Do you work collaboratively or independently in AutoCAD Electrical software? If you have more than one user at your company creating drawings with AutoCAD Electrical, this class helps you understand all the ways you can reference common, shared files effectively. The class covers how to install, configure, and organize those files so that drawings easily follow established standards and appear consistent from project to project and user to user. The class digs into some key ways AutoCAD Electrical promotes standardization and shows you an effective way to implement AutoCAD Electrical that allows users to work productively and consistently from a common set of files.

Do you want to see what's new in the 2016 release? Join us in a demonstration and discussion about the new tools and features.

Do you want to ensure the physical version of your electrical design has enough space in the mechanical layout? Are you tired of discovering too-tight bend radii during the first prototype build? Are you interested in keeping your mechanical and electrical designs in sync? Are you skeptical that any of this really works in a real-world environment? Attend this class to learn about all of this from real-life examples as they’ve been accomplished by your peers around the world. And learn why AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software are better combined together—just like chocolate and peanut butter.

In this class, you learn to create standard (plates) circuits in AutoCAD Electrical software for substations. We cover how to use options in AutoCAD Electrical to insert blocks of standards to complete substation design in a quick, standard, and accurate way. We demonstrate the linking of parts in an assembled circuit, how to add options in a timely manner, and complete your design using all the tools that AutoCAD Electrical has to offer.

Are you ready?...Set?...Let's GO! This is a fast-paced class designed to keep you on your toes with rapid-fire tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your time in AutoCAD Electrical software. Hold on tight, it’s going to be a wild ride!

Want to ensure that the physical version of your electrical design has enough space in the mechanical layout? Tired of discovering too-tight bend radii during the first prototype build? Interested in keeping your mechanical and electrical designs in sync? Skeptical that any of this really works in a real-world environment? Attend this class to learn about all of this from real-life examples of projects done by your peers from around the world. And learn why AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software are better together—just like chocolate and peanut butter.

Have you ever wanted to utilize the 3D power of Inventor software with the intelligence of AutoCAD Electrical software for substation protection and control panel layouts? Tracing connections from the panel in the control house to the cable tray and then out to the equipment in the yard can be a very tedious process when you don’t have really good visualization tools. With AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software integration, users now have the ability to produce the panel layout in the substation control house in 3D.

In this roundtable session we will discuss how electrical designs are transitioning into the Digital Prototyping world using AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software. What is required for a smooth transition? What functionality is required? What makes 2D-to-3D workflows valuable? What types are simulation are available? How valuable is simulation? Come and discuss these topics and how Product Design Suite software can help you and your peers.

In this presentation we will discuss how to create and store standard parts (devices) into a library and how to build and store standard configurations of those parts into a catalog of controlled circuits. We will also detail various methods for developing a standard workflow, and we'll look at how to hone in on the most effective methodology using AutoCAD Electrical software. We will give consideration to the incorporation of existing (brownfield) projects, and we will demonstrate how to produce various drawing sets once rendering is complete. You will also learn how to extract a bill of materials from AutoCAD Electrical software and convert it into a standard format ready for exportation into a material ordering system. We will place emphasis on a step-by-step presentation approach, and we will allot time for questions and answers so that audiences will find the presentation useful, regardless of experience with AutoCAD Electrical software.

Tired of clicking through the same paths several times a day just to get to default directories? Do you want to help yourself and others store files in the proper directories? This class is for you. We discuss the WD.ENV and WD_M files used to initiate the AutoCAD Electrical software environment and provide default paths for various commands. We also touch on templates and shared environments.

Come and see what's new in AutoCAD software.

In this class you will hear firsthand from one of our customers, Parker Hannifin Corporation, regarding how the firm deployed Vault software from a small group of 30 users to what is now over 1500 active users. You will also learn how the firm is using Autodesk PLM 360 software to manage the other processes that support engineering, quality, costing, quoting, and supplier management, and you will see how this enables the firm to use cloud-based PLM collaboration to extend the product data management productivity and increase the time to market of products and services.

You now have the responsibility to manage CAD within your department and/or organization, but your job title does not include CAD manager. You do not or cannot dedicate your time full time to this task. So how do you do this? We will use my transition from reseller to mining equipment manufacturer in an examination of how to get buy-in from management, how to get participation by the users (and your peers), where to start, and how to proceed. Let us talk standards, processes, procedures, training, CAD, management, and continual leadership.

This class is designed to assist you in building a new workflow to utilize Vault software for managing company standards within your organization. It will cover how to set up custom file categories, file lifecycles, user groups to support an innovative way of managing company standards within Vault, along with tracking any changes. We will discuss how to have AutoCAD software, Revit software, or Inventor software to look at the new working folders for updates to standards and content. Finally, we will learn how to automate deploying these changes to all users so they will always have the latest and greatest content and standards as soon as they become available.

This session will explore the steps that Central Arizona Project took to successfully implement a sophisticated Vault Professional environment. We will look at the lessons learned along their journey, and how they designed their system to manage full document lifecycle workflows that began with the end state in mind. After 27 years of trying to electronically manage dynamically changing Utility Record tiff images and CADD documents, Central Arizona Project embarked on a technically disruptive journey to challenge the status quo, and transition away from how they’ve traditionally conducted their engineering business. The end result is a collaborative working environment that continuously increases product quality and creates sustainable project efficiencies with its use of Vault Professional software.

Modern substation control systems use many intelligent devices that often have multiple communications paths to be managed. Do your protection and control engineers design this or do you have a dedicated telecom team? What software is used for that design? How are your workflows coordinated? Join us and discuss these and more topics related to the use of telecommunications circuits within (and between) electrical substations.

If you've been wondering how to put together a dream team to connect your electrical and mechanical designs and have those connections properly maintained with data management, then this is the class for you. Not only will you learn the electro-mechanical workflow between AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software, but you will also learn how that workflow ties into Vault software.

Autodesk Inventor and Autocad Electrical are powerful products of electromechanic design. The data in these two software can be transfered to each other bidirectionaly. We can manage the data of Electromechanic design via Autodesk Vault. We can create a bom with objects drawn in Autocad Electrical and Inventor on Autodesk Vault. We can map the Properties of our Autocad Electrical project to Vault Items

What are your favorite features in AutoCAD software? These are a few of my favorite things. Over the years of teaching AutoCAD software I've built an extensive list of my favorite features and tips. We'll explore features from the beginning of AutoCAD software up to AutoCAD 2015 software. This session is all about me sharing my love and passion for AutoCAD software with you.

In this class we will cover the essentials of data backup and restoration of critical design information, and we'll differentiate between normal backup strategies and archival technologies and methods. We will also discuss data retention policies and requirements. We will explore several different technologies, both local and remote, for backing up mission-critical data, and we will discuss the necessity of archival storage and we'll explore the appropriate media to meet data-retentions requirements. The class will also cover disaster recovery planning and techniques to maintain business continuation and data security in extreme circumstances, from fires, to natural disasters, to zombie apocalypses.