Welcome to Electra Help
- Concepts
- Relationship between symbols and components
- Drawings and the component database
- Getting started
- Creating a new drawing
- Opening a drawing
- Automatic saving
- Page scale
- Page measurement units
- Stencils and drawing area
- Opening and using stencil
- Connection points
- Positioning text
- Selecting sub shapes in a group
- Version control
- Using the dashboard
- Personalized dashboard
- Customizing your dashboard view
- Expanding and collapsing sections
- Using folders
- Creating folders
- Refreshing folders
- Renaming folders
- Moving folders
- Trashing, restoring and permanently deleting folders
- Finding drawings and folders
- How to find a drawing's location
- Export drawing in the dashboard
- Import PDF to the dashboard
- Create and manage drawings
- Selecting multiple drawings
- Creating a new drawing
- Renaming a drawing
- Moving a drawing
- Trashing, restoring and permanently deleting drawings
- Understanding trash permissions
- Duplicating a drawing
- Pinning a drawing to the top
- Saving and opening an offline drawing
- Create and manage teams
- Understanding team permissions
- Understanding inheritance
- Sharing a team drawing
- Creating a team
- Inviting team members
- Managing team permissions
- Renaming a team
- Leaving or deleting a team
- Sharing and collaborating
- Sharing a drawing
- Sharing with email (requires signup)
- Sharing with a public link (no signup required)
- Managing access and invites
- Sharing to social media
- Publishing a drawing
- Real time collaboration
- Viewing who is online
- Chatting with team mates
- Viewing notifications
- Integrating with Slack
- Creating a team from your Slack channel
- Sharing a drawing to Slack
- Electra options
- Accessing Electra options
- Automatic in/mm/cm/meters resize
- Automatic wire propagation and detection
- Split wires when dropping terminals
- Automatic adjust and straighten wire
- Automatically manage connection dots for wires
- How page prefix works
- Enable page prefix on references
- Enable page prefix on wires
- Page prefix separator for wires
- Automatic wiring when dropping symbol
- Automatically Place Layout Symbols on Rails
- Initial Placement Offset
- Location zone options
- Location format
- Creating your own title blocks
- The anatomy of a title block
- Title block creation process
- Inserting title block zones
- Inserting static text and graphics
- Inserting automatic text
- Creating and inserting user data
- The create title block window
- Using a custom title block
- Editing the title block icon
- Fit the title block to page margin
- Symbols and components
- One intelligent symbol
- Placing and duplicating symbols
- Intelligent inheritance
- Intelligent automatic numbering
- Editing symbol reference
- The reference window
- Displaying pin names
- Automatic pin names
- Modifying pin sets
- Understanding symbols and components
- Assigning components
- Managing components
- Selecting a component
- The component database
- The autolocation shape
- Creating your own symbol
- Symbol creation process
- The anatomy of a schematic symbol
- The create symbol window
- Editing the symbol icon
- Modifying existing symbols
- Wires
- A variety of wires
- Difference between a line and a wire
- Connecting and manipulating wires
- Editing wire name
- The wire window
- Customizing wires
- Automatic wire name detection
- Wire name propagation
- Automatic wire connection
- Wire links
- Wire buses
- Assigning Cables
- Managing Cables
- Selecting A Cable
- Arranging Cable Cores
- The Cable Database
- The Cable Tag Symbol
- Assigning Components To Wire
- Re-using circuits
- Intelligent copy and paste
- Prefab circuits
- Creating prefab circuits
- Using and sharing prefab circuits
- Intelligent terminals
- Terminal status detection
- Automatic wire splitting
- Using and generating terminals
- Manually assigning terminal numbers
- Jumping to linked terminals
- Using terminal blocks
- Organizing multitier terminals
- Generating jumpers
- PLC shapes
- The PLC symbol
- Customizing the PLC symbol
- Creating a single PLC using multiple symbols
- The connector symbol
- Customizing the connector symbol
- The ladder zone shape
- The ladder zone symbol
- Using ladder zone
- Panel layout
- The panel layout process
- Preparing a page for panel layout
- Inserting plates, cable ducts and rails
- Dimension shapes
- Generating panel layout
- Using guides to place layout shapes
- Using Automatic Placement on Rails
- Disabling Automatic Placement
- Using 3D layout shapes
- Making your own layout shapes
- Generating and exporting reports
- Generating reports
- Cross reference report
- Material reference report
- Importing material reference
- Bill of materials report
- Cable reference report
- Connections (From/To) report
- Cable bill of materials report
- Exporting reports
- Exporting bill of materials report to OpenBom
- Exporting component database
- Importing component database
- Exporting cable database
- Importing cable database
- Exporting symbols on drawing
- Importing symbols on drawing
- Export wires on drawing
- Import wires on drawing
- Generating Table of Contents
- Importing and Exporting in Electra Cloud
- Importing DXF and DWG files
- Exporting as DXF/DWG
- Exporting component database
- Importing component database
- Exporting cable database
- Importing cable database
- Exporting symbols on drawing
- Importing symbols on drawing
- Export wires on drawing
- Import wires on drawing
- Purchasing and licensing
- Find the perfect plan for your project
- Payment method
- Assigning licenses
- Payment history
- Change payment methods
- Add payment methods
- Retry charge
- Electra E9 license activation
- Cancel subscription
- Frequently Asked Questions
- If I share and move a drawing to a folder, will it affect other users?
