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Smap3D Electrical is an advanced and innovative ECAD software for electrical engineering, automation, installation, pneumatics and hydraulics. The software makes drawing your electrical circuit diagrams very easy with powerful functions and automatisms and you always have an overview of your electrical designs.
Smap3D Electrical was developed with the basic concept of giving you the freedom to concentrate on the electrical design while the program takes the practical side.
In addition to the basic drawing functions, Smap3D Electrical offers you a comprehensive set of functions and automatisms specifically designed for electrical projects. International standards for electrical design drawings can be easily supported as an integral part of the software.
Click on the description to get a detailed overview of the most important features of Smap3D Electrical.
In addition to the general functions, you will automatically find updated references between electrical symbols for the same component, automatic PLC functions, automatic line drawing (router), intelligent renaming of components when copying, support of assembly correct drawings and overview plans, design verification, control of colour codes for cable conductors, automatic replacement of symbols, automatic cable numbering, automatic generation of graphic terminal, cable and connection diagrams as well as automatic updating of project and page information.
A project file can contain an unlimited number of pages, with each page containing up to 255 layers.
The program provides you with the standardized IEC symbols for automation, installation, hydraulics/pneumatics and flow diagrams. You will also find symbols for PLCs, sensors and transmitters, intelligent building installations, computers and telecommunications, alarm systems and symbols for floor plans. Of course, you can also create and manage your own symbols.
In Smap3D Electrical you can create your own component databases. As an added benefit, several leading component manufacturers have provided their own component databases.
In addition to general component information - such as part number, description, component supplier, and pricing - these databases contain both electrical and mechanical symbols for each component.
With these databases, you can easily and securely create diagrams, mechanical drawings and lists.
You will also receive your own database program together with the program. Smap3D Electrical can use Access databases directly and is also open for other database systems that support MDAC or ODBC. So you can use all common database systems in connection with Smap3D Electrical - e.g. MS-SQL and Oracle. This allows the databases to become an integrated part of the company's database system.
In Smap3D Electrical you can create your own parts lists (BOM), component lists, terminal lists, PLC lists, cable lists, labels, connection lists and tables of contents.
These lists are automatically updated by the program. Overview drawings can also be part of the projects.
The lists can be created both as pages in the projects and as user-defined files, which can be easily imported into other systems - for example as purchase order files.
You can easily create part drawings with article data for each individual symbol in the signature. You can then drag the part drawings directly into each of your projects. When you drag a part drawing into a project, you can also select which set of model data you want to append to the symbols in the part drawing. This is called module- and model-based insertion and drawing. Based on these part drawings, you can automatically generate projects with thousands of pages.
In Smap3D Electrical, you can automatically assign reference designations at project, page, area, and symbol levels.
When a symbol is placed on a page or in an area with reference designations, the symbol automatically receives the repeat designations of the page or area (IEC 61346). You can then have lists filled out automatically according to the reference designations used. If you change a reference designation, the program can change this reference designation accordingly in the entire project.
You can further structure your projects by using automation functions to create chapters. Tables of contents and lists can be created for each chapter or for the entire project. IEC standards, which are intelligently supported in all program parts, help to structure the documentation as easily as possible. You will automatically follow the current electrical standards without noticing them.
Import and export of DWG/DXF files are supported. Of course, only the objects known in both programs are exchanged. Documents from e.g. Word or Excel can be inserted directly into the project pages via OLE. If, for example, you insert an AutoCAD document, you can draw on the inserted document in the software.
You can create an interface to external PLC tools. When importing from these PLC tools, the imported PLC data is corrected directly in the diagrams (of course under restrictive control).
In Smap3D Electrical this is referred to as "Module and Model Based Drag'n Draw". This function allows you to drag part drawings from a window in the right screen area into the project and Automation places the selected part drawing on the active project page. At the same time, the symbols in the part drawing are assigned part data, depending on which model of the part drawing you select. In addition, the part drawing is automatically connected to the drawn diagram - e.g. with the electrical potentials on the page - and the symbols used are intelligently named by the program.
The revolutionary aspect is that you can now create a complete electrical documentation by simply dragging all desired documentation parts/objects directly into the project and the program will draw them for you. Practically, you hardly need to draw anymore. And it's not just part drawings that you can drag into the active project. You can also drag entire pages into the project, such as chapter fronts, tables of contents, all types of lists and complete diagram pages. You can also drag other projects into the project.
You can start a new project by dragging a project template into the software. This project can contain the project pages you always need when starting a project, such as tables of contents, chapter fronts, schematic pages and selected list pages. If you later need additional diagram pages with already inserted electrical potentials, drag them into the project as well. Then drag the desired part drawings directly to the project pages, where they are e.g. connected to the electrical potentials on the page, and the symbols are intelligently renamed.
Since the part drawings are linked to article data, you simply update the project lists automatically and the documentation is now complete. All lists are now filled with item data, etc., and you can send the purchase requisitions to the component suppliers. This allows you to quickly get an overview of the total costs of the components during the tendering phase of a project, as these can be calculated automatically in the lists.
The first requirement is, of course, a library with the set of partial drawings that your company uses in its electrical documentation projects.
After you have drawn the drawings once and then stored them in the library, you can then use them in all future projects linked to various model data. This handling of partial drawings and the possibility to store them intelligently in the library is a central development point in the software.
In addition, it is of course very easy to copy partial diagrams from existing projects.
At present, 48 component manufacturers (ABB, AEG, Bosch, Brodersen, Danfoss, Dehn, Hager, Mitsubishi, Moeller, Phoenix, Contact, Siemens and many more) have created component databases for Smap3D Electrical which contain component data as well as electrical and mechanical symbols for all components in the databases. In addition, Siemens and Mitsubishi have created selected part drawings including attached part data that you can drag directly into your diagrams.
