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Electrical 2017 Creating a new project workflow improvement, consistency

Electrical 2017 Creating a new project workflow improvement, consistency

I am a recent user of AutoCAD electrical 2017. I come from long term use of Autodesk Inventor.

 

In going through tutorials I had a real time creating a new project. The buttons were grayed out and no tool tips come up when they are grayed out not helping the situation with information. I experimented around, searched the web, looked at the help to no avail.

 

I finally figured out you have to open a drawing before you can create a project. It seems to me to be a bit backward to the typical management of a project.  Define the project, then put all the files for that project within it.

 

As a  minimum, the help should clearly delineate what is required to create a project and the ideology that goes along with it.

 

Likely I have missed a great document or link somewhere that will make this very clear, but at this point its all a bit foggy.

 

I believe in the myth of the users.

 

 

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Anonymous
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There are many tools not available when starting up AutoCAD setting STARTUP system variable to 0 will open a blank drawing file and all the tools become available.

 

This does not improve your suggested workflow but ADDING some AutoCAD Electrical Project Functions to the Start TAB WOULD! 

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