- What happens if a user trashed the drawing I shared to them?
- Can a user create a new drawing from shared drawing?
- How to check if the drawing belongs to personal or team in the editor?
- Can Electra generate a From/To report?
- I already have CAD symbols in AutoCad, can I import them into Electra?
- How to import drawing from Electra Cloud to Electra E9 and vice versa
- How to use an existing drawing as a template in Electra E9?
- Preferences and settings
- Setting the language
- Setting the keyboard increment
- Automatically resize symbols to snap on grid
- Play sound when chat message is received
- Play sound when collaborator joins editing
- Notification settings
- Enable or disable desktop notifications
- DWG/DXF settings
- Enable or disable Import dimensions and Import layers
- Basic shape operations
- Selecting a drawing tool
- Selecting shapes and sub shapes
- Drawing squares, rectangles and rounded rectangles
- Drawing lines, arcs, curves and freeforms (paths)
- Modifying paths
- Moving path points
- Extending or joining paths
- Adding path points
- Deleting path points
- Rotating shapes
- Resizing shapes
- Maintaining aspect ratio
- Resizing shapes from the center
- Resizing with proportional stroke or line weight
- Setting stroke widths or line weight
- Setting text stroke width
- Setting line style
- Understanding line style format
- Setting line end (arrow)
- Setting line end (arrow) sizing
- Modifying stroke linecap
- Setting stroke linejoin
- Using connectors
- Using elbow connectors
- Using straight connectors
- Using jump connectors
- Resizing connectors
- Using connection points
- Adding connection points
- Deleting connection points
- Moving connection points
- Connecting shapes using connection points
- Locking shapes
- Adding hyperlinks
- Advanced shape operations
- Grouping shapes
- Ungrouping shapes
- Grouped shapes with text
- Flip vertical
- Flip horizontal
- Fragment shapes
- Union shapes
- Difference shapes
- Intersect shapes
- Flatten shapes
- How flattening works
- Trimming shapes
- Joining paths
- Outline text
- Converting shapes to path
- Why convert to path?
