Reason 5 – Surf on all component and terminal connections tied to a picked segment of a wire network – both “on page” and beyond.īelow is an example of a common wire starting at the left and jumping to two other drawings on the right. Surfer launches into a “Surf on ITEM number” mode. Reason 4 – Another new Surfer mode provided by SDS Tools include Surf on “item number” assignment. On the right is the optional filtered “pin” number mode added to AcadE by SDS Tools.

The example below shows normal AutoCAD Electrical Surf results on the left. Reason 3 – There are new Surfer modes included with SDS Tools: Surf on component “pin” number which works great for surfing on just a single I/O terminal pin number. Additional attribute information is pulled in from the symbols and appended to the display’s right-hand column: Reason 2 – Surfer display is much richer, enhanced with extra key data. Reason 1 – Surfing – The awkwardness in AutoCAD Electrical’s Surfer tool is gone! You are no longer required to save / close the existing drawing before surfing on to the next reference! Surfer, under SDS Tools, now operates smoothly and seamlessly as if in a normal AutoCAD “multi-document” mode instead of the old technology single document mode. Here are 58 reasons to consider this add-on - fully compatible with AutoCAD Electrical 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and beyond. Hello to many things you wish Autodesk would have included or fixed in AutoCAD Electrical by now! But enhanced with Spatial Business Systems Substation Design Suite™ of powerful, purpose-built tools riding on top of AcadE, it becomes even better! Welcome to Spatial Business System’s SDS Tools for electrical controls design (intro video here). The Autodesk® AutoCAD® Electrical software (AcadE) is great for plant, machine, and substation electrical controls design. If you like AcadE, you’ll really like this.

( Note: the following is one of the things I’ve been deeply involved with over the last ten years. = View blog posting PDF in Acrobat (much clearer screenshots) Over 58 Ways To Enhance AutoCAD Electrical To Provide Better Faster Smoother Electrical Controls Design =

Autocad electrical drawing