Autocad? Mechanical is based on the Autocad? platform - the world's best-selling design application - and uses the native DWG format, providing access to the largest design community worldwide.


Autocad? Electrical
If your company designs machines or products that move, electrical controls are probably a key component of the design requirement. Until now, electrical control designers have relied on generic applications that are problematic because they require manual layout of electrical schematics, introduce design errors, and provide no simple way to share design information - a combination that ultimately costs your company time and money.

Now there's an application that delivers the tools needed to design and modify electrical controls faster and more accurately than ever before: Autocad? Electrical software, the leading 2D application built specifically to create and modify electrical controls designs.

As part of the Autocad? family of software products, Autocad? Electrical enables users to increase design productivity, reduce errors, automate key control systems design tasks, and facilitate collaboration, all while maintaining a seamless integration with the Autocad? environment you're familiar with today. Stay ahead of the competition with Autocad? Electrical - the only logical choice for electrical controls design.

Differentiating Features
Increase your productivity
?Automate your most common tasks with purpose built design software.
?Instantly generate accurate Bill of Materials reports directly from the design to ensure all required components are purchased.
?Easily incorporate your electrical control designs into your 2D or 3D designs.
?Automatically update hidden lines and dimensions as design changes occur with the associative 2D hide and dimensioning tools.
?Group lines, arcs, and circles together with Mechanical Structure to create intelligent parts that Autocad? Mechanical can manage as assemblies, allowing you to easily express and revise designs.
?Associatively document Autodesk Inventor? parts and assemblies directly from within Autocad? Mechanical.

Reduce inconsistencies & Streamline design tasks with Autocad? Mechanical & Autocad? Electrical
?Because Autocad? Mechanical Autocad? Electrical are built on Autocad?, you can share your designs in the RealDWG format and ensure that your design data will not be compromised by third party conversion tools.
?Support for international drafting standards and libraries of parts ensure that Autocad? Mechanical and Autocad? Electrical users produce standards based designs with consistent components.
?Organise, find, and reuse valuable design data through integrated data management with Autodesk? Vault.
?Reduce mistakes introduced by manually tracking design information with automatic error checking capabilities.
?Reduce errors and provide accurate information to manufacturing with built-in reporting tools, allowing you to spend more time designing and less time generating reports.