AutoCAD® Electrical has proven to be easy for creating electrical controls system designs. It has libraries of standard components, intelligent connections between drawings, and tools for updating entire projects at once. But what do you do with previous work? How to you get a project designed in regular AutoCAD® to have this functionality? The answer? – Use AutoCAD® Electrical’s Conversion tools.

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Todd Schmoock
Applications Consultant

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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2016
Project Manager Changes:
Interoperability with Inventor:

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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2016
Drawing and project sort order now includes Wire Sequence Order:
New wire number attributes:

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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2016
The Insert Connector dialog box settings are remembered:
New option to filter components if there is already a matching one-line symbol:

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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2016
Multi-insert option to hide tagstrip, installation, location attribute values:
Other Enhancements:
2015 Multiple Insert dialog box:
• Child components linked directly to the parent with the dashed link line are filtered out of the cross-
referencing on the parent component.
• Buttons for rating defaults added to the View / Edit Rating Values dialog box when editing a panel
component. Each button opens the Ratings default file so you can select a value to assign to the attribute.
• The InsertEdit Component dialog box opens when you insert a parametric connector so you can further
annotate the connector.
• The Copy Circuit command defaults to selecting multiple insertion points for creating multiple copies on the
same drawing.
• A new Circuit Builder API is available to link components within a circuit with a dashed link line.
• The Export to Spreadsheet now freshens the database automatically before performing the export.
• A new check box on Terminal Strip Editor lets you save the internal and external device assignments.

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Create/Edit Wire Type:
Change/Convert Wire Type:
Tools that will be used today
Convert Text to Wire Number:
Insert Dot Tee Markers:
Convert Ladder:
Swap/Update Block:
Create a New Project:
Schematic Reports:
It can seem overwhelming, but learn how a few work
they will start to make sense

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The AutoCAD Electrical Schematic Ribbon:
The AutoCAD Electrical Conversion Ribbon:
The AutoCAD Electrical Reports ribbon: Create a New Project:
Ribbons the tools are on

9. Thanks!
Todd Schmoock
Applications Consultant
todd.schmoock@synergis.com
Moving from AutoCAD® to AutoCAD® Electrical