Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 3D design software for entertainment, natural resources, manufacturing, engineering, construction, and civil infrastructure, announced the release of Autocad Electrical 2018, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, is AutoCAD software for controls designers, purpose-built to create and modify electrical control systems.

AutoCAD electrical 2018 design software helps electrical engineers and detailers drive control system design productivity to previously unachievable levels with specialised electrical design functionality and toolsets geared to electrical control system design requirements.

Productivity gains are huge compared to using traditional AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT with studies showing increase of productivity of up to 80% due to AutoCAD electrical's fully featured intelligent symbol libraries, real time error checking tools and coil, contact referencing and checking, automatic creation of PLC I/O drawings to name just a few features of AutoCAD Electrical software.

AutoCAD electrical design software's reporting tools further add to this powerhouses set of productivity tools as manual time consuming reporting and report updating is now a thing of the past, as the software can create multiple electrical design report types at the click of a button.

AutoCAD Electrical is available for individual subscription, and it is also part of the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, which is helpful for users involved with digital prototyping workflows or who need to export data for re-use in 3D modelling software such as Autodesk inventor software.

What's new

AutoCAD 2018 New Feature Summary

The following is an overview of the changes made to AutoCAD 2018, including the AutoCAD 2017 Update releases.

High Resolution (4K) Monitor Support
User interface elements such as the cursor, navigation bar, and UCS icon display correctly on high-resolution (4K) monitors. Most dialog boxes, palettes, and toolbars are correctly adjusted to the Windows setting for the display scale. For the best results use Windows 10 due to operation system limitations, and use a DX11-capable graphics card.

PDF Import
PDF files generated from AutoCAD drawings that contain SHX text store the text as geometric objects. You can use the PDFSHXTEXT command to convert the SHX geometry back into text, which now includes an option to use the best matching SHX font. The TXT2MTXT command has been enhanced with several improvements including the option to force uniform line spacing.

Primary commands: PDFIMPORT, PDFSHXTEXT, TXT2MTXT

Visual Experience
The improvements include the following:

Hatch display and performance are enhanced.
Anti-aliasing and high quality graphics settings for supported graphics cards can now be controlled independently from each other.
Off-screen object selection works as expected in all cases.
The orange rubber-band line that appears when you create and edit objects can now be set to any color from the Options dialog box, Display tab, Colors button.
Primary system variables: LINESMOOTHING, HQGEOM, SELECTIONOFFSCREEN, OPTIONS

External Reference Paths
The default path type for external references is now set to Relative. Two new path options are available: Select New Path, and Find and Replace. Additional capabilities include the following:

When you fix the path for a missing external reference, you can now apply the same path for other missing reference files.
When you save the host drawing in a new location, you are prompted to update the relative paths for the external references.
The Change Path Type option in the External References palette now reflects the current path type when a single external reference is selected. The current path type is not accessible, which lets you know which path type is current.
You can attach references with Relative Path type for unnamed files.
Primary command and system variable: EXTERNALREFERENCES, REFPATHTYPE

3D Graphics Performance
Additional performance improvements have been made when using 3DORBIT, and panning and zooming with the following 3D visual styles: Wireframe, Realistic, and Shaded. For best results, we recommend that you use a 64-bit machine and a compatible graphics card.

Primary commands: 3DORBIT, ZOOM, PAN, VSCURRENT

DWG Format Update
The DWG format has been updated to provide improvements in the efficiency of open and save operations, especially for drawings that contain many annotative objects and viewports. Additionally, 3D solid and surface creation now uses the newest geometric modeler (ASM), which provides improved security and stability.

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Product: Autodesk Autocad Electrical
Version: 2018 with Help
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Language: english
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even / 8.x / 10



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