![]() In contrast Skycad basically makes good on Autocad Electrical promises. So in truth ACE is barely a step up from taking almost any CAD and just using electrical symbols, and you pay a lot for it. Most of the Skycad examples are just showing how they fixed ACE. So that brings me back to my point that importing and wire numbering is mostly broken. ![]() I mean you draw an inout card and slap a bunch of symbols for push buttons or sensors on it and renumber/relabel everything. Now the truth is also that most panel shops rarely make NEW drawings. Wire numbers must be the Autocad way or everything breaks and has to be manually fixed.Ī third issue…could we please land wires ON the terminals not tied to some bizarre top/bottom edge and straighten up lines correctly (like Visio)? Second when it comas to wire numbers is another gotcha. I mean if you so much as select a wire and without even thinking about it hit the delete key, you just corrupted the drawing!! It is that fragile and that troublesome to work with. If I use ANY standard editing tool except moving around, it breaks the system. If I import a drawing without the database, it breaks the system. This is identical to how most other electrical CAD systems wirk but there is a catch. When you use the macro tools it updates the database. Autocad Electrical takes basic Autocad and runs a ton of macros that manipulate a hidden object which is the database. Once you get over that it’s a great system for technical drawings. But to be honest Skycad blows it out of the water Here is why.Īutocad itself seems “quirky” by todays standards but that’s because it predates virtually all GUIs in use today. In the past I’ve tried the rest and ended up at Autocad Electrical. I do my schematics very manually, and I'm good with that. ![]() It's definitely the front-runner, and as a bonus it's free, though I will send them money if I choose it.ĭoes anyone else have a suggestion of where I should look? I don't need or want a lot of the extras like equipotential markings and that kind of thing. I need to be able to create symbols for the safety relays, PLCs, etc. I definitely need to be able to create and edit symbols. It would be a bonus if the software is multi-platform and can run natively on Linux as well as Windows. It would be a bonus if the same software can do pneumatic and hydraulic (and single-line) drawings. I don't need to be able to do the panel layout - I do that in my head. I would like to be able to draw straightforward schematics. I don't mind spending money ONCE to get the software. If I could pay $500 to have DesignSpark Electrical work properly then I would, but the upgrade path from the current brain-damaged version is SolidWorks Electrical which is heathenishly expensive. Not too long ago it was bought by Dassault - the SolidWorks people - and now you can't create drawings that have more than 3 pages of schematics in them, which sucks. I only make maybe 3 or 4 panels per YEAR on average, so spending a thousand dollars per month on a software subscription doesn't appeal to me. I need to draw the schematics to get the safeties done. ![]() I design equipment for work, and I build the panels. ![]()
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