AutoCAD Electrical 2007

Summary
This courseware is designed for new users who require comprehensive training in AutoCAD® Electrical software. This hands-on courseware focuses on how to build intelligent ladder diagrams and panel layouts, and how to leverage this intelligence. The courseware provides an overview of many AutoCAD Electrical utilities, designed to enable students to quickly build and manage electrical-controls drawings.

Hands-on exercises throughout the courseware explore how to create electrical-controls production drawings.

Who Should Attend
Electrical engineers, drafters, designers, and anyone interested in improving drafting efficiency, reducing design errors and automating the reporting process using the powerful tools in AutoCAD Electrical.

Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
■ Describe the AutoCAD Electrical user interface and follow the basic electrical project
design workflow.
■ Use project-related tools to access drawings and copy projects.
■ Insert wires, add wire numbers, manage circuits, and create point-to-point wiring diagrams
and drawings.
■ Edit drawings project-wide with commands that are specific to the electrical design environment.
■ Insert and annotate schematic symbols.
■ Extract information from drawings to create Bill of Material, Wiring, and other reports.
■ Create and annotate panel layout drawings with lists of components that are extracted from
schematic drawings and with other specific panel layout tools, such as the Terminal Strip Editor.
■ Change project and drawing configurations by changing the default settings to match your
specific electrical design requirements.
Create custom schematic and panel symbols to meet your specific needs and customize the icon
menu system to include the new symbols.
■ Add custom catalog numbers and pin lists to the default databases, as well as update title block
attributes automatically with project and drawing data.
■ Use automated processes, such as generating reports and updating drawings from spreadsheets,
to improve design productivity.
■ Integrate Autodesk® Vault into your electrical design environment to add document management
to your design process.
■ Insert parametric PLC I/O and standard full-unit modules in your schematic drawings, as well as
create custom PLC I/O modules.
■ Use advanced tools to add wiring information from schematic drawings to panel footprints and to
manage cables in your projects.

Prerequisites
No previous computer-aided design (CAD) experience is required, but it is recommended that you
have a working knowledge of Microsoft® Windows® 2000 or Microsoft® Windows® XP. Drafting and
design experience is a plus.

Each Student Receives
-A Student Guide and data set on CD
-Autodesk Certificate of Authorized Training