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Features and Benefits.
Real Time Cross Reference and Locations.
Electra comes with sorted, real time cross reference information to help you produce error free electrical schematic diagrams. Know exactly how many contacts you have assigned to a relay and where you have placed them, just by right clicking on a symbol. Find out all about wire names and it's location by right clicking on a wire.
Unsure of which is which? No problem, click on a location in the Reference or Wire Name dialog box, and Electra will automatically jump to the target page and highlight the selecting symbol for your viewing pleasure.
See Also »Highly visible cross reference information.
»Viewable Cross References for Symbols and Wires.
Benefits: Information is power. Easily produce highly detailed, accurate drawings quickly. Accurate drawings enables smooth communications with panel fabricators, customers and on-site engineers, which can lead to substantial time and money savings.
Awesome AutoLocation Shape. pro 
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Drop an AutoLocation shape, right click, select a reference and you're done. Instant, automatic, in-drawing cross reference at your finger tips.
AutoLocation shapes automatically monitors all symbols (for the selected reference) that you place on your electrical CAD drawing, and automatically displays symbol types together with it's location.
When you delete a symbol, the AutoLocation shape automatically deletes it. When you move a symbol to a new location, the new location gets automatically updated too.
»How to use the AutoLocation shape?
Benefits: Drastic increase in productivity, cleaner, faster and better documentation for your electrical schematic drawings.
Flexible PLC Shape.
Rather than clogging up your hard drive with thousands of PLC modules from different manufacturers, we created a single PLC shape that is far more flexible.
Whether it's an analog, input or output module, the PLC shape helps you generate your module in an instant. Provide a starting point and Electra will generate the rest of the PLC points. Users can choose to manually edit PLC labels and have Electra automatically generate the required PLC module after editing.
»How to use the PLC module shape?
»How to use the PLC module as a symbol generator.
Benefits: A single, easy to find and easy use PLC module that just works.
Smart Connector Shape.
The new smart and flexible Connector symbol in Electra can be easily rotated and flipped by just a right click. Orient the Connector, right click on it and generate pin names without much typing. It's that simple.
See Also »Introducing Flexible Connectors.
»How to use the Connector Shapes.
Benefits: Easy to use, flexible connector symbol that will generate any amount of pin names and labels quickly.
- Why Microsoft Visio?
- Designed for Minimal Typing.
- Intelligent Naming and Inheritance.
- Super Smart Wires.
- Effortless Wire Links.
- Real Time Cross Reference and Locations.
- Awesome AutoLocation Shape.
- Flexible PLC Shape.
- Smart Connector Shape.
- Powerful Circuit Re-Use.
- Amazing Prefab Circuits.
- Assigning Cables and Cores.
- Innovative CableTag Shape.
- Automatic Page Prefix.
- Generate, Count and Number Terminals.
- Generating Panel Layouts.
- Importing Autocad Drawings and Images.
- Extensive Report Generation.
- Exporting Reports to Excel.
- Importing Reports from Excel.
- Improved LadderZone shape.
- Open (Access) Component Database.
- User Friendly, Drag and Drop Categories.
- Creating Title Blocks and Table of Contents.
- Integrated Microsoft Office Tools.
Symbols:
- One symbol to rule them all.
- Symbols that just works irrespective of units.
- Symbols with lots of brains.
- Symbols with automatic pin sets
- Symbols that understand electrical.
- Symbols with multiple components.
- Symbols that looks awesome.
- Making your own symbols.
- Extensive symbol sets.
