autocad electrical basic symbols library

It also contains a huge library out of the box of electrical panel footprint symbols, for creating physical panel layouts. All of these libraries are fully customizable. you can add to them, subtract from them and even modify the existing symbols through the Symbol Builder tool in the program. These symbols are all accessible through an Icon Menu that has multiple screens and nested menus. This is also manageable through the Icon Menu Wizard tool. Lots of flexibility there, but not the most user friendly interface, in my humble opinion. Of course, it may just be that this is not the way I am used to doing things, coming from so many years of using plain AutoCAD ® for all of our schematics. It may even go all the way back to having all of my symbols right in front of me on one of those massive tablets we used to use back in the day.Īnyone remember these? They could be configured to include custom commands or symbols pretty much anywhere on the tablet, but primarily in the empty top section. You could edit the menu file, and there was a drawing of this tablet screen where you could add or delete or move things around. Plot it off, tape it down and off you went.

These days my preferred method for inserting blocks is the tool palette. if you have not looked into all that tool palettes can do for you, I highly recommend you do. Take a look on the Autodesk ® University website, there are several online classes from past AU’s that are available for download. In Autocad we have several palettes that contain our symbol libraries for both electrical and flow diagram schematics.Ī little over a year a go, we made the decision to switch our electrical schematics to AutoCAD ® Electrical.

This was mainly due to the fact that it was added to our Product Design Suite.

Autocad electrical basic symbols library