AutoCAD Electrical Reviews

Made for Electrical Engineers

Comments: I have managed to deliver high quality designs for my customers in short periods of time. Once the system is configured it's easy to use. Every detail of the design can be clearly shown on the schematics, from terminals to labels, and this reduce built time by 50% because of the level of detailing AutoCad Electrical allows to show.

Pros:

All in one software, you can do your schematics, Bill of materials, General arrangement drawings, all these connected. You change something in the schematic it auto update the Bill of Materials. You can can also lonk catalogues from suppliers.

Cons:

Licencing is a bit price compared to other software.

Professional's Choice for Automation Documentation

Comments: Support for AutoCAD Electrical has always been excellent from both Autodesk and the local resellers. Training is usually free and ranges in complexity. The software is focused to provide solutions to real-world industrial control systems and IC/PCB documentation.

Pros:

The interface is intuitive and is highly customizable. Includes most symbols in well defined blocks with attributes in the JIS, NEMA, and IEC standards. The new LISP editor allows the user to write and debug scripts without reloading the script each time. Automatic wire tagging and re-tagging takes the grind out of renumbering wires when a component is added. Coil and contact association is automatically created next to the rung to improve readability. Backwards compatible with previous versions of AutoCAD. Import/Export from PDF or to other software is carried out with a good degree of fidelity. Interoperability of Autodesk Inventor allows seamless ECAD/MCAD integration for automated machine design.

Cons:

Does not simulate industrial control panels (i.e. what happens when a fuse blows or a field input device changes states). This functionality is available in lower-priced software. Some functions used in basic AutoCAD do not work in AutoCAD Electrical. Often user or vendor defined blocks do not behave correctly with wire routing (point to point) connections. For example, a block for a VFD or timer relay often requires a significant amount of modification to fix wiring/connection issues. Pricing for this product has steadily increased over the years, without equivalent improvements to the software. Error reporting rarely results in a solution from Autodesk.

Easy to design electrical schematics with more accuracy

Comments: Good Electrical schematics design tool with simplified user interface. Perfect for designing electrical circuit.

Pros:

User interface is user friendly,easy to learn and electrical circuit schematics are done perfectly. DWF files can be generated instantly from AutoCad Electrical

Cons:

Not helpful in 3D environment usage, there is a limitations in routing of wires.

AutoCAD is a valuable resource for engineers and an amazing tool for students!

Comments: AutoCAD Electrical is actually "inside" the AutoCAD software "bundle", which is available with a special free license if you are a student. We could say that this is one of the several different resources offered by the full product, so there is plenty of tools to help you out once you acquire it! With a new installment for the year of 2020, I noticed updated features and several other tools and functions. This is an excellent tool for people in the electrical field, but also for basically any engineer wanting a reliable and sophisticated software to help with your final results... Drawing circuits, pieces, objects, blueprints, architectural plants is much better with AutoCAD and the AutoCAD Electrical certainly will make you satisfied with the outcome of projects. Support is also responsive and reliable. Overall, I am very happy with my experience utilizing this product.

Pros:

This is one of the many functions inside AutoCAD, which is a pertinent program for basically any engineer, no matter which field we are discussing. I am planning to use this tool for future research projects related to many different fields and I realized that AutoCAD Electrical is one of the many resources that I have, with great chances to be used along with other complementary functions inside AutoCAD. The fact that Autodesk offers a special license for students of one year (with the possibility of renewal) is a great incentive to try out the product as much as possible and I found it extremely positive!

Cons:

You will certainly notice the intimidating interface at first glance. This program will demand proper training if you are willing to implement an effective use of such tool in your business. It is also worth mentioning that the price of this product is somewhat expensive, so it might be hard to implement such tool under limited budget conditions. A good computer to run this program is also recommended.

Best CAD software for Electrical engineers

Comments: For my carrier, it's an essential part to design electrical design with a more effective and reliable design. I designed an electrical lighting system to replace the existing system in many buildings of Colombo Dockyard. For this type of task, it is very easy to use this software otherwise I have wast many hours design a proper design.

Pros:

This software has a very user-friendly interface and there are many tools to design a very effective and creative design. Also because of these tools, it is very easy to design a very complex design very easily and without wasting time.

Cons:

Sometimes for very complex design software get slowdown and for new users it difficult to understand about some tools at the beginning.

Electrical design software

Pros:

All electrical component symbols can be imported and used in autoCAD electrical instead of drawing them manually. it can be used to design both transmission lines and building designs.

Cons:

It does not have function to be automated. some functions in mathlab should be added to it.

AutoCAD electrical is the best tool for electrical designings

Pros:

AutoCad Electrical is meant for designing electrical controls and systems. It is reliable, accurate and user friendly.

Cons:

AutoCad Electrical can be affordable for companies, but for a single-user it becomes highly priced.

Autocad experience

Comments: Perfect tool in daily life to show your engineering skills

Pros:

Autocad is a usefull tool since years all Engineer in the world used it

Cons:

Black screen is making my eyes tired, shiny monitorring is preferable

Best software for designing electrical installations

Comments: In my business, I use AutoCad electrical for designing installations in the buildings. I use it most of the times to design electrical installations in industrial systems. The tools are very efficient and useful. A less time is required to practice the tools. I recommend this software to those who are still using manual methods in the industry.

