

Plot it off, tape it down and off you went. You could edit the menu file, and there was a drawing of this tablet screen where you could add or delete or move things around. It may even go all the way back to having all of my symbols right in front of me on one of those massive tablets we used to use back in the day.Īnyone remember these? They could be configured to include custom commands or symbols pretty much anywhere on the tablet, but primarily in the empty top section. Of course, it may just be that this is not the way I am used to doing things, coming from so many years of using plain AutoCAD ® for all of our schematics.

Lots of flexibility there, but not the most user friendly interface, in my humble opinion. This is also manageable through the Icon Menu Wizard tool.

These symbols are all accessible through an Icon Menu that has multiple screens and nested menus. you can add to them, subtract from them and even modify the existing symbols through the Symbol Builder tool in the program. All of these libraries are fully customizable. It also contains a huge library out of the box of electrical panel footprint symbols, for creating physical panel layouts. AutoCAD ® Electrical has a massive symbol library of schematic symbols for electrical, hydraulic/pneumatic and for P&ID’s. Some of you may not know what I’m talking about, so here is some background.

Then a few more hours of testing turned up some show stopping problems and I pulled the teaser… dejected and frustrated. I posted a teaser a few weeks ago thinking I had the question answered, and all I had to do was write the post. Additional symbols may have been subsequently added by Autodesk and therefore this document is not guaranteed to be complete either.Wow… this one has been a while coming. The following does not include the parametric and/or dynamic symbols such as cables, PLC’s nor the dynamic source and destinations and only shows single phase representations of devices. The purpose of this white paper is to provide new users with a quick reference guide without having to view each individual web page on the Autodesk website. The following document shows the default symbols that are included within the IEC2 (& IEC4) library in accordance with IEC60617. Following on from the following previous blog about “What Symbols are contained within the Libraries of AutoCAD Electrical?” some new users have found the Autodesk web page cumbersome in understanding what symbols are contained in the IEC2 library which is still predominantly the main library used by users of AutoCAD Electrical within Northern Europe, we thought it prudent to provide a single PDF document detailing the core symbols within the library.
