AutoCAD Electrical | Intermediate - Project Setup for Administrators

AutoCAD Electrical | Intermediate – Project Setup for Administrators is a comprehensive two-day private course, delivered virtually or in person, focused on customising and configuring your AutoCAD Electrical environment. Led by an Autodesk Certified Instructor, this course combines hands-on training with live configuration, enabling participants to work directly with the instructor to create a fully operational AutoCAD Electrical environment tailored to their organisation, which can be implemented directly on projects by the course’s conclusion.

This is a highly customisable training program that will be tailored to address your organisation’s requirements. Prior to the course, your team will meet with an ARKANCE technical specialist for a consultation to define key focus areas, understand your challenges, and gather essential information. Throughout the training, you will engage with various customisation and configuration tools within AutoCAD Electrical, such as creating and managing custom symbol libraries, modifying icon menu interfaces, and integrating these elements into your organisation's system. Additionally, the course covers how to edit and integrate manufacturer data within the catalogue database, ensuring accurate and up-to-date component information across projects. You will learn how to develop custom PLC libraries to streamline data management, ensuring consistency and efficiency when working with PLCs. As the course progresses, you will practise generating and customising reporting templates for thorough project documentation, as well as creating drawing templates that link directly to essential project information. You will learn how to configure master project settings, manage file search paths, and centralise library paths and project files, ensuring consistency and ease of access across all projects. This training is fully interactive, providing opportunities for your team to learn while the instructor directly applies these configurations to your system. The course concludes with thorough testing and validation of all customisations to ensure that the new setup aligns with your company’s specific requirements and is ready for integration into projects.

By the end of the course, your team will have acquired valuable expertise in configuring and customising AutoCAD Electrical, while also establishing a tailored setup aligned with your specific needs. This approach ensures that your team can confidently maintain and adjust the setup as needed, fostering long-term efficiency and consistency in your electrical design projects.

During this course, participants will explore the following modules:

• Module 0 – Short Discovery Workshop: Before the main training begins, your team will participate in a Discovery Workshop with an ARKANCE technical specialist. This initial consultation is designed to define key focus areas, understand your organisation’s unique challenges, and gather essential information. Conducted on a separate day from the main training, this workshop ensures that the subsequent course is highly relevant and tailored to your specific needs, setting a strong foundation for the customised configuration process.
• Module 1 – Custom Symbols | Custom Library: Explore the customisation tools in AutoCAD Electrical, such as creating and managing custom schematic symbol libraries and modifying icon menu interfaces. Learn how to integrate these libraries and menus into your company’s system, whether centrally hosted or installed on individual PCs, to ensure alignment with project requirements. These tools enable you to tailor the software to your organisation while maintaining a consistent environment for all users.
• Module 2 – Custom Catalogue Database: Learn how to customise and edit manufacturer information within the catalogue database, tailoring it to your specific project needs. This allows you to maintain accurate and up-to-date component data, reducing errors and improving the efficiency of your design process. Discover how to integrate these customised databases into your company’s system, whether on a central server or installed on individual PCs, to maintain smooth data management and consistency across all projects.
• Module 3 – Custom PLC Library: Dive into editing PLC databases for symbols and manufacturer data. Understand how to set up and manage PLC libraries within your company’s system, whether configured on a central server or deployed across individual PCs. This approach ensures accurate and efficient PLC data management, helping you maintain consistency and streamline workflows across various projects.
• Module 4 – Custom Reporting: Learn how to use AutoCAD Electrical’s reporting tools to generate and configure report templates, simplifying the creation of detailed, high-quality documentation for your projects. This module focuses on setting up reporting tools within your company’s system, whether centrally managed or installed locally on individual PCs. These tools streamline documentation processes, enabling faster report generation, consistency, and easy access to essential project information.
• Module 5 – Custom Drawing Template: Create a customised AutoCAD Electrical drawing template using a standard attributed drawing sheet that links to essential project and drawing information. Learn how to set up tables for reports, explore wire and layer configurations, and incorporate other critical drawing elements to maintain consistency across all your projects. This module also covers the integration of the template into your company’s system, whether on a server or individual workstations.
• Module 6 – Custom Master Project: Learn how to set up a master project for your organisation. Explore project settings, including components, wire numbers, cross-referencing, styles, and drawing formats. Discover how to configure file search paths for symbols and icon menus to ensure consistency across all projects. This module provides guidance on integrating these settings into a centralised or individual setup within your organisation.
• Module 7 – Custom Paths | Centralised Files & Libraries | Desktop Startup Buttons: Understand how to configure AutoCAD Electrical search file path options, template settings, and profiles. Learn how to set up desktop startup buttons and duplicate support files into a centralised AutoCAD Electrical library. This module also covers the centralisation of library paths and project files, ensuring easier access and management across teams, whether they are set up on a server or deployed to individual PCs.
• Module 8 – Testing & Sign-Off: Perform thorough testing of all customisations and project file setups to ensure that your AutoCAD Electrical environment functions as intended. This module includes a comprehensive review of each customised feature and final adjustments before sign-off. This critical step ensures that the new setup aligns with your company’s specific requirements and is ready for integration into real-world projects, providing confidence in its reliability during daily use.

