Improved electrical schematic software

WSCAD is the worlds leading dedicated Electrical Schematic CAD software, produced in eleven languages, with 25,000 users, at 20,000 sites in 30 countries.

WSCAD is the worlds leading dedicated Electrical Schematic CAD software, produced in eleven languages, with 25,000 users, at 20,000 sites in 30 countries.

WSCAD 4.1 was recently released with many new and improved features.

The Basic Module (?350) features: full screen mode (text menus are hidden if this mode is selected); digitiser tablet support; bitmap import (for small company logos etc); library size now limited only by memory size; an increased number of graphic elements per symbol; text alignment left, right, centre, above, below; optimised font output for improved zooming; line width configurable on printout; and the connection line colour can now vary.

The Automatic Module (?850) includes: terminal browser; material list with graphical form; project contents list with graphical form; label layouts can be set up and stored; and label output for various font systems.

The Mega Module (?1750) now includes: a cabinet layout manager, with library for component shapes; the cable manager; a foreign language translator; materials browser; contactor browser; PLC editor; optimised contactor manager, with more flexible placement of contacts; more choices of automatic wire numbering methods; and a Microsoft Access compatible database.

The new features of major interest are the Cabinet Layout Manager - in layout mode, WSCAD scans the drawing and lists all components.

These appear in a dialog.

Simply click on a name and move the cursor into the drawing window, and the outline, or a square or circle representing the component appears on the cursor.

As the user places the component, it disappears from the list - a very quick and easy way to lay out the panel.

WSCAD will calculate the panel area, and equispace components too.

With the new Contactor Manager, contacts placed with a single click can now be allocated to coils later, using the Contactor Browser.

The Cable Manager enables the user to allocate cable colour schemes and keep track of cable conductors very easily.

The browsers for Contactors, Terminals, Materials, Cables and PLC elements give an instant overview of the whole project, and enable assignment of numbering, and cross referencing to be done more flexibly and easily.

Automatically translates diagrams into up to three foreign languages using WSCAD's built in lexicon.

The new wire numbering options cover continuous numbering, numbering starting anew on each page, prefixes, fixed length (ie 003, 004 etc) and choice of separators.

Users of the Mega module will have a new improved version of WSVIEW, the separate viewing and printing program for WSCAD drawings.

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