ELECDES

Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Design software by SCADA Systems Ltd.

Elecdes is the award winning design software for Electrical Engineering drawing creation, data and design analysis. Elecdes is a collection of design tools to improve your productivity. Elecdes is a true multi-user, multi-referencing, multi-editing, project and database driven designer. Elecdes can check and cross reference against all drawings defined in a project whilst separate editing sessions are in progress. The performance limits are defined by the system workstations in place and the number of licensed Elecdes packages in use.

Getting Started

Preparing to use Elecdes

A Guide to Creating an Electrical Drawing

How To

Insert symbols

• Insert components directly from the catalog

• Insert parts of an existing component

• Insert components from a Bill of Materials

• Insert symbols onto multiple lines in one operation

• Insert an array of symbols

• Select a component from the on-line tag check list

• Insert a Multi-Terminal Device symbol

• Align an instrument tag symbol with a terminal

• Connect to equipment that is not in the project

• Insert a NC contact when the catalog specifies NO

• Insert a block that is already used in the drawing

• Repeat a recent icon menu insertion

• Repeat the last symbol insertion

• Insert an Assembly, a pre-made sub-circuit

Draw 2D General Arrangements

• Place 2D Panel Symbols

• Place a 2D Terminal strip

• Place 2D GA Symbols for existing components

Draw conductors for a circuit

• Show that conductors are connected

• Show wire jumps where lines cross

• Name conductors in a drawing

• Automatically name wires in a drawing

Add GLANDS and INSULATION information to the cables in single line diagrams

Add and remove termination blocks and pick wire order (CONX)

Automatic Drawing Functions

• Draw ladder for control circuits

• Draw a 3 phase circuit

• Draw a 3 phase star point

• Draw a 2 line instrument loop circuit

• Draw a transformer link to a 3-phase bus

• Insert a transformer between ladder circuits

• Construct a PLC I/O Card

• Draw a push button start-stop control circuit

• Draw a cable as a single line

Schematic Editing

• Swap an existing component in a circuit

• Copy, move or delete a symbol

• Move a circuit

• Copy a Circuit and rename symbols

• Copy and Paste a circuit and rename symbols

• Update the attribute data for components

• Mark a symbol as duplicated

• Quickly increment the name of a component

• Hide or show an attribute of a symbol

• Display the tagname over two lines of text

Navigate to Related Components

Create a device with a custom terminal layout

Create an Assembly, a sub-circuit that you can later insert

Represent multi-tiered terminals in drawings

Insert a border or title block

Draw a dashed box

Construct a database table on a drawing

Cross-reference coils, contacts and other symbols

• Hide cross-reference symbols and text

• Delete cross-reference symbols and text

• Insert a header for a cross-reference table

• Use a direct reference in your drawings

• Set the first column or row reference on a sheet

• Change the Scale of References Generated for a Drawing

• Cross-reference a drawing with rung numbers (Zones)

• Place an Array of Zones Sized by Picking with the Mouse

• Place an Array of Zones with Specified Sizes

• View arbitrary cross-referencing zones

• Edit arbitrary cross-referencing zones

• Import a materials / reference table on to a drawing

• Insert a Reference Drawings Table

Mark a drawing as a Single Line Diagram

Make a new catalog file

Edit a catalog file

Change configurable preferences for Elecdes

Configure the naming of components

Edit a prototype drawing for Protogen

Create a wiring diagram or terminal strip

Run Ebase, the Project and Reporting module

Add the current drawing to the current project

Open the current project’s “<prj> EDS Reports.mdb” database

References

Elecdes Menus

Elecdes Symbols

Elecdes Drawing Types

• Electrical Schematics

• Single Line Diagrams

• Instrument Loop Diagrams

Elecdes Drawing Functions

Elecdes coil and contact Cross Referencing

Contents of an Elecdes drawing

Creating a new drawing file

Drawing Standards

Recommended Directory Structures

Project Set-up

FelixCAD information for AutoCAD familiar users

Customisation