- Using stencils and symbols
- Opening and using a stencil
- Creating a new stencil
- Collapse all stencils
- Icon Size
- Understanding stencil permissions
- Editing stencil properties
- Closing a stencil
- Deleting a stencil
- Arrange stencils
- Moving stencils
- Sharing stencils
- Using symbols
- Creating a new symbol
- Editing a symbol
- Copying a symbol
- Pasting a symbol
- Pasting a symbol's name, description and tags
- Editing a symbol icon
- Refreshing a symbol
- Deleting a symbol
- Collapsing a stencil
- Arranging symbols in a stencil
- Finding symbols
- Downloading a stencil
- Importing a stencil
- Modifying fonts and text
- Setting font family
- Adding your own web fonts
- Adding your own custom fonts
- Setting font sizes
- Setting text alignment
- Positioning text
- Modifying text padding
- Creating text
- Outlining text
- Find and replace text
- Setting rich text styling on text
- Using flow text
- Create flow text
- Offset flow text
- Revert flow text
- Arranging and aligning shapes
- Arranging shapes using back, backward, front and forward
- Aligning shapes
- Creating guides
- Deleting guides
- Attaching shapes to guides
- Moving guides
- Hiding and showing guides
- Clearing (deleting) all guides
- Using the color picker
- Single click to set most recent color
- Setting text stroke color
- Using default colors
- Setting colors quickly
- Customizing colors
- Customizing gradients
- Add more stops to a gradient
- Remove a stop from gradient
- Saving customized gradients
- Resetting saved gradients
- Using colors and gradients across multiple devices
- Using painter
- How to use painter
- How to use multi-mode
- Using format painter
- Using color painter
- Using formula painter
- Using json painter
- Applying shadow, bevel and other effects
- Applying effects
- Drop shadow
- Inner shadow
- Bevel
- Blur
- Glow
- Deleting an effect
- Effect on text
- Shape properties and formulas
- Viewing Shape properties
- Adding a field
- Removing a field
- Entering values
- Entering units and expressions
- Locking aspect ratio
- Viewing and entering formulas
- Deleting a formula
- Editing formulas on the mini editor
- Automatically minimizing Shape properties
- Viewing text properties
- Editing text line spacing
- Assigning name to shapes
- Automatically incrementing shapes
- Resizing line end (arrow)
- Repeat Transformation
- Page size, scaling and units
- Displaying the page setup dialog
- Selecting a page sizing
- Setting a custom page size
- Selecting page orientation
- Fitting a page to a drawing
- Selecting a measurement unit
- Page scaling
- Page margin
- Multiple pages
- Adding a new page
- Renaming a page
- Selecting a page
- Page reordering
- Deleting a page
- Using templates
- Creating a template
- Creating a new drawing from a template
- Editing a template
- Using Electra template
- Browsing Electra templates
- Exporting shapes and drawings
- Exporting shapes
- Exporting the entire drawing
- Exporting as JPG
- Exporting as PNG
- Exporting as PDF
- Exporting as DXF/DWG
- Exporting as SVG
- Importing files
- Importing images into Electra (PNG, GIF, JPG, SVG, AI)
- Auto-resizing and clipping of imported image
- Importing Visio documents into Electra
- Importing AutoCAD (DWG/DXF) into Electra
- Importing Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files into Electra
- Creating and using layers
- Displaying the layers dialog
- The default layer
- Creating new layers
- Creating non printable, hidden or comment layers
- Renaming layers
- Selecting an active layer
- Assigning shapes to layers
- Inheriting layers
- Deleting layers
- Selecting all shapes in a layer
- Showing or hiding shapes in a layer
- Changing the z-order of layers
- Add custom data
- Using version control
- Save a version
- Reverting drawing version
- Add custom data
- What is custom data?
- Add custom data
- Use custom data
- Add custom menu
- Viewing custom menu
- Understanding custom menu
- Selecting a custom menu
- Rearrange custom menu
- Example of custom menu
- Using dark mode
- Viewing dark theme and light theme
- Using Clip Path
- Create clip path
- Text clipper
- Remove clip path
- Plugins
- What are plugins?
- Personal plugins
- Team plugins
- Public plugins
- Accessing and using plugins
- Running a plugin
- Automatically running plugins when drawing loads
- Stopping an automatically run plugin
- Organizing and closing plugins
- Creating a plugin
- Editing the plugin script
- Renaming and editing a plugin
- Editing plugin icons
- Refreshing a plugin
- Sharing a plugin to other teams
- Keyboard shortcuts
- List of keyboard shortcuts
- Import drawings or stencils from Electra E6/E7/E8
- Steps to import drawings from Electra E6/E7/E8 to Electra Cloud/Electra E9
- Steps to import stencils from Electra E6/E7/E8 to Electra Cloud/Electra E9
- Tools
- Renumber
- Renumber ladder zones
- Google Drive Integration
- Create Google Files from Vecta dashboard
- Google Files Functions
- Google Files Ownership
- Deleting Google Files
- Piping and Instrumentation Diagram
- What is P&ID?
- P&ID instrument symbol design
- To create tank with more inlets and outlets
- Assigning component, piping or signal
