Overview | Features

Electrical Drafting Layouts (EDL) provides a comprehensive drafting template for electrical lighting and power design. Offering intelligent symbology, details, and schedules, EDL is easily customized on a global or per project basis. EDL allows for automatic graphic and text sizing, layer management, quick annotations, and a host of other features.

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Overview | Features

Features

• Exhaustive library of over 400 standard electrical symbols, as well as a collection of easily modified detail diagrams, schedules, and titleblocks. Plug in your existing symbols and have them automatically retrieved, layered, and scaled... to YOUR specifications!
• Intuitive menu systems put all of the available electrical functions at your fingertips for maximum efficiency.
• Automatic graphics/text sizing for all printed drawing scales.
• 100% customizable layer management, accommodating all layering procedures including per-project or per-client methods. "On-the-fly" modifiable layer naming is provided.
• Modular riser symbols for quick assembly of single-line diagrams. Symbols and connecting feeders snap together quickly in building-block fashion.
• Automatic labeling features for circuitry, feeders, special raceways, cabling, fixtures and equipment, with various line-breaking routines and branch or feeder markings.
• Innovative symbol customization for the usage and management of multiple user or client symbol libraries.
• Quick measurement reporting of circuit routings. (Measurements are stored only in the cadLive product.)
• A complete architectural drafting toolkit for creation or modification of building backgrounds.
• Simple features to administer and accelerate single and multiple text entries.
• Guaranteed compatibility with all other AutoCAD applications.
• Open-access architecture for complete customization.
• Drawings created using good block and layer techniques such as those in Electrical Drafting Layouts will provide even faster takeoff results to users of cadLive.