Hi friends welcome to AutoCAD electrical You guys must be many of you must be from engineering backgrounds and few may not be and you may be quite aware of normal AutoCAD or you can get AutoCAD LT in which we use commands like line polyline circular move or rotate mirror all these things. So, in an AutoCAD electrical if you ask us this command relevant yes, sometimes you may record to use these commands in AutoCAD electrical as well but it is Not necessary you should know all these things commands within normal AutoCAD. But the basic knowledge of AutoCAD will help you to learn an AutoCAD electrical in a much faster way. In normal AutoCAD, you will see these tests file Edit, View insert format tools, broad dimension modify all this you can find. What do you see here, the project components wires panel layout, these are new, this is part of our electrical This is part of AutoCAD electrical.

So, we are going to learn about these tabs like projects, components wires, panel layout. See if I click project, here comes a panel board to three panel boards. Here you can see Manage copy everything under project tools. Same way here other tools. Here you can see surfer. This is the navigation tab to move forward and reverse from one drawing to another.

The same thing you can see here also this is to access bar new, open Save, Undo redo print, these are the commands which we record frequently. So these are put here reset to cactus bar okay. And coming back to schematic Here you will find c insert components here. Many things are related to components. And here again the editing components. This is wires and editing wires and of course, there are a few other tools as well as symbol builder icon menu wizard drying properties and all three.

If you click the bottom portion of this, it will clearly tell you what this tab stand for. This icon stands for, you can read this and in the bottom, see this thing up wire right bottom you can see a wire that is the command, which you can give through command line, the bottom of the AutoCAD screen, he wire instead of picking From here, you can directly type a wire in the command toolbar here here in the command toolbar, you can directly type and coming back to this NC D wire number. That is the command you can apply on the command line instead of picking from here. And here, there are many options if you click this, you can see three different options here. Same way if you click here you can see here again see these are some options. and here also you can see here right in the bottom one you can see here, here, there are many options.

Not in all, in some cases you may or may not get that here you will get only delete camera nothing is but if you see this arrow here, just click that. There are many options. Okay. and here if you click this insert component here, here you can see few commands, insert pneumatic components, hydraulic components, and many many functions you can find here to add once you click outside that that goes off. So if you want to keep that on it just this is a pin pin. Normally we used to pin papers on remotes and this is a pin this click this, so it will remain like this only.

Now it won't go back to want to unwind, edit, click, that's gone. So, you can utilize this pin. If you are using some commands from here. You can just use this pin here, just the pin and it from here, this is one way okay. So this is basically all this comes under schematic tab, schematic tab and if you go to panel again, here You can see sub menus and the event instead just like a schematic you can see menu options inside this. Here also you can use this pin pin here that will remain there.

If you want to use something from here you can choose seven and when again see if you want to keep it here, peanut turn one and pin a.so and the next is a report. This will create the report report what you made in a project whether it is a panel that is layout drawings, whether it is a schematic schematic is nothing but the wiring diagram and the panel is the physical panel and replacing the components which we use In this schematics, that is palette, reports view CSV or all data that can be exported to many options including Excel. And even you can put these reports in your D wg as well. And this one import export data that is very useful while using PLC or your diagrams. And sometimes you may recall to export the data inside a drawing to an Excel sheet. And once you get it those data in Excel even you can import those data back into drawing.

So in that way, this is useful that's all you forgot about the rest. Okay, we don't have nothing to do much these steps. So home by clicking home you will go to the normal AutoCAD Here you can set the layer you can set the table You can set the text everything everything you will find here and product again this is for both the schematic and panel there are two sections on the schematic another is panel okay. So here you will find some common commands which is applicable both to schematic and panel schematic wiring diagram panel again, the physically we can mount the components inside a panel. So, that is panel tab stands for and reports again. Okay, so now coming back here so how do we start a project, AutoCAD electrical project it's very simple.

Okay, so, first of all, what we should do is go to project manager, click manager See the left side project manager comes this is the Project Manager Palette tab. So, we have we are going to play in this field This is very important, very useful Okay, this comes from I will close this this comes from clicking this manager other ways you can type e br o j ECD AutoCAD electrical project, AutoCAD electrical productivity stands for AutoCAD electrical. Just enter this here. Fine. So, we have a blank sheet now. We have nothing I want to start a fresh project maybe in this session You may find some difficulties because you are not quite aware of many things with them going to explain you now.

But once we once we go through the sessions individually in the common sessions that will make you easy to understand this project manager tab. So anyway let us go through some basics I'm going to make a new project. This is new project. Okay, this is open for if you already have a project, you can open from here, but I don't have that right now I have but let us assume we don't have this is your new project. And this is new drawing, refresh and project wire utilities and drawing listed display display in how to We want to display the drawing inside this project manager and plot publish and all. So let us start with a new project.

