I have done many, many electrical designs using AutoCAD LT. The largest project by size was a 17,000 seat 300,000 m2 stadium where I did all the onsite electrical working drawings, as-builts, new panel schedules, and to-from conduit and cable schedules, including over 800 feeders for electrical, fire, intercom, sound, data, telecom, etc. (The engineered drawings were a mess, with a great disparity between "to" and "from" feeder runs.) I would work with my new conduit and cable schedules, compare against the engineered drawings, correct the conduit size, wire size/count, if necessary, analyze the structural plans, find the best path, and draw it for the electricians. By the time I was done, I had pretty much redrawn all the electrical systems and many of the branch circuits. The finished AutoCAD LT product is identical to the output from the full version of AutoCAD using the Electrical tools. In LT there is no automation. There are no smart tools. There is no LISP. In LT, the process is definitely slower, but for the price, you can't beat it. If I had enough electrical design work, I would definitely use the "big guns," but for doing occasional electrical designs, I'm okay with the extra effort. Using LT, you have to pay attention and make sure you manually update all the different pieces of the project when you make changes. This is where the Electrical tools shine.
