Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2011

AutoCAD Electrical is AutoCAD software for controls designers, built to create and modify electrical control systems. It contains all the functionality of AutoCAD, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating control engineering tasks, such as building circuits, numbering wires, and creating bills of material. AutoCAD Electrical provides a library of more than 650,000 electrical symbols and components, includes real-time error checking, and enables electrical and mechanical teams to collaborate on digital prototypes built with Autodesk Inventor software.

Features:

Productivity Enhancements
AutoCAD Electrical 2011 offers controls designers intense productivity gains with a set of advanced features and tools designed to help create precise electrical control systems.

Catalog Lookup
AutoCAD Electrical 2011 makes great improvements to the catalog lookup process. Database performance enhancements enable faster loading times. Users have instant access to the extensive component catalog, where improved filtering and sorting make it quick and easy to find the exact component needed.

Import Wire Types
AutoCAD Electrical 2011 enables users to easily reuse frequently specified wire types. Import wire types from an existing drawing or template into another drawing.

Item Numbering
Item numbering supports fixed item numbers on panel components. Fixed item numbers do not change when the Resequence Item Numbers command is run.

Location Boxes
Enhancements to the Location Box functionality make it easy to identify locations for a device or group of devices, resulting in more precise panel layouts. When inserting a Location Box, a checkbox on the Location Box dialog box indicates whether to update the Location and Installation values for parent components that fall within the new location box.

Suppress Wire Collision Check
AutoCAD Electrical 2011 makes wiring components into designs quicker by enabling users to turn Wire Collision on or off with a single click. Default behavior routes around a component when routing a wire from one location to another.

Project-Specific Catalog Database
AutoCAD Electrical 2011 users can create a project-specific catalog database by including just the relevant portion of the catalog database that was used for the project. This command starts with the default_cat.mdb database and removes all catalog values not used in the project drawings.

System requirements:

For 32-bit AutoCAD Electrical

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home and Professional (SP2 or later), or Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP1 or later) Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, and Home Premium editions, or Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, and Home Premium editions (compare Windows versions)
• Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology for Windows XP, or Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology for Windows Vista or Windows 7
• 2 GB RAM
• 4 GB free disk space for installation (5 GB for a clean machine with no .NET installed)
• 1,280 x 1,024 display with True Color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device

For 64-bit AutoCAD Electrical

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2 and later), or Microsoft Windows Vista (SP1 or later) Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, and Home Premium editions, or Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, and Home Premium editions (compare Windows versions)
• AMD Athlon with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron® with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 4.5 GB free disk space for installation (5 GB for a clean system with no .NET installed)
• 1,280 x 1,024 display with True Color
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant point device

Additional Requirements for 3D Modeling

• Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3 GHz or greater, or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater
• 2 GB RAM or greater
• 2 GB free hard disk available, not including installation
• 1,280 x 1,024 32-bit color video display adapter (True Color) 128 MB or greater, Direct3D®-capable workstation-class graphics card