It's literally just a bunch of custom lisp routines and customization lazily spackled on top of vanilla AutoCAD, and last I checked it was still using Microsoft Access (gag me) as it's underlying database. It's essentially unchanged from when it was a third party add-on called Promise-E in the late 90s and early 2000s. Just as many steps as if you're just drawing in vanilla.ĪutoCAD Electrical is desperately behind the times. There are still many steps you need to remember to do every time you add or change a component. There are still a million ways you can make a mistake and a million things you can forget. The whole point of software like this is to help mitigate mistakes, and ACADe doesn't really do that.

You have to remember to regenerate your terminal strip and bill of material every time you make a change. You have to remember to run your cross reference checks. Even when it does, that and all the other features are still a very 'manual' operation. Plus, half the time the cross-referencing feature doesn't even work, so there's hours gone troubleshooting that.

I toyed with the idea of using AutoCad Electrical but every time I try, I spend more time fighting the software to get it to do what I want than I would have spent just drawing it. Please click 'report' on spam Related sub-reddits: (*) At mods' discretion, certain self-promotion submissions from people who contribute to this sub in other ways may be allowed and tagged with the 'Self-promo' flair No shit posts (memes - pictures with superimposed text - are OK).No spam no self-promotion (*) Employment ads (offer or wanted) go to the weekly thread.If asking a question, ask the actual question, fully yet concisely, right in the title.Be civil: do not insult no all-caps, no excessive '!' and '?', please.Job announcements (oustide the monthly job thread).Single Board computers: r/Raspberry_pi, r/Arduino, r/linux_devices, r/linuxboards.Hardware design that does not include a PLC for electronic circuits: /r/AskElectronics.PLC internship, employment and education questions.Homework help but make it clear it's homework.

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