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Autodesk® AutoCAD® Electrical 2016
What’s new
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Readers choose AutoCAD Electrical software as the number 1
ECAD product for the 11th year in a row!
Winner—Control design software
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Building products and
fabrication
Automotive and
transportation
Industrial
Industrial machinery
Utilities and power
Engineering
services
Industry segments
2016 Product Design Suite | Includes Electrical
Autodesk® AutoCAD®
Electrical is in
Autodesk® Product
Design Suite Ultimate
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AutoCAD Electrical 2016
Areas of focus
Project
management
Electromechanical
workflow
Customer
satisfaction
Idea Station
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Device management Hierarchy of devices
Accessible metadata
Surf/zoom to device
Project management—Location view
Installation and Location
Devices
Manufacturer metadata
Pins and connections
Project
management
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From/to connections Includes wire lengths from Autodesk® Inventor® software
Export for review and reporting
Project management—Location view
From/to connection
information
Project
management
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AutoCAD Electrical & Autodesk Inventor
Common electromechanical project management
Consistent views in both products
Real-time cross-product device synchronization
Electromechanical “one design”
Electrical Inventor
Electromechanical
workflow
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Intelligent design state information Device organization by location
Linked status indicators
Real-time differences awareness
Electromechanical design efficiencies
Electrical-only device
Inventor-only device
Electrical- & Inventor-
linked device
Linked with differences
Electromechanical
workflow
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Intelligent default sequencing Follows device sequence
All standards
Can be overridden
Wire connection sequencing
Electromechanical
workflow
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Customer satisfaction
Circuit Builder API for linked
line
Save internal/external device
assignments in Terminal
Strip Editor
Linked component filtering
Panel rating defaults added
Parametric component editor
Multicopy circuit
Customer
satisfaction
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Customer satisfaction
Persistent dialog settings User wire attribute support
Customer
satisfaction
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Idea Station – Get involved
Introduced July 2104
Over 100 ideas
generated
Several
incorporated into
release
Many more being
considered
Idea Station
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Multiple terminals options
Suppress tag strip
Suppress installation
Export workflow
Freshen database for export
Idea Station
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Annotation of one-line
symbols
Idea Station
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