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To maximize productivity, we designed an Electrical CAD software that requires minimal typing. Being engineers ourselves, we would rather produce electrical designs faster and safer, but still eliminate manual typing errors.

Symbol and wires in Electra are intelligently and automatically renamed, so that users perform minimal typing. Even when typing is required, spin buttons and double clicking are available on most dialog boxes for modifications using the mouse only.

»What is designed for minimal typing?

Wires in Electra are intelligent and super smart.

If they have no name, they will be shown in red. If they are connected to another wire, they will automatically assume the name of whatever wire it is connected to. When the wire it's connected to is changed, it will automatically update it's own name to reflect the changes.

When one wire is connected to another, connection points are automatically added and wires are automatically connected. When a wire is moved away, these connection points are automatically deleted. When 2 wires are connected, a black dot is automatically displayed to denote a connection.

»What are Super Smart Wires?

»How wire propagations works in Electra (Version 2.0.7)?

To assign a wire to a cable, right click on the wire, or use the menu "Manage Cables", be it a single core or multi-core cables. Cable specifications are stored in a cable database so that they can be re-used over and over again without typing.

Once assigned to a wire, cable specifications are then stored onto the drawing itself for portability, so that drawings can be easily shared, with embedded cable information. If multi-core cables are used, cable cores gets automatically assigned to wires, and changing cores is simply a matter of dragging and dropping the wire to another core.

Showing cable information in a drawing is as easy as dropping the CableTag shape onto a wire. Once dropped, the CableTag shape 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 options are available by right clicking on the CableTag shape.