Which Electrical CAD program do you use?

[ianingram]

Bah.. too tired, too much wine consumed... I voted 'Promis*e', when I meant to vote 'AutoCad Electrical'.

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That makes up for my mistake.. I voted for Autocad Electrical instead of Promis e.

Promis e is good, but has a steep learning curve..

 

[elevmike]

Turbocad Pro ver 12 great program, I use it for wiring diagrams and 3d plant upgrades

Ray,

About a year ago I upgraded from TurboCad 1.9 (DOS) to Turbocad 11. Liked it so much I just upgraded to TC Pro 12. I looked at a lot of CAD packages and couldnt find a better value. Turbo Cad will work with about 20 different file formats including DWG & DXF. Very good help dialog, and the user forum is good also. Use it for both electrical drawings & 3D mechanical drawings. I just wish the name of the Groups & Blocks would be displayed in the selector popup box instead of group, group, group...

 

[jolio ST]

My preference on ACad is limited..the company used it, i learnt to use it as well.. I previously used Cadence Orcad mainly for PCB schematics...it's pretty alright, apart from the pricing.. feels almost like working on ACad.

Regards
Sherine T.

 

[CaseyK]

I've used most. Caterpillar had litterally dozens of programs, now they use Pro-E, Pro-Harness, etc. yechhhhhhh!!!!!!


Around my office, I usually use AutoCAD LT, but sometimes real ACad.

At Siemens, I has ACad R14, 2005, and Promise-E. The ACad programs were FAST! Promise-E locked up a lot, it took 10-20 minutes to load sometimes, could use a lot of the ACad commands, was very difficult to do simple ACad functions if they would even work. For what extra stuph Promise-E did, it was not worth the money because you had to redo so much, like move wires on the schematics.

I loaded something last summer, can't remember what it was. The ICON was flourescent green, did charts and flow sheets great, but electrical or mechanical drafting were a joke. Then I start getting several emails a day from the manufacturer that appeared to be driven by the contents of my emails, so I deleted it. Wish I could remember the name. I need to go through the old threads.

Tom uses a nice alternative to ACad, but the name escapes me. If I had to buy one, that's what I would get! I think it's called DesignCad.

Here is a similar thread that surfaced a few years back.

 

[seppoalanen]

I have done my own since 1984 and I have spend 10.000h my free time for it. Drawings are as "HTML-pages" with database links.