I was using valuable time unproductively. Important to note that AutoCAD Electrical (AE) is not at fault here, rather the fact that I'm a small business and doing programming, building panels, commissioning etc and just don't have the time to butt heads with an enormous package.

Soon afterwards I dreaded the drawing part of the job or simply omitted drawings all together (well-labelled panels of course) due to the difficulties in creating simple to intermediate drawings, say 3 to 20 pages.Īs in Electra, apart from the experience in related Microsoft products that I'm sure all of us have, I was able to create a 3-page drawing for a job with NO backwards steps on the first afternoon I had it. I had the opportunity to evaluate the AE 2014 from someone else's laptop, and after spending who knows how long, on trying to get the title block setup properly, I managed to create a drawing. I literally spent all of my time butting heads with AutoCAD Electrical (AE), which is a super capable and enormous package. It had the electrical specific multi-page features that were not available on free/basic packages which only creates 2D/static single page drawings and most parts had to be custom made. Initially, I started with AutoCAD Electrical (AE) for a couple of reasons, it was what most of the drawings I had been exposed to create on. Electra perpetual license was the best solution for him.

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