Software for domestic electrical installations

[nilium]

Hello all,

I was wondering if people had any insights for a software package for generating schematics of domestic electrical installations (circuit breakers, wall outlets, etc.). I'm not sure Altium has capabilities beyond electronic circuits.

Many thanks,

NV

[Mechatrommer]

for pro or industrial grade design, the company where i were was using AutoCAD, you may find general purpose free CAD that can do the job. for personal use, i prefer pencil, eraser and paper.

[nilium]

Thank you. I will check out AutoCAD Electrical. I've been using regular AutoCAD to draw boxes and stuff, but it would be nice to have something more pertinent. I would appreciate any other ideas (Windows/Mac/Linux)!

NV

[Smokey]

I've seen Autocad used a lot for machine tool wiring documentation.  That works really well.
You don't really need anything special though.  Any vector graphics package would work.  You only have to draw whatever symbols you need once, then cut and paste and connect with lines. 

I've made custom symbols for our schematic capture program that I've used for wiring diagrams, but it probably would have been faster to just draw them as line drawings.

[free_electron]

Square-D and Siemens have drawing programs that include all their products. Legrand also has something like than.

[Kremmen]

Thank you. I will check out AutoCAD Electrical. I've been using regular AutoCAD to draw boxes and stuff, but it would be nice to have something more pertinent. I would appreciate any other ideas (Windows/Mac/Linux)!

NV

+1 AutoCAD Electrical. Done some industrial electric drawings with it and that is definitely the way to go. There is a learning curve and it will be a bittersweet experience in its initial complexity, but IMO worth it if you have the chance. You can of course do drawings with a pencil on lined paper, but ACAD E will be a different world in its support for the design workflow and design documentation.