Electra Benefits
No setup, simple drag and drop
We know Electrical engineers have heavy responsibilities, designing circuits that is safe and innovative while keeping cost low, in addition to testing and commissioning projects that have strict timelines. The last thing they have time for, is to attend training or reading a manual.
Electra is designed to work with drag and drop, no training and manuals necessary, especially easy to pick up again when the need arise, ensuring you get to do the important stuffs while Electra takes care of the rest.
New Autowiring that automagically wire symbols
Just drop your symbols next to another and Electra automagically wires them to the next sequential wire, all without manual intervention.
Nearly 3 times faster when compared to manual wiring with much less errors. Works for both JIC/NFPA and IEC60617, horizontal and vertical circuits, including for electrical, pneumatic and hydraulics.
Designed for minimal typing
Being electrical engineers ourselves, we wanted to create schematic circuits easier and faster, without tedious typing and manual errors. Therefore, we designed an electrical CAD software that reduces typing.
All symbols and wires are intelligently and automatically renamed, and even when typing is required, spin buttons are available on most dialogs for modifications using the mouse only, keeping it fast and speedy.
Automatic intelligent naming
One of the most repeated task during electrical drafting is the duplication of symbols and wires. When duplicated, Electra automatically and intelligently rename symbols and wires to the next available sequential number (eg: R1 to R2), saving an immense amount of time and avoiding errors.
If a symbol reference is modified (eg: R1 to C1), and then duplicated, Electra will intelligently use the new reference and rename duplicates accordingly (eg: C1 to C2). This means that you can rename your symbols and wires as you deem fit, and Electra will intelligently rename them, no complicated setup and configuration required.
Symbol and wire inheritance
If a symbol is assigned to a component, say an Omron relay, when duplicated, the symbol will continue to inherit the component, saving you a ton of time, without the need to assign components over and over again.
All this is designed to ensure you perform a task once and reuse, to save time and money, while reducing errors.
Super smart wires
Wires in Electra are super intelligent. When a wire is placed on another, they will automatically be connected, and assume the name of the connected wire.
When a wire name is modified, the changes will automatically be propagated to all connected wires, even over wire links and multiple pages.
Connection dots are automatically added or removed, based on connection types, without the need for user intervention, for faster schematics.
Auto straightening wires
Depending on how you connect wires, they will automatically get straightened when modified. This allow users to concentrate on creating safe and innovative electrical circuit designs, rather than drafting and formatting.
Easy to use wire links
Drop them, pair them, done.
Wire links allow you to connect a wire to another part of the page, or to another page. When connected, wire links automatically shows the wire name and location of the target link it is paired to.
Wires that are connected to wire links behave as if they are connected to normal wires, that is, wire name detection and propagation will continue to work, even over multiple pages.
Real time cross reference
Know exactly how many symbols and wires you have in your drawing, and their location with real time cross reference. Produce highly detailed electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic drawings quickly and easily.
Powerful circuit reuse
When drawing circuits, the most often used operation is copy and paste, and Electra will automatically rename all your symbols and wires accordingly, to ensure you get unparalleled productivity gains with huge savings in time and money.
Reusable prefab circuits
Create circuits once, and save them to be reused forever. Build up a collection of your commonly used circuits and never redraw them again. Share them with your team, so the productivity gains extend to your entire company.
Assigning Cables
Single core or multi core cables can be easily assigned to wires, with a simple right click on a wire or using the "Manage Cables" menu. Cable specifications are stored in a database so that they can be re-used over an over again without typing. Once assigned to a wire, the specifications are then stored in the drawing itself for portability, where a drawing can be easily shared without losing embedded cable information.
For multi core cables, changing cores is just a matter of dragging and dropping a wire to another core for fast and simple cable management.
Innovative CableTag symbol
Showing cable information is as easy as dropping a CableTag symbol onto a wire. Once dropped, the CableTag will automatically display cable information on any wire that it comes into contact with, without further actions from users. Additional information including brand, supplier, model, cores, pricing or other options are available by right clicking on the CableTag.
User friendly, drag and drop categories
Component specifications in Electra Cloud are organized by categories. For example, when selecting components for a relay symbol, users will be presented with multiple relays in the "Relay" category. Categories simplify component selection, and still offers the ability to select outside a category using search functions.
Organizing components and categories is super easy, simply drag and drop components to their categories and you're done. Components can appear in one or more categories for even more flexibility
Symbols with brains built in
Some symbols in Electra Cloud goes even further to help complete time consuming manual tasks. For example, the TerminalList symbol automatically list all terminals that have been placed in a drawing. TerminalBlock symbols automatically count and number all terminal listings when organized in a block.
The AutoLocation symbol automatically monitors schematic symbols and report their locations, even over multiple pages. The PLC symbol can be used to generate input or output points, whether digital or analog.
