Software training firm Infinite Skills Inc. this week released its “Learning Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2015 Tutorial,” an introductory course designed to teach the essential tools, commands, and best practices for designing electrical projects with this popular AutoCAD extension for electrical engineers.
AutoCAD Electrical is an extension of the standard AutoCAD software, adding a complete set of electrical CAD features, including comprehensive symbol libraries and effective tools for automating electrical design tasks.
Infinite Skills’ Learning Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2015 Tutorial targets this set of tools, providing instruction and demonstrations for using a wide selection of its most important tools and features, providing new users with all the skills and tools necessary to begin creating their own electrical projects.
Course author Shaun Bryant is a training consultant with 20 years of hands-on experience as an AutoCAD user in civil and structural engineering practice. He has worked for Autodesk in sales, support, and training, and is currently an Autodesk Approved Instructor, holding AutoCAD 2013 Certified Professional status. Bryant currently provides AutoCAD training and consultancy professionally.
Bryant begins with the basics, demonstrating fundamentals such as navigation, working with the DWG filetype, introducing the modeling environment, and cloud interaction using Autodesk 360.
The course then continues with an in-depth guide to setup and preparation as Bryant explains drafting settings, introduces some typical electrical drawings, and explains the basic workflow. He then goes into detail with the electrical user interface, demonstrating how to use commands in the electrical environment, work with the project manager, adjust graphical performance, create backups, and more.
Bryant then devotes several chapters to learning to draw electrical schematics. He provides detailed demonstrations on working with wires and ladders, using schematic components, editing schematics, using connectors, and creating point-to-point and circuit diagrams.
The course concludes with chapters looking in detail at AutoCAD Electrical's reporting tools and output options.
"This is a highly detailed course, designed for beginners, in which we'll cover as much as we can in AutoCAD Electrical," Bryant says.
"The course is designed so that students will learn to create their own electrical projects and generate the database behind those projects."
