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External Text Editor for AutoCAD

John Goodwin writes, "For many years I have used a text editor in AutoCAD from Premiere Designs called MARED. It is a lisp based text editor which allows picking and windowing idividual non-multiline text entities and editing them in a free form editor. It has always been difficult to reconfigure Autocad to accomodate this text editor as sucessive versions of AutoCAD have been released. I have never understood why AutoCAD has never incorporated a good free form text editor in their software.

"Anyway that being said, what is out there that you would recommend?"

Electrical Software for MicroStation

Gulam Gouse Khan asks, "We are electrical engineering based department and we are using only MciroStation as a tool. We need such a software which can automatically create cross reference drawings, cable reports, BOQ, and having electrical engineering support. At the same time it should be compatible with MicroStation. Our main activities:
1. Designing and manufacturing protection systems (panels), control systems (panels)
2. We use lot of electrical components like different types of relays, breakers terminal blocks, cables etc. in our design
3. We create AC, DC, WIRING & TERMINAL drawings. Which required lot of cross referencing data.
4. We create BOQ, LIST OF COMPONENTS etc."

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Comments

[Mike Lambert]

Electrical design and documentation requirements vary significantly across industries and regions. While not fully understanding the details of the requirements listed or what industry they apply to, we believe we have several products that may satisfy many, if not all, of the requirements outlined. These are:

MicroStation Schematics
This is an extension to MicroStation which allows users to define their own schematic drawing capability, incorporating their own standards, symbology, etc. It will infer intelligence from the created drawings to perform basic data extraction and export for bills of materials, connectivity, etc.

Bentley Instrumentation & Wiring
For controls based electrical needs Instrumentation and Wiring offers users PLC Connection diagram, Wiring diagram, Motor Schematic, and Single Line diagram generation. The Layout Designer also includes a new feature, Layout Assemblies. This allows users to connect the entire control assembly together including Motors and Equipment to MCC buckets and control panels. This can then be saved as an assembly and re-applied allowing the user to visually create wiring rules for specific motor and equipment connection schemes.

EED Power
This is a MicroStation based design solution to create protection & control schematic diagrams including ac, dc, supervisory, and other common types of diagrams for power distribution systems. Electrical panel layout and wiring diagram design capabilities are also included to create panel elevations, graphical wiring diagrams, wiring connection lists, cable schedules, BOMs, panel legends, component schedules, and other common deliverables. Components such as relays and switches are automatically cross referenced in the diagrams, and rule checks ensure design quality and consistency across the project. ANSI/IEEE, IEC, and DIN standards are supported.

For additional information and to analyze the detailed requirements, I'd be happy to put your reader in touch with the appropriate people at Bentley.

[SENAKA]

I am civil enginear & architecture I want good astimatin & costing software
pl send domo vertion after I will buing that one