i have just started using AutoCAD2012 Electrical as the company i work for are trying to reduce time in producing electrical circuits and most of all are trying to reduce time in creating cable schedules by importing certain data in to Autodesk applications to create (if possibly) cable schedules.

 

I have used Cad applications for a few years but as i mentioned before am quite new to AutoCAD2012 electrical. I have just finished the Basic online tutorial for AutoCAD 2010 electrical and found it very interesting. The fact that you can determine were a cable comes from and goes to a cetain block which is a component of some kind and that on the block you can specify wire connections for that device, therefore knowing how many cores are used, where the cores come from and go to i would have thought it was possible to create a cable schedule? I.e if i was to create a table in any format, let's say for example excel, and my sub headings match the block names of the devices my cable was coming from and going to and then some sort of cable schedule could be produced. Is this possible at all? or is there something similar out there that can do this?

 

The reason why i ask is that before i start to create any drawings our software engineer creates a I/O Input and Output Schedule database which is made up of variuos columns with lots of information such as , terminal numbers, PLC used, PLC input and output addresses, device names, panel numbers, etc. therefore i was hoping that i could get them to at columns to suite AutoCAD 2012 electrical and then import this data in to AutoCAD and then produce a cable schedule and then from that i create the drawing using the cables defined.

 

 

Thanls for all your help

Adrian.