Pros:

Graphical user interface Tools Ease of use

Cons:

Nothing. This the best software for electrical planning

Smooth and easy to use

Comments: AutoCAD is pretty handy software for all the Electrical drawings work and It's pretty fast to access.

Pros:

I like the functionality of accessing commands by typing the single letter on keyboard.

Cons:

AutoCAD crashes sometimes and we loose all the work which is not saved.

Amazing features, worth the price of purchasing

Pros:

The app is well designed to be built for user-friendly. I was not expecting that

Cons:

The price was expensive for a startup and low costs business personnel's

Save your time with this AutoCAD software

Pros:

Every day i am using this software for taking off quantity for the estimation and its user friendly. All the required electrical detail design along with schematic diagram done through this software

Cons:

Its required well configured PC for smooth running. Hope this will solve in near future.

Excellent software for electrical and electronics designs.

Comments: I really like using Autocad electrical for my designs because the design tools are well incorporated in this software.

Pros:

What I like most in Autocad electrical is the implementation of the programmable logic controller (PLC)., because most of the work we do and I do in the industry I mostly make us of PLCs for my designs, since it's manufacturing and it involves automation.

Cons:

I don't really feel there's something bad or not right with Autocad electrical since I have being using this software.

professional electrical design schqumatics

Comments: Very powerful software for electrical design and excellent tools for generating manufacturing documentation.

Pros:

The wide range of symbols libraries, the automatic wire numberings, components tagging and error checking. Easy to use if autocad software has been used previously

Cons:

it share a similar interface with other autocad softwares, and it would be great if they improve the interface simplifying the menu structure and making tools bars.

Very Useful software

Comments: Overall this software has been extremely helpful and allowed me to produce accurate drawing that have been used within my everyday work.

Pros:

I really liked the CAD side of this software, I found it very good for producing accurate 2D models and drawings for the tasks I was assigned for my job.

Cons:

At first getting used to this software was difficult, I had to research and complete a couple of tutorials before I could get the most out of this software.

Weekly User Review

Pros:

As an electrical Engineer I recommand to use this famous software for your electrical and pneumatic diagrams ! It makes work easy with those accurate and fast tools !

Cons:

I don't like toggling between Model and Paper ! It should be locked by choice !

Great software for electrical schematics

Pros:

Includes a variety of features (such as PLC tools) and a library with symbols used in electrical planning, which is a huge time saver. Provides the ability to create both 2D and 3D designs.

Cons:

Sometimes at the startup, the software becomes slow and unresponding

Great if you will use it daily

Comments: I found myself a little overwhelmed at first with the menus. I prefer a cleaner, more intuitive interface but you will get used to it. If you won't use it often you won't be able to memorize the menus and won't be very productive with this program.

Pros:

You can make electrical diagrams fast and clean. Most of the IEC symbols are already in the libraries so you can start right away. If you make use of templates and save synchronize configurations in all your machines all of your diagrams will have the same format and design style. Tags can be helpful to organize the project but takes a lot of discipline to implement correctly.

Cons:

Navigating the menus is not easy at first. To access many of the options/features you have to navigate several menus and is hard to remember the path to some useful but not very recurrent tools.

Brilliant software for electrical engineers.

Pros:

A well organized software indeed for electrical engineers to design Single line diagrams. It's a complete package and needs a little bit of training.

Cons:

Not very user-friendly for a new user, it needs a lot of practice to have a complete grasp on this software. Specifically while drawing the single line diagrams

Best tool for Electrical Engineers

Comments: AutoCAD Electrical have helped me a lot with electrically design and schematics. I highly recommend this app for everyone that is in technological engineering.

Pros:

It is the best for electrical design and schematic.

Cons:

This software has a wide range of tools that we can use for building schematics and electrical design

It's all about electrical system designing

Comments: I recommend AutoCAD Electrical kit to every electrical engineer in designing side.

Pros:

The software is very useful in schematic diagram designing of a electrical system.It has a rich library with thousands of components.

Cons:

It is expensive.There are some issues with inter connecting inventor with this,specially in importing designs.

Great features and easy to use. Very complete software

Comments: It has been a great tool for our designs. It delivers a good efficiency when developing electrical projects.

Pros:

As most Autodesk softwares, AutoCAD Electrical has lots of great features that allowed us to develop our projects with high quality. It was easy to use as it comes from the AutoCAD family, and we were already using it.

Cons:

The amount of time that the software takes to load is excessive. Even with a high end computer, it takes several minutes. The software is not very friendly with 3D designs and does not snap lines.

AutoCAD Electrical

Pros:

AutoCAD Electrical is very useful helpful software tools . I highly recommended to use.

Cons:

AutoCAD Electrical is all perfect and other things are supportive.

AutoCAD electrical review

Comments: Is a good software besides the lack of information

Pros:

The lot of components for make your drawings and is so easy to make electrical panels

Cons:

The lack of information for the software

good

Comments: good

Pros:

it is good to use. easy to use. very useful

Cons:

no bad no hard to use it is very useful