If you're an engineering student or a new electrical control designer trying to get up to speed on AutoCAD Electrical, you already know the problem: the software is powerful, but the learning curve can feel steep when you're teaching yourself from scattered tutorials and forum posts.
AutoCAD Electrical 2027 with Videos for Electrical Control Designers was written to fix exactly that. It's a complete, tutorial-based textbook that takes you from the basics all the way to building professional, industry-ready electrical control drawings — with 48 video tutorials included so you can watch a technique before you try it yourself.
Who This Book is For
This book is built for two kinds of readers:
- Engineering students who need a structured, classroom-friendly way to learn AutoCAD Electrical from scratch
- Practicing designers who are new to the software and need to get productive fast, without wading through dense reference manuals
Either way, you'll come away able to create schematic drawings, panel layouts, and PLC-based diagrams confidently and correctly.
What You'll Learn
The book covers the full toolkit a working electrical control designer actually uses:
- Schematic drawings and the Circuit Builder
- Panel drawings
- Parametric and non-parametric PLC modules
- Stand-alone PLC I/O points
- Ladder diagrams
- Point-to-point wiring diagrams
- Report generation
- Creating custom symbols
Rather than just listing commands, the book walks through why and when to use each tool, so the skills transfer directly to real projects.
What's New in the 2027 Edition
This edition isn't a reprint with a new cover — it's been updated with the workflows AutoCAD Electrical 2027 actually introduced:
- Expanded coverage of terminal strips and terminal plan reports
- A new section on the Autodesk Assistant
- Coverage of the ECLASS Data Import Utility
- A walkthrough for exporting terminal strips to manufacturer applications
If you've used an older edition or a different AutoCAD Electrical guide, these additions alone make the 2027 edition worth the upgrade.
Why This Book Works: The Tutorial-First Approach
A few things set this book apart from a typical software manual:
- 13 chapters and 2 full projects, organized in a logical, classroom-tested sequence
- 45+ step-by-step tutorials plus the two projects, so you're always building something real, not just reading about it
- 48 video tutorials that pair with the written tutorials — watch the technique, then do it yourself
- Chapter-opening summaries so you know exactly what you'll learn before you start
- Hundreds of illustrations to make every concept visually clear
- Notes and tips throughout, flagging the details that trip up beginners
- Self-evaluation tests, review questions, and exercises at the end of every chapter, so you can check your understanding before moving on
The Bottom Line
Whether you're a student building your CAD skill set or a designer who just got handed AutoCAD Electrical for the first time, this book is built to get you from "new to the software" to "producing professional electrical control drawings" — with video support at every step.
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