Of course, eventually I want them to become familiar with the IEC symbols themselves.
I do the reverse of the above method for my American customers when I teach them how to use AutoCAD Electrical to design for International customers. I have them set their menu to ACE_IEC_MENU.DAT or ACE_IEC-60617_MENU.DAT, but I have them set the Schematic Library folder path to NFPA and NFPA/1- so the actual symbols inserted are from an American style library folder. When I teach outside of the U.S. I show my students how to design using American symbols when they aren't familiar with ANSI (American symbols) but need to provide 'American-looking' drawings to their customer. AutoCAD Electrical is very flexible because you can select from a menu you are familiar with and the software will insert the corresponding symbol from whichever library you have assigned. I have also included a screen capture that shows where you assign the library folder(s) and the menu you wish to use for your project. I will attach a screen capture of this folder. Substitute your user name for mine of course. DAT extension located at:Ĭ:\Users\Douglas McAlexander\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical 2018\R22.0\enu\Support The individual library folders inside the Libs folder contain the actual symbol files (a.k.a.
The Libs folder is where the library folders reside.
