drawing.

Insert a single phase ladder, trim a ladder rung, and add wires to the ladder in a new AutoCAD Electrical 2024 drawing.

Insert a three phase ladder and a multiple wire bus using the insert ladder and multiple bus tools, with proper spacing and start position.

Learn how to stretch a ladder, revise ladder reference numbers, and add rungs in AutoCAD Electrical 2024 using the stretch, revised ladder, and add rung tools.

Learn to set the format reference numbering style of a ladder and insert x-y grid labels in AutoCAD Electrical 2024, including renumbering ladder line reference numbers across multiple drawings.

Learn to edit a component, add a wire to a ladder, and trim a rung in AutoCAD Electrical 2024. Use the schematic tab and wire tools to update drawings.

Swap a component in the schematic with the swap update block tool, retain scale and auto retag, then switch NFPA to JIC 125 symbol libraries and update the icon menu.

Swap a component from the NFPA library with a JIC library component and update its description, then create a project specific catalog database to keep changes separate.

Learn how to copy, move, and delete ladder components, hide their attributes, and use scoot and align tools to organize a ladder in AutoCAD Electrical 2024.

Audit a drawing with the drawing audit and electrical audit tools, review and rectify catalog errors, then surf a component to inspect and update its catalog data.

Insert a ladder into the drawing, copy catalog data from a master component to targets, and add location data to components in AutoCAD Electrical 2024.

Update the drawings with the update retag tool, performing project-wide retagging, wire numbering, ladder resequencing, and sheet number adjustments for the selected drawings.

Create a point to point wiring diagram by inserting connectors, configuring pin spacing and counts, and wiring between PJ and J connectors with multiple wire bus tools.

Learn to create a point-to-point wiring diagram in AutoCAD Electrical 2024 by inserting connectors and a splice, wiring with a multiple bus, and tagging C1, C2, and SP2.

Learn to insert a three phase ladder into a drawing, insert a saved circuit, copy that circuit, and save the circuit to an icon menu in AutoCAD Electrical 2024.

Insert a saved circuit into a drawing and save it as a w block circuit, then insert the saved w blocked circuit into another drawing to reuse designs.

Extract the schematic components list from the active project and insert footprints from this schematic list, then insert nameplates and save the drawing.

Edit footprints with the edit footprints panel to update item numbers and apply related drawings updates, then use the balloon tool to add balloons with item numbers to each footprint.

Insert footprints manually in AutoCAD electrical 2024 and make X data visible for footprints by using the manual tool, catalog data, and data visibility options.

Learn to insert footprints from the user defined list and add a new footprint path to the panel footprint library in AutoCAD Electrical 2024, updating project properties.

Learn to generate a schematic bill of material report, add a user attribute field, and save a panel component report to an Excel file.

Learn to generate panel nameplate reports and insert them into drawings, and to generate and save panel component reports in ascii format using AutoCAD Electrical 2024.

Create and save format files for schematic and panel component reports, customize fields such as file name, enable Excel output, and generate a cumulative report with the Automatic Reports tool.

Insert a parametric plc module into a ladder and specify io points, add spacers and breaks, and continue the remaining module into a second ladder with decimal addressing.

Create a new PLC module using the PLC database file editor and insert it into a ladder. Set the beginning address for the module using Automationdirect DL 205 discrete input.

Create plc i o wiring diagrams from spreadsheet data using the plc i o utility and spreadsheet to plc utility, and save settings as wdi files in the active project.