It was one program running inside another. Promis-e was eventually 'manipulated' to run inside AutoCAD's space, but it was not a true AutoCAD application. It still was not corrected in 1997 when I switched to the program now known as AutoCAD Electrical. Promis-e 'promised' me that the problem would be solved by September 15th the year we purchased the program, 1991. I had to create 11 different angled wire symbols to get by.

Things as simple as the angled wire were nearly impossible to achieve and get the wires to show up on the wire list with the correct wiring sequence. Promis-e got the job done but the learning curve was steep and the 'work-arounds' were numerous. I have been designing to IEC standards/the standards to achieve the GS and CE ratings since before they were required in the USA. We used ELCAD until switching to the original Unix/MSDOS Promis-e in 1991.

My Friend, I started working for a German company in 1988. I wonder if anything like this is available from autodesk. Their products in 'ready to be imported into the software' formats as free Siemens ,Omron ,Weidmueller,Pilz and Phoenix Contact etc.Īll of them offer their equipment data and ready made custom symbols of Vendors collaboration with various manufacturers - Schneider Electric, When it comes to panel design and machine layouts.Ī plus for EPLAN was its ability to produce PDF files, as well as the However ACADE has more ' bang for the bug' and seems much more user friendly Much on the same level as far as the generation of electrical drawings goes. Wrote in message been using both programs as trialversions and found them to be very

Please let me know if you have any other questions. AutoCAD Electrical has aĭatabase merge utility that makes it easy for users to bring content updates Internal team of developers who is responsible for building manufacturerĬatalog content as our customers request it. That can be easily brought into AutoCAD Electrical. You mention below to get them to provide their catalog content in a format Regarding vendor content, we are working directly with some of the vendors If writing PDF files is criticalĪnd DWF is not an option, you can write these files directly out of AutoCAD

Its own lightweight file format called the DWF format which can be writtenĭirectly from within AutoCAD Electrical. As for writing PDF files natively, Autodesk has

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