learning autodesk autocad electrical 2015 training video

And I would definitely start spending time on this forum. I would learn about ACAD as well as ACADE, and I would spend some time learning the relevant standards of your area (NFPA for the US and most of North America). If you're going to be more at the technician level, and will be using this software daily to create drawings and do schematic design, I would take the deepest dive that time allows. It's up to your techs to know which ones are best to use when. In this case, it would be enough to just know what tools are available. I wouldn't worry about my speed necessarily, or in how best to leverage ACADE's tools to make things go faster and easier. I'd focus more on ACADE than Vanilla, and on how to create basic schematics. In that case, I'd learn enough to be able to do what needs doing, but only so I could properly direct the people who will actually do that work. If you are going to be an engineer, then the chances are that you'll use it less than an engineering technician or CAD technician would.

One of the best ways to learn this software is by experimenting with it: just start a drawing and put stuff in there.Īs you experiment, try and anticipate just how much you'll actually be using the software. (fyi, here and in most other forums for ACAD verticals, we refer to plain ACAD as Vanilla. It's just important to compartmentalize what you know about each and keep them separate.

But, the other side of that coin is that sometimes people ignore the 'autocad' part of AutoCAD Electrical. The standard advice on this forum is, 'Don't use a vanilla ACAD command if ACADE has its own version of that command.' And it's good advice, I recommend everyone follow it.

If you've used ACAD or any other vericals before, you have an advantage. Running ACADE well means not just having knowledge of electricity, circuits, etc but also having knowledge of the ACAD environment: how to draw lines and shapes the difference between lines and polylines how to set up plots using layers dimensioning and annotations how to construct and use blocks plan views vs section 's a really long list.

This means that it's really AutoCAD with some bells and whistles, and what that means to you is that the AutoCAD environment is what everything runs in. AutoCAD Electrical is what is known as an AutoCAD 'vertical'.

Learning autodesk autocad electrical 2015 training video