Drawing Lists in AutoCAD Electrical

In AutoCAD Electrical it is possible to create many different reports analyzing the data in your drawing project such as Bill of Materials and Wire To/From lists. These reports can be placed directly onto a drawing and/or exported to an external application such as Mircosoft Excel.

One of the frequently overlooked reports is the ‘Drawing List’ report. Large projects in particular, where many drawings are required, it is good practice to compile a drawing list, in AutoCAD or other similar products this can be a painstaking and manual task to create and maintain during the design lifecycle of the project. AutoCAD Electrical offers an automated tool which creates and updates this list automatically at the click of a button.

To create a drawing list open an AutoCAD Electrical Project in the project manager, right click on the project and select ‘Drawing List Report’.

Create a Drawing List Report

Select ‘New Report’ and choose the drawing you want to include in the Drawing List, in my case I’m going to ‘Do All’.

This will open the Report Generator.

Drawing Lists Report Generator

Change the report format and the properties/fields shown in each column.

Drawing Lists Data Fields

The images below are the ‘Put on Drawing’ options and results, as I have already place a drawing list in the project the ‘Update Existing’ is available and toggled ON.

Table Generation Setup Screen
AutoCAD Drawing Lists Report

The image below shows the ‘Save to File’ options and results.

Save Report to File
Drawing Lists Report in Excel

Using this functionality will make maintaining your records and your drawing lists much easier.

Happy drafting!

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