schematic symbols list

[a.chinellato]

It Would be useful allow the creation of a table  with the schematic symbols and its description used in the project. This table is normally placed on the second page of the project.

 

[mathalekar]

Hello

When you say symbol & description, the list can go grow large depending on the size of the project with many duplications. Description of the symbol mean type of symbol like PB NO, PB NC etc or actual functional description you mean to say ?

Regards,

AutoCAD Electrical Team

[Icemanau]

I think it's more of a legend of what each symbol means going by what the attached image in the original entry shows. With the continually evolving standards, symbols can change rapidly at times and what's valid today may not be valid in 10 years time.

I have come across older Engineers and Managers that are used to one style of symbols and demand everything be drawn using those symbols, however, they are no longer used elsewhere. For example, I used to work for a manager who wanted all contacts shown as two parrallel lines for NO and NC had a diagonal line across them for NC. This is an extremely old standard in Australia and was moved away from due to their similarity to the symbol for capacitors.

What I believe the post is requesting is a function to add a dumb block of each TYPE of parent symbol used in a project to a table with a short description of what the block shows. This will allow those used to different standards to understand the drawing they are looking at.

For example, you might have 10 different parent pushbuttons in a schematic, but the table would only insert 1 or 2 (NO/NC) dumb block/s with the one entry stating that the symbol is indication of a pushbutton.

Regards Brad

[ccad2509]

This is again when ACADE tries to play catch up

Its one of those standard features in other CAE programmes that have existed for a number of years but ACADE wants to re-invent the wheel

try checking out what the compition does rather then sit there and discussing all the options before you decide to do something completly different

[darrell.l.gregg]

In my company we do this manually for our legend page.

We try to inform the document users what all the peices of text in the various places are.

A tool that would help us do this for all the symbols in a project could be handy.

[t_chaws]

Hi, 

We have noted your idea and will be looking into it for our future releases!

Thank you. Keep posting new ideas!

Best Regards, 
AutoCAD Electrical Team

[brent]

Would love to see this feature added in for future relases. 

[yuvaraj_jaganathan]

This idea is currently under review.

Thanks,

Raj

[jaya_priya_ramasamy]

Hi all,

One of the top voted ideas in the AutoCAD Electrical Idea station is now available in AutoCAD Electrical 2024. With this feature, the user will be able to create a schematic symbol table from schematic reports.

The schematic report lists the symbols used in the project along with its description in a table. You can also surf through a particular symbol that is used in various locations of the project.

There is an option to insert the symbol list in text table format.

Refer to the below help topic for step by step procedure:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACAD_E/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-4F00F5E8-9CDA-48D1-B28C-31714F6D4ACE

Thanks,

Jaya Priya Ramasamy

[rhesusminus]

Now we're just missing the option to show the symbols AND the tag names in the same table!