Product Description

AutoCAD® Electrical is AutoCAD® software for controls designers. Purpose-built to create and modify electrical control systems, it contains all the functionality of AutoCAD plus an extensive set of electrical-specific features and functions that offer significant productivity gains.

Error Checking & Prevention
AutoCAD Electrical includes automatic error-checking capabilities that reduce the errors introduced when manually tracking design information, helping you to avoid problems before they cause costly production delays.
Standards-Based Drafting and Component Libraries
AutoCAD Electrical supports international standards and provides comprehensive libraries of manufacturer content and symbols, enabling users to easily create standards-based designs that comply with industry requirements.
Design & Drafting Productivity Tools
AutoCAD Electrical software offers controls designers immediate productivity gains with a complete set of specialized features and tools developed specifically for the creation of accurate industry-standard electrical control systems.
Schematic Design Tools
Create and modify electrical control schematics more accurately and in fraction of the time with AutoCAD Electrical.
Panel Layout Tools
With AutoCAD Electrical you can quickly and easily create panel layout drawings with intelligent updating to reduce errors.
Comprehensive Terminal Management
Increase design accuracy and reduce the complexity involved when working with terminals in a design.
Collaboration & Interoperability
AutoCAD Electrical enables both electrical and mechanical teams to work collaboratively on the digital prototype by making it easy to share the electrical intent from the controls design in AutoCAD Electrical with other Autodesk applications.
Data Management & Reporting Tools
AutoCAD Electrical software includes built-in tools that generate and update critical reports, providing accurate information to manufacturing. Fully integrated data management tools make it easy to securely store and manage your work-in-process design data.
Data Migration Tools
Save hours of rework with automatic conversion of data into intelligent AutoCAD Electrical designs without losing previous customizations.

System Requirements

The following recommendations apply to AutoCAD® Electrical software. Note that Microsoft® Windows® XP Starter Edition and Tablet PC Edition are not supported at this time.
32-bit Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4 processor recommended
- Microsoft® Windows® XP (Professional or Home Edition (SP2) or Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows Vista
- 512 MB RAM
- 2.5 GB free disk space for installation*
- 1024x768 VGA with true color
- MS Mouse-compliant pointing device
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (SP1) or higher
- Installation from DVD or CD-ROM

*Additional system requirements apply for Autodesk Vault and the Data Management Server

64-bit Requirements
- AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T, or Intel Pentium 4 with EM64T support
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition , Windows VISTA 64 bit
- 1 GB RAM (more than 1.5 preferred)
- Supports Windows display adapter capable of 1024x768 VGA with true color capabilities; Open GL and DirectX 9
- 2.75 GB of free disk space
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or higher
- MS-Mouse compliant pointing device
- DVD

Autodesk Data Management Server (ADMS)

The following recommendations apply to Autodesk Data Management Server software. (These requirements are in addition to any system requirements for individual applications.)
Recommended System Requirements
- Intel® Pentium 4, Xeon®, or AMD Athlon™ processor, 2 GHz or better processor
- 1GB RAM, or more
- 60 GB free disk space, or more

Preferred System Requirements
- Pentium 4, Xeon, or AMD Athlon processor, 2 GHz or better processor
- 2 GB RAM or more
- 120 GB free disk space, or more
Supported Operating Systems
- Microsoft® Windows Vista™**

- Microsoft Windows® XP Professional*** 32/64 bit
- Microsoft Windows 20003 Professional 32 bit (SP4)
- Microsoft Windows Server® 2000* 32 bit (SP4)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard* 32/64 bit (SP1)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard* R2 32/64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise* 32/64 bit (SP1)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2* 32/64 bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SB Edition* 32/64 bit (SP1)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SB Edition R2* 32/64 bit
Supported Databases
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Desktop Edition, MSDE (SP3a, SP4)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Standard Edition (SP3a, SP4)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Enterprise Edition (SP3a, SP4)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express (SP0, SP1)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Workgroup (SP0, SP1)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard (SP0, SP1)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (SP0, SP1)

* For best performance on servers, Autodesk recommends a dedicated member (non-domain controller) server

** Limited to a maximum of 10 concurrent requests (Data Management queries). In order to a support large number of additional requests or users, Autodesk recommends a server operating system along with the server version of Microsft SQL Server 2000 (Standard or Enterprise Edition), or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup, Standard, or Enterprise Edition).  In order to use these other SQL Versions, you must purchase this software separately from Microsoft or a Microsoft reseller.

*** Limited to a maximum of 10 concurrent connections (Data Management queries). In order to a support large number of additional requests or users, Autodesk recommends a server operating system along with the server version of Microsft SQL Server 2000 (Standard or Enterprise Edition), or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup, Standard, or Enterprise Edition).  In order to use these other SQL Versions, you must purchase this software separately from Microsoft or a Microsoft reseller.