Let's say you need a switch symbol that isn't included in the AutoCAD Electrical Library. Although you could use standard AutoCAD tools to add the attributes needed, the tools in the Symbol Builder make the task much easier - and faster. AutoCAD Electrical's Symbol Builder includes tools to help you turn ordinary AutoCAD blocks into intelligent electrical blocks. This is where the Symbol Builder, formerly called the Black Box Builder, comes in. But what about components that aren't part of the extensive library? You could insert plain AutoCAD blocks into your drawings, but then you would lose AutoCAD Electrical's parametric abilities - the ability to tie components together and to automatically generate reports based on information stored in the application's intelligent blocks.

There are hundreds of these smart blocks, or symbols, included with AutoCAD Electrical. In AutoCAD Electrical, the symbols that you place into your schematics are basically AutoCAD blocks that have been made 'intelligent' with added attributes. A Steel Shape library with roughly 1,050 is also available.Creating AutoCAD Electrical Blocks (Avatech Tricks Tutorial) 31 Dec, 2006 By: Greg Shaffer Use Symbol Builder to convert standard blocks. In addition, other combined libraries include Pneumatic and Hydraulic and contain more than 1,450 blocks. Steel Shapes-predrawn W,S,C,MC, H and L shapes with appropriate AISI, AISC or ANSI standards.Ĭombined Electrical and Fluid Power libraries consists of more than 2,750 symbols. Pneumatic-ships with valve outlines, solenoids, actuators, fixed and variable flow controls and over 100 center spool configurations. Hydraulic-includes solenoids, actuators, filters, heat exchangers, relief valves, cylinders, pumps, motors, check valves and other regulating valves. The AutoCAD 2013 compatible industrial libraries within CADSYM consist of the following:Įlectrical ANSI Y32.2 & IEC 617-contains symbols including bells, buzzers, horns, signal lights, capacitors, resistors, disconnects, fuses and circuit breakers. Both Imperial (US) and Metric are also provided with each library.

Included with the electrical block collection is an integrated pull-down menu within AutoCAD comprising of various block libraries all which are now compatible with AutoCAD 2013.Įach symbol is accurately drawn on Layer 0 so that current layer standards can be implemented. Customers have been really surprised with how extensive this block library is.” SimpleCAD President Erik Zetterberg said, “This fluid power and electrical symbol library is one of our more popular libraries. The block library is comprised of electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic control systems. SimpleCAD has announced that it is preparing many of their industrial block libraries for the new AutoCAD 2013 release expected to arrive in spring 2012. SimpleCAD completed 2013 testing on one of their flagship products called the CAD-SYM library.

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