I don't have open existing projects that so therefore I am going to try straight away to the new project new project so here we have to give a name to a new project. I'm doing AutoCAD e electrical training. My typing spelling is training tra ninja training module Product Manager. Okay. This is my new project. And now it is asking for location.

Where do you want to store this create this project you can choose your own Drive whichever drive you want to use. So, I'm going to be drawings. Okay. So in my day drive and the drive directory, I will create a new project. This is nothing create a folder with the project name. Okay, it's fine.

And this one copy settings from project file. If you already have completed if you completed a project in the past and if you want to copy the settings from the that particular project, you can use this browse, go there and copy that file from there. So you can copy settings from there, but I'm not going to do that now. Descriptions here. You will find so many lines line one, line two, line three. So I'm not going deep into this because it is useless.

If you don't know what this stands for. If I tell you put some descriptions like a AutoCAD electrical tutorial project manager and in this way you can type your descriptions about your project which will come in your reports to, okay, I'm just clicking this so don't get confused in this. Okay. Now I'm going to properties okay properties this plays an important role in your project settings. Because what you're going to set here is going to be the default project setting it is the setting which is going to affect our whole project. So, we should be very careful doing the settings.

Let us see one by one here schematic libraries you know you knew about AutoCAD there must be many directories, many folders with a different standards, IEC JC, all these standards, everything will be there. So you have the option to select which one should be your first preference. In fact, if you see this library, you can see the ICD two that is option number two One. So what attacker do is when you try to insert a component or anything into your attacker drawing the database first goes and try to find it in this particular folder. If you know if that don't find anything there, then moves to next to one, then they then four in this way it moves. So, in fact, you can move this up and down if I want to place this day sitting the top see I'm moving that move up, work.

In this way I can move my settings and if you Don't want something here, you can remove it. If you don't find something here, of course, you can add you can add those paths here at, see this option comes, then browse, go to the folder where your library files are. Normally this will be in this path only see user public documents. And in fact, you can keep make your own library and set it here. But initially, you may not be able to do that once you become a master of this art. You can, of course, do a lot of settings here.

So my intention is that this is a part of that goes and reads. So if you don't find some library here, don't worry at Browse, browse to the library select it, that's all fine. Now, the second option schematic icon icon menu here again see it is IEC manual.da to that effect okay. So, here it is right now this is here I want to add something I will browse See I straightaway gone to this particular folder that is the seek user 2014 at aka user data cache II and us electrical user support user support in this you will find this So, from here you can choose any file as where you are now have you seen JC, if you are using IEC you should select this and the difference you will note later there are many c IEC 606 or seven there are slight difference that you will learn by experience okay.

So, now if you see here now it is changed to JC menu and panel footprint libraries. This we will touch when we come to panel layout drawings. Now we are going to touch the schematics, wiring diagram, how to make schematic there we are concerned only about these two libraries, schematic libraries and icon manufacturers. So both of these are set now. Fine, last crossed out keep as default. Now moving back to components.

Again, if I try to explain to you what these these placenta e F stands for percentage again stands for you may not follow you may not get it right now, because you have not seen what is a component you have not seen what is tagging? Because that is without knowing that if I explain all these things, it's useless. So, let it be like this only the default and seek attention that it be like this only. So you have anything like this by default, when I'm setting taking the default one, the again the wire numbers, how do what should be the format of wire numbers. These are all options related to wire numbers. One is component, wire numbers now cross referencing.

Again I'm not going to change this. Let it be like this. Okay. We will cover components wire numbers here. Way to think in detail then we will come back to this particular format we will tell the format different format different styles then you will be quite clear styles here Let it be like this. Here you can see many things wiring style when a wire crosses another How do we go it should be loop like this whether there should be a gap like this yeah it should be solid all these options are there So, right now I'm keeping loop and wire trees when a wire gets connected to another wire, this unit this comes dot comes automatically do you want like that the or do you want nothing you want at the angles commission like this you can select this angle too.

You can select like this, but by the way MTB does dot again, this is drawing for match to what type of format you are going to use vertically This is lattice basically maybe lattice you are not aware of lattice now, but for whatever does the XY grid the title blocks you you want the x y in this fashion preference wire number this fashion Exxon's only in this fashion there won't be any voice shown in this case this is x y great weight here the scale what type of draw you are going to use, are you going to use Imperial or metric if it is in India's you have to you know many we in Europe and all metric they follow it resize everyone says but any if you see I use it there you will find different standards of purpose. So, right now I have two scenes because I have to send Daisy by the syringe selected.

