Tool Palettes

[Anonymous]

Dear Autocad Users,

I have been searching all of the Autodesk forums and watched all the Autodesk Academy videos about the use of tool palettes. I was wondering is there some sort of download center where i can download or find standard user made tool palettes, dynamic blocks and handy action macro's for electrical floorplans?

[TheCADnoob · Accepted solution]

Specific to electrical you can check out the vertical

https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad-electrical/overview

There is an app store as well

https://apps.autodesk.com

Its been my experience that the really useful ones are guarded though there are a lot of things you can find out there on the we piecemeal

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I did not know that there was a special appstore for Autocad, this helps alot. 

Do you know if the Autocad Electrical is made for circuit design or can it also be used for floorplans, like adding switches and wall sockets to a floorplan?

[TheCADnoob]

Your work flow realy determines whats the best tool for you.

In my experience (very limited with electrical mind you)  AutoCAD electrical is generally geared more towards circuits and panel side of things but as it is a vertical it can also handle general 2D floor plans just like AutoCAD. 

AutoCAD MEP is geared more toward building design/ conduit run clash detection kinda stuff. 

If you just need simple floor, vanilla CAD may be all you need. 

You can get free trials of MEP and electrical so it might be worth your time to download them and check them out to see if they have the tool sets you are looking for. 

[gotphish001 · Accepted solution]

Here are a few places you can get blocks. There's lot's more, but I had some bookmarked.

Lots of blocks in here and there's an electric sub category 

http://www.cadforum.cz/catalog_en/?cat=54   

I know there's detail drawings in this one, but I think it has blocks too.

http://www.arcat.com/details/cad_details.shtml

This one I don't think has free blocks. You buy like a set for electrical. If it includes everything you need spending $45 could go along way to speed up your workflow.

http://www.archidigm.com/classroom/index.htm