What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2016 - Subscription Advantage Pack

These updates are available to subscription customers. Many of these enhancements are based on ideas from the AutoCAD Electrical IdeaStation.

AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor Combined Bill of Material Report

If your project is linked to an Inventor assembly as part of an electromechanical project, you can generate a combined Bill of Material report. An option to include the Inventor parts is now available when you generate a Panel Bill of Material report.

With this option, any electrical parts on your Inventor assembly are included in the report. The Source column in the report indicates if the component is from AutoCAD Electrical, Inventor, or linked and represented in both.

Link Components in the Location View Tab

When you work in an electromechanical project, you can now link the AutoCAD Electrical component to the Inventor part right on the Location View tab of Project Manager.

On the Location View tab, right-click either the AutoCAD Electrical component or Inventor part in the tree and click Assign to Existing in Component Tree.

Find and select the other representation in the tree. In this example, since I started with the AutoCAD Electrical component, I select the Inventor pushbutton.

The components are now linked, but there are some differences.

You can resolve these differences on the Details pane in the Location View tab.

Item Number Balloon Update

If you change your drawing's balloon setup in the Panel Drawing Configuration, you now can update balloons on the active drawing.

After you OK, each balloon on the active drawing updates to match the balloon setup.

Ignore Errors in Electrical Audit

Once you have determined an error is not something that you need to fix, you can set the error's status to Ignored.

Ignored errors are indicated in the Status column.

Once you have marked the errors you want to ignore, you can hide those errors.

The error status is remembered each time you run the audit and across sessions of AutoCAD Electrical.

Ignored errors are included in the output text file when you export, even if they are hidden in the dialog. If an error has been marked as ignored, it is indicated in the Status column in the text file.

Miscellaneous Enhancements