So reference numbers, let me put, I'm not quite sure whether these settings will work on my title block, but still I'm just explaining the steps that's all. Okay, so, again what I'm trying to tell you these settings whatever you are going to do here is the settings for your whole project. You can add projects, add drawings, remove drawings, you can do whatever you want, but these settings will apply to the drawings interactive vein while you add a new drawing to this particular project here. It will ask you do you want the default the project Valley to apply to this project this drawing that option will come. So be careful while setting these values here that will help you really Okay, now I'm setting you okay. So I have created a new project here.

And I have done the setting to now I don't have any drawing here, you see here all these bullets all there's a plus sign if I click this, see there are many folder subfolders trying but in this case see like I don't have anything to click because there is no drawing, no drawing at all in this case. So let us create a new drawing. There are two ways of adding a drawing into this project. Once you feel have already done a drawing and you want to make that particular drawing into part of this, simply go and open that dry like a I will show you I'm going to open destroy. I have made a few circles like this, this is my open right now. Now I want to add this particular drawing into my project.

So what I will do is place your cursor on the project, right click, see here the option add active drawing, you can add active drawing into your project. See now, do you want to apply the project to default values to the drawing settings, the project settings which we had just finished, do you want to apply those settings to this drawing? Say yes. Now you can see here, here this person is here and you can see the drawing is part of the Now so in this way, you can add a drawing to this project. This is one way of adding project and maybe you don't have open project open drawing and you want to add a new drawing from scratch. So, what you will do go to new dry drawing file name and putting w e or anything.

So normally people follow two steps of fine lines for schematic diagrams, some people follow w e, some people follow E, some people simply put w So, anyhow, I'm going to put ec 002 as the my file name and it is asked, asking me to select a template. So, I have To go to my template directory and I have to select a template from here. If you don't have a template created template servitors DWT file and keep it in this template directory you can select it from here and in fact, we will touch it full session we will cover about how to create templates how to keep it in this template directory and all we will cover this is a particular session, but right now I am selecting a JC sheet like this okay open again it is asking for drawing description Sundar. So what should be the description for this particular sheet?

I am going to draw the power circuit of a electrical power electrical circuit in this drying. So I'm going to put this is for this particular this description is for only for this particular drying okay power distribution details in Gummer panel, okay, project code if you have some code you can put this installation and line application code these two things you will find in many places incoming this coming session because this is nothing installation means, if you look at a factory or a plant, what you will see is it must be spread across a huge area, okay. So, there may be a section One particular session in one place and the next one next session in another place. So, this location stands for this particular one section. It is just like if you compare a aeroplane cockpit is the location of the plane itself is installation okay plane is installed and the location is its cockpit, cockpit and electricity assume that cockpit is my panel panel number one p word I am putting p one or zero on T divert or you can put p one is my location and this is my lineup one l number two the number of panels many number of panels are clubbed together.

That is called lineup that is my installation and decision Location is single panel, young dose one, that zone and the section subsection again you can put section subsection and all you have it here. So forget about those at least for now. And sheet value this plays an important role sheet value. Sheet value is the property which we are going to put to this value we are going to give to this particular sheet. Because differing wire numbering component tagging cross referencing Yeah, why the thing is linked with this. So, I'm not bothered about all these details.

At least for now, I'm not at all bothered. I just need a file name and I need a sheet value one. Sorry, two. I'm going to treat this as sheet number two. Forget about rust all okay properties do want apply? Yes.

See, now okay. This is my new Dry Erase 002 and in fact, these two the last two, what is this? And this last level What is this? If you see click this project, right click Properties drawing properties, this is brand new to this is that value to the interactive is that this properties This is levered and I want to make it to one. Okay, forget about this one. Now you see 192 and I want to just rename this as easy 001 done it.

Now, inside this project I have two drawings one is ec 001 dot d that is my file name and the last one is my drawing value sheet. This is similar to but unfortunately if you see this this is a different title block here this is another because this is just for a demonstration purposes only I have shown you, you if you have a whopper drawing you can add those that into your project and I have added East 0001 in that fashion. This drawing I have created from New drawing I have selected a particular template and inserted that into this project file. So, there are two ways of adding process And apart from that, whereas you can add drawings here, add drawings, if you have some readily available drawing somewhere else like this, six and seven, okay? Select six and seven. I want to add these toys This is in some other directory I want to bring those here.

Yes. See, now that is also part of this dry, but again see the sheet number you cannot put the sheet same value for all that should be different. So, go here and changing the sheet number two six sheet values to six. Now, you see, I have changed the value to six but it's still one. Sometimes it's happened. So just do a refresh.

