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With AutoCAD, you can create precise, detailed drawings. You can draft, annotate, and automate, and use industry-specific features for architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical design, or whatever other projects you’re working on! But are you ever working on a project in AutoCAD and think, “there has to be an easier way to do this,” or “is […]

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock AutoCAD Electrical has a specific naming convention when creating, and using, schematic symbols to enable some of its automation features to work.  The naming convention allows AutoCAD Electrical to know whether a horizontal or vertical symbol should be used, and what family category it […]

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock Understanding AutoCAD Electrical’s Project Manager can make the difference in how successful you are when working in AutoCAD Electrical.  In standard AutoCAD each drawing is a stand-alone file, but in AutoCAD Electrical they are grouped together in a project.  The project knows how many drawings […]

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock Sometimes you need to combine project drawings created by one user, and add them to a global project.  An example of this is when new drawings are created, or updated, by several users and the drawings need to be added to the master project.  […]

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock AutoCAD Electrical ships with tools specifically designed for the controls industry so if there is an AutoCAD Electrical tool you should use that tool before using an AutoCAD tool.  The biggest reason for this is due to drawing and project updates that are programmed into […]

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock AutoCAD Electrical ships with tools specifically designed for the controls industry so if there is an AutoCAD Electrical tool you should use that tool before using an AutoCAD tool.  The biggest reason for this is due to drawing and project updates that are programmed into […]

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Synergis Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock Since AutoCAD Electrical ships with tools specifically designed for the controls industry it is important you keep your project files updated to ensure they are accurate at all times.  The order you run them is not as important as making sure you run them on […]

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Synergis Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock In AutoCAD Electrical the project and drawing properties use parameters to identify how updates will be applied to the smart objects.  For example, the NFPA project installed with AutoCAD Electrical has the components tag format set to %F%N.  %F equals family code, and %N equals […]

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock In AutoCAD Electrical it is important to understand the naming convention of schematic symbols so they are recognized by the software when they are inserted into a project’s drawing.  By following the naming convention AutoCAD Electrical will know what family the symbol belongs to, and […]

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Synergis’ Application Consultant, Todd Schmoock In AutoCAD Electrical you create a variety of circuits that are company specific and you want to reuse them in other designs to save time.  AutoCAD Electrical gives you a menu option that allows you to store your custom circuits.  It’s called the User […]