Throughout initial design, detailed drawing and product documentation stages, CADELEC provides up-to-the minute tools covering all aspects of electro-mechanical system development.

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CADELEC packs a full range of custom drafting functions specifically tailored for electrical system designers, and includes full checking and listing features to minimize the risk of error throughout the design process. For optimum productivity and project coherence, CADELEC can be networked into a design work group, allowing different designers to share the same libraries and catalogues throughout the project.

Newcomers to CAD find CADELEC easy to learn, thanks to a standard Windows interface with drop-down menus and toolbars. Context sensitive help is only a mouse click away.

Using CADELEC, even inexperienced users can create drawings in record time, by accessing libraries that contain over 300 pre-drawn symbols, to DIN, IEC, NEN, BS, ANSI-IEEE, JIC and CSA standards. These standard libraries can be customized to meet special needs, and you can create new libraries and symbols as required.

CADELEC offers two fully-interchangeable methods for preparing schematics: either you can draw the schematics first and compute the bill of material later; or you define the bill of material first, and pick components to insert in the drawing later. This kind of flexibility means developers can calculate exact project costs before starting construction work.

A sophisticated navigator function eliminates the need for time-consuming manual searches between contacts, parts and terminals. Just click on a relay contact, and CADELEC will automatically go to the drawing that contains the coil (or vice versa). This also works between terminals and pinout drawings, and between cabinet layouts and schematics.

CADELEC also integrates PLC support features, with automatic functions for numbering, describing and marking input/outputs. The package will even import and export PLC command reports.

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Networking

CADELEC supports networking into a multi-user design group, allowing different designers to work in the same project at the same time and to share libraries and catalogues.

Checks

CADELEC offers full checking and reporting functions, for step-by-step project analysis and documentation. Regardless of the number of designers, it will check all cross references throughout the project and detail all errors encountered. It also cross-references all wires at the same potential.


Terminal and cable management

CADELEC's terminal-editor function automatically manages all the terminals and cables in a project, allowing you to change terminal blocks, set cable and wire specifications, and determine wire lengths. There are three alternatives for specifying cables terminal strips and external devices:

• dialog box in schematic
• data entry in terminal editor (prior to generating terminal pinout)

Schematics and terminal pinout diagrams are updated automatically, regardless of the cable specification method. And CADELEC also generates terminal pinout diagrams automatically, in a choice of standard formats. Bridges between terminals with the same equipotential are drawn automatically.

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Manufacturer catalogues

CADELEC supports a virtually unlimited number of manufacturer catalogues for each project. Entries for any device can be made in five different languages, and catalogues can be sorted by language or other criteria.

The program even provides assistance for component selection, by matching electrical characteristics to symbols, then and generating parts, materials and order lists automatically.

You can optimize project costing by merely changing the catalogue. At the click of a button, CADELEC lets you compare project costs across alternative procurement scenarios.

Applying a built-in filter feature, you can print specific requirements lists to analyse specific cost factors (e.g. motor system only). CADELEC comes with 60 different kinds of lists, in nine language versions, and you can compile your own custom lists to meet company-specific or client-specific standards. You can also choose to output the result in Excel form or text form too.

Cabinet fitting

In addition to its advanced wiring design functions, CADELEC also facilitates cabinet layout work, by computing space requirements automatically to output basic criteria for cabinet selection. Then, you can actually pick devices from a fitting list and locate them in the cabinet layout drawing effortlessly; CADELEC will automatically look up part dimension data from the relevant catalogue, and draw in the outlines true to scale. When you pick an item from the list, the outline appears in the cabinet layout and the part disappears from the list, which means there's no risk of inserting the sale device twice. CADELEC also detects inconsistencies between schematics and cabinet layout drawings. For example, if you delete a component a schematic, CADELEC will automatically flags the component outline in red in the relevant cabinet layout drawing.

If you project for countries with a different native language, the new automatic translator will translate your descriptive comments in the drawing  into the language of your customer. This may mean closing a deal or not.

CADELEC includes a user-expandable dictionary of technical terms for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech, Polish and Hungarian. You can add more languages.

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Four modules for different user needs

Drawing and Analysis Module

• Draw single-phase and three-phases wires
• Manage voltage ratings
• Insert electrical symbols
• Annotate technical data into the drawings
• Cross-Reference Devices and check for errors
• Cross-Reference Wires
• Print Device Labels

• Over 60 pre-defined reports, including bills of materials and parts lists
• Automatic generation of device IDs, with user-definable formulas
• Automatic numbering of wires and terminals
• Automatic updating of device IDs, cross references, cable specifications and technical data
• Automatic project plotting
• Automatic management of title boxes
• User-definable functions
• Batch jobs for library elements
• Batch routines for projects and selected drawings (e.g. reset and renumber all the parts in specified project)

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• Compute space requirements for selection of cabinet
• Pick and place devices from device list
• Finished Cabinet Drawing
• Pre-computation of project costs
• Insertion of devices into schematic drawings from pre-defined bill of materials

• Management of terminal blocks, cables and wires
• Automatic Computation of Bridges between terminals with the same equipotential
• Automatic Generation of Terminal Pinout diagrams with straps
• Automatic generation of connection lists (internal and external wiring)

• PLC support functions
• Import and export of PLC address lists to ASCII files
• Cross-reference Master and Slave PLCs

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Localized Versions, Available Languages

CADELEC is available in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Latin-American Spanish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish.

CADELEC has enjoyed worldwide acceptance among electrical engineers since 1986.

Recommended System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or corresponding processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 2000 Professional, SP 4 or later
• AutoCAD 2000-2007
• 512MB RAM
• 200MB free disk space
• SVGA display of 1024x768 or higher
• Mouse or other pointing device
• CD-ROM drive

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