Fine now Seven, seven just make a refresh. Now you see, there are four drawings. The first one, I have opened the drawing first added that particular drawing into this project. The second one, I have added a new drawing in this way, giving the file and choosing the template at all. And the other two, I have added up for add drawings and go to the drawing city wherever you're drawing slide. Bring those drawings to here.

So if you see here, you can see different title blocks for all that is not the right way. Because, again, this is just for a demo purpose. So that's why I have shown all the three different options to add drawers In your particular project, okay, this is adding and projects and you can collapse expand collapse you can expand collapse. Now if I want to add a few folders add subfolders I want to add subfolders one sub folder I want to create layouts fine and I will create another subfolder called schematic one is for wiring diagram one disparate panel. Okay. I have created two like this and the first two drawings I want to put it in a in my layout directory so just you can drag and drop those inside this are nice too.

Now that is part of layout, save a six and seven. I would like to put it in in my jerky just a minute now, DC six and seven, I will put it in my schematic. See you know, now there's a folder, there's a project out of a training model project manager. There are two subfolders one nice layout, I will I can create layout diagrams panel layout diagrams inside this folder and I will create the schematic wiring diagrams under this folder. So this way you can do and you can delete this folders remove, you can remove this, but remember, if you remove this for subfolders or folders like this, what happens is all the drawing inside this will get removed. So, if you want to use those drawings first what you should do is you should take away this drawing outside this and place it outside this folder then remove otherwise you will lose those drawings.

So, this is how you can add folders subfolders you can expand these can collapse you can move and you can put the drawing values and the drawing values see if you go to schematic tab here, here you will find drawing properties. You can find it here to drawing properties here, this sheet devalue everything, whatever you find here, you can just go to Particular drawing right click here also you'll find okay. This is how you can add remote drawings and we know we are learn new project new drawing refresh and this is nothing project right utilities that better we will touch later because without doing the wire numbering tagging and all there is no use to cover this topic now. And drawing this concept of configuration This is useful What does it mean? So, now you see in this all this drawing I am in fact I will for right now I will take away this sheet I will remove this for less He is asking Are you sure you want to remote follow at his level?

Yes. I know there is no drugs inside the I have taken all outside. Okay. It's just for your better understanding. I do a refresh now you see it is coming like a zero e 001. That is my file name and only Smartsheet value.

And same way. I've just renamed this release one zero. Rename, it is one zero mega refresh. See, now you see this is my file name. And this is my sheet value. It is appearing here.

So how can we do the setting? So go to drawings display. Here are many options. Right now if you see the right hand side here, only sheet And filename is selected the installation code Location Code subsection drawing number drawing description you can put all this if I selected drawing description one and two and bringing those to the right side and the sheet number I am I want to keep it in the end move down Okay. Now Okay. Now you see you must be remember for one sheet I have given all the details, do you remember the here power distribution details of income or pan and that detail is here now.

So, that is the advantage of giving some descriptions for individual drawing, you can identify if you give only the filename in this way is 0006. So, maybe by Making the drawings you are may be quite sure what is there in this particular sheet but after some times or an unknown person opens destroy he cannot understand what is there in this particular sheet. So better add some descriptive descriptions to each sheet like here control scheme if I'm putting control scheme control scheme for in gamma panel Okay, now you see now I'm I know for the sheet number two is for power distribution details of income on a panel and this is control for income or panel so it's quite clear and in fact if you don't want that to uh we appear in the drawing all the time fine. We just go here Remove these two here.

Okay. It is so simple and further if you don't want this sheet number two, the sun select this okay? Now you will see only the file names only only the file names. So at times you may record to see what is there in this seat. So just to open this, select those things in the same way you can put all this location goals section subsection and a year by the thing maybe within a panel there may be friend rear suction, lots of lots of lots of things. So you can set those whatever you want, you can put those values in said this and then you can display and hide those values.

This is very useful, very useful. And finally this plot plot project, you can publish to a web dw bedsit, the super project You can simply project but make sure they are installed in your PC. So, broad project if I go here, see all the drawings in this particular project is here if you want to select all select all reset, and if you want to select only few you can select those by pressing CTRL button process Okay, here comes I don't use the paper space here, model okay model if you want to run a script file, you can choose this option browse to that script file. And for a newcomer these are all not relevant plotter configuration you have to select plot to file no and it just there are two options okay? And what curve is in the reverse order also you can print an information, just print, plot the project the whole project, you can plot This is all about these tabs which you find in Project Manager okay and if you have already had a project new project see these are all WP file project file.

So if you have rain I will show you if you already have a project you want to open just open go to that particular project and there you won't find any media bridges you will find only this WP file open okay if I know that is over. So this is all about product manager and the next session we will go to wise till then thank you bye