Boost productivity by up to 95% with electrical design features that help you create, modify, and document electrical controls systems.

With the Electrical toolset, you can:

• Access a library of 65,000+ intelligent electrical symbols
• Automate numbering of wires and generation of component tags
• Generate and update multiple customized reports automatically

Quality improvements

• Project Task List: Visibility settings of the installation or location details are now honored in the IEC workflows.
• Trim Wire: The wire number now clears when the associated wire is trimmed.
• Panel Terminals: Rating values persist in panel terminals when assigned from the TextValue field of the catalog database.
• Command Line: Accelerator keys now work for AEWIRE and AECABLEMARKER when clicking from the command line.
• Components: The CNT value is now synchronized between schematic and panel components.
• System Variable: The value that's set in FILEDIA no longer changes to 0 automatically.
• General: AutoCAD Electrical now starts without an error after the localized version of Microsoft Office is updated.

Additional enhancements

• Insert Block: The Block Redefine dialog box provides an option to rename a block when the specified block name already exists in the drawing.
• Options Dialog Box: A new task dialog prompts you to either save or discard the changes made when you attempt to close or cancel the Options dialog box.
• Isolation Mode: The object selection is now maintained when you exit isolation mode.
• New Drawing: Hovering over the New drop-down on the Start tab, displays a tooltip with the name of the drawing template file that will be used.
• Customer Error Reporting (CER): Your email address is now automatically filled in when an error report is generated.
• Multi-core Background Publishing: The publish option "Include Hyperlinks" is now supported when publishing a Multi-sheet PDF file using background publishing.