AutoCAD or AutoCAD Electrical? A Productivity Study.
The most frequently asked question I receive from the AutoCAD user community that are thinking about switching to AutoCAD Electrical is what type of productivity gains can you expect to receive when making the transition. From a user’s perspective I could personally give you countless examples of how much more productive you can be but that would take up too much time and space for a blog posting. Keeping this simple, AutoCAD Electrical software is built specifically to create and modify electrical controls designs. AutoCAD Electrical design software includes all the functionality of AutoCAD plus a complete set of electrical CAD features. Comprehensive symbol libraries and tools for automating electrical design and drafting tasks help to save hours of effort. Built-in reporting tools help eliminate errors and provide accurate information to manufacturing. All of these features plus the many others allow more time for design and engineering. Autodesk performed a very simple study that details the productivity gains that users can expect to see when moving from basic AutoCAD to AutoCAD Electrical. In the study Autodesk performed ten tasks and calculated the time it would take to perform each task inside of both AutoCAD and AutoCAD Electrical. Then they calculated the percentage of time saved for each task with a total at the end. Most AutoCAD users are surprised at the results but it comes as no surprise to the users that have standardized on AutoCAD Electrical for all of their electrical CAD design needs.
Below is a table of the results of the study. I encourage everyone to click on the link below the table. The link will take you to the white paper on Autodesk’s website which will enable you to view in detail how they were able to calculate and come up with the results for each specific category.
Below is a table of the results of the study. I encourage everyone to click on the link below the table. The link will take you to the white paper on Autodesk’s website which will enable you to view in detail how they were able to calculate and come up with the results for each specific category.
Link to white paper: http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/cad_electrical_productivity_study.pdf
My vote stands for AutoCAD Electrical. I think you can save more time using that software especially as a student of Electrical Training Courses, Time is Gold.
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