Before the course, you will receive a Course Pack containing training notes and/or files that need to be downloaded prior to joining the training.

This course includes 12 months of complimentary access to the course-related ASCENT Center for Technical Knowledge e-book (valued at 90 USD) which contains files that need to be installed prior to joining the training. This e-book provides comprehensive training notes that you can refer to after the training to further ensure your knowledge retention. Login details for the ASCENT platform will be issued a few days before the training. To learn more about ASCENT, please visit their website.

ARKANCE, an Authorized Autodesk Training Center, delivers high-quality training for Autodesk software users. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive an official ARKANCE Certificate of Completion, demonstrating their commitment to ongoing professional development.

Additionally, participants are encouraged to register their attendance with Autodesk Education to receive a Certificate of Completion from Autodesk. To obtain this certificate, participants must follow the steps provided in the confirmation email sent after registration and submit a post-training feedback survey within 60 days of completing the course.

To join the course, participants must be confident in their use of AutoCAD Electrical. It is recommended that individuals have a thorough understanding of all topics covered in the Essentials course, along with at least six months of regular usage of AutoCAD Electrical on projects. This foundational knowledge ensures full engagement with the intermediate concepts and techniques presented in the course.

Our private training sessions are offered at a flat rate per course and accommodate up to eight participants. Delivered on request, these courses can be conducted virtually or on-site at your venue.

The training can follow a standard agenda or be customised to align with your team’s specific workflows, existing templates, and project requirements. Please note that in-person training will incur additional travel costs, and pricing may vary for customised curriculums.

Please contact us to discuss organising this training for your team.

Participants joining this course virtually will need:

• AutoCAD '22 or higher, or AutoCAD LT '22 or higher installed on their computer (required). We strongly recommend that participants join using the most recent version of the software. Please contact us if you need to purchase a software licence.
• The latest Zoom version installed on their computer (required).
• A stable internet connection with a minimum download speed of 10 Mbps (required).
• A secondary screen to follow instructions shared by the course instructor during training, along with a mouse for easy software navigation (recommended).
• A headset to ensure clear communication with the instructor, and preferably a microphone and webcam for interactive conversations (recommended).

Participants joining this course in person will need:

• AutoCAD '22 or higher, or AutoCAD LT '22 or higher installed on their computer (required). We strongly recommend that participants join using the most recent version of the software. Please contact us if you need to purchase a software licence.
• A large computer screen, along with a keyboard and mouse for easy software navigation (recommended).

Additionally, the training venue should be equipped with:

• A projector setup or a large screen enabling the instructor to connect their laptop, facilitating attendee visibility of the instructor's screen (required).