Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2016

Whats new

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Readers choose AutoCAD Electrical software as the number 1

ECAD product for the 11th year in a row!

WinnerControl design software

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Industry segments

Engineering
services

Utilities and power

Building products and

fabrication

Industrial

Industrial machinery

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Automotive and
transportation

2016 Product Design Suite | Includes Electrical

Autodesk AutoCAD
Electrical is in
Autodesk Product
Design Suite Ultimate

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Areas of focus
Project
management

Electromechanical
workflow

Idea Station

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Customer
satisfaction

Project managementLocation view

Project
management

Device management
Hierarchy of devices
Accessible metadata
Surf/zoom to device

Installation and Location

Manufacturer metadata
Devices

Pins and connections

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Project managementLocation view

From/to connections
Includes wire lengths from Autodesk Inventor software
From/to connection
Export for review and reporting
information

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Project
management

Electromechanical one design

AutoCAD Electrical & Autodesk Inventor
Common electromechanical project management
Consistent views in both products
Real-time cross-product device synchronization

Electrical

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Inventor

Electromechanical
workflow

Electromechanical design efficiencies

Electromechanical
workflow

Intelligent design state information

Device organization by location
Linked status indicators
Real-time differences awareness

Electrical-only device

Inventor-only device

Electrical- & Inventorlinked device

Linked with differences

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Wire connection sequencing

Intelligent default sequencing
Follows device sequence
All standards
Can be overridden

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Electromechanical
workflow

Customer satisfaction

Linked component filtering

Panel rating defaults added
Parametric component editor
Multicopy circuit

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Customer
satisfaction

Circuit Builder API for linked

line
Save internal/external device
assignments in Terminal
Strip Editor

Customer satisfaction
User wire attribute support

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Customer
satisfaction

Persistent dialog settings

Idea Station Get involved

Idea Station

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Introduced July 2104

Over 100 ideas

generated

Several
incorporated into
release

Many more being

considered

Idea Station

Multiple terminals options

Suppress tag strip
Suppress installation

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Export workflow
Freshen database for export

Idea Station

Annotation of one-line
symbols

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Customers benefit from:

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Upgrades to the latest software releases

More cloud computing capabilities and capacity

Flexible licensing rights

Basic technical support

Desktop Subscription benefits

LOWEST COST OF ENTRY

ACCESS TO THE LATEST TOOLS

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EASY RAMP UP / SCALE DOWN

REDUCED RISK

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