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AutoCAD Electrical 2014 for Electrical Control Designers textbook introduces the reader to AutoCAD Electrical, one of the world's leading applications designed specifically to create and modify electrical control systems. This textbook has been written to assist the engineering students and the practicing designers who are new to AutoCAD Electrical. Using this textbook, the readers can learn the application of basic tools required for creating professional electrical-control drawings with the help of AutoCAD Electrical. Keeping in view the varied requirement of the users, the textbook covers a wide range of features such as schematic drawings, panel drawings, parametric and nonparametric PLC modules, stand-alone PLC I/O points, ladder diagrams, point-to-point wiring diagrams, reports generation, creation of symbols, and so on.

Following are the additional features of this book:

• Detailed explanation of AutoCAD Electrical commands and tools
• More than 40 tutorials and one project based chapter with step-by-step
• explanation
• Emphasis on Why and How with explanation
• Tips and Notes throughout
• the textbook
• 864 pages with heavily-illustrated text
• Self-Evaluation tests and Exercises at the end of each chapter

Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to AutoCAD Electrical 2014
Chapter 2: Working with Projects and Drawings
Chapter 3: Working with Wires
Chapter 4: Creating Ladders
Chapter 5: Schematic Components
Chapter 6: Schematic Editing
Chapter 7: Connectors, Point-to-Point Wiring Diagrams, and Circuits
Chapter 8: Panel Layouts
Chapter 9: Schematic and Panel Reports
Chapter 10: PLC Modules
Chapter 11: Terminals
Chapter 12: Settings, Configurations, Templates, and Plotting
Chapter 13: Creating Symbols
Chapter 14: Projects
Index