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• Concepts
• Relationship between symbols and components
• Drawings and the component database
• Getting started
• Creating a new drawing
• Opening a drawing
• Automatic saving
• Automatic saving in Electra E9
• 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
• Creating a team
• Inviting team members
• Understanding team permissions
• Understanding inheritance in teams
• Sharing a team drawing
• 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
• Permission types
• 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 symbol resizing
• Wire propagation and detection
• Split wires when dropping terminals
• Manage connection dots for wires
• Adjust and straighten wires
• Pop-up when no cable core available
• Renumber symbols/wires in ladder zones
• Enable panel prefix on references
• Automatically wire symbols on drop
• Renumber wires after splitting
• How page prefix works
• Enable page prefix on references
• Enable page prefix on wires
• Page prefix separator for wires
• Automatically Place on Rails
• Initial Placement Offset
• Export Format
• 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
• Exporting title block data
• Importing title block data
• Fit the title block to page margin
• Automatically insert title block after creating a new page
• Symbols and components
• One intelligent symbol
• Placing and duplicating symbols
• Intelligent inheritance
• Intelligent automatic numbering
• Editing symbol reference
• The reference window
• Realtime reference window
• Displaying pin names
• Automatic pin names
• Modifying pin sets
• Editing symbol information
• Understanding symbols and components
• Assigning components
• Managing components
• Selecting a component
• The component database
• The autolocation shape
• Customizing the Fitting Manifold symbol
• The Component Tag Symbol
• Creating your own symbol
• Symbol creation process
• The anatomy of a schematic symbol
• The create symbol window
• Editing existing symbols
• Viewing components of a symbol
• 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
• Mounting Hole
• 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?
• How to delete my account?
• Preferences and settings
• Setting the language
• Setting the keyboard increment
• Automatically resize symbols to snap on grid
• Show confirmation dialog when modifying stencils
• Automatically insert title block after creating a new page
• 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
• Changing connection mode of a shape
• 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
• Symbol View
• Stencil size
• Understanding stencil permissions
• Editing stencil properties
• Closing a stencil
• Deleting a stencil
• Arrange stencils
• Moving stencils
• Sharing stencils
• Refreshing stencils
• Using symbols
• Creating a new symbol
• Editing symbol information
• Copying a symbol
• Pasting a symbol
• Pasting a symbol's name, description and tags
• Editing a symbol icon
• Resetting 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 and custom fonts
• Setting font sizes
• Setting text alignment
• Positioning text
• Modifying text padding
• Creating text
• Outlining text
• Setting rounded background on 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
• Distributing 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
• Setting background color on the text
• 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 the color palette
• 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)
• How to use color palette in custom properties
• 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
• Exporting as 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
• Plugin categorization
• Collapse all plugins
• Plugin size
• Running a plugin
• Automatically running plugins when drawing loads
• Stopping an automatically run plugin
• Creating a plugin
• Editing the plugin script
• Renaming and editing a plugin
• Editing plugin icons
• Refreshing a plugin
• Sharing a plugin to other teams
• Finding plugins
• 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
• The sub panel symbol
• Sub panel symbol
• Generate layouts with sub panels
• Add custom events
• What is custom event?
• Steps to create custom events
• Use custom events
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