WSCAD How-to Tutorial: Automate Electrical Design with WSCAD Project Wizard

This workshop focuses on the WSCAD Project Wizard add-on, demonstrating live how engineers can automate electrical designs across the disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Cabinet Engineering, and Electrical Installation using predefined macros and variables. Viewers will learn how this add-on drives standardization, accelerates the creation of complex schematics and Control Panel designs, and significantly reduces design time.

What to expect in the video

• Get an overview of the modular WSCAD solution, including the engineering software WSCAD ELECTRIX, the wscaduniverse.com part database with over 2.2 million parts from over 440 manufacturers, and the augmented reality apps.
• Standardize your design process instantly: See how the Project Wizard enables the automatic creation of circuit diagrams, cabinet layouts, and schematics.
• Explore the macro system, the core of the Wizard, which utilizes macros to store variables like symbol texts and structure identifiers, displayed in a table format for easy editing.
• Maximize flexibility: Customize configurations, activate or deactivate individual macros, and save your settings as macro sets for future use, ensuring standardization across different projects.
• See three disciplines integrated: Watch the Wizard applied across Electrical Engineering (planning medium, low, and extra-low voltage systems), Cabinet Engineering (including optimal component placement, Collision checks, and calculation of wire lengths), and Electrical Installation.
• Get a quick look at the AI Copilot, WSCAD’s newest innovation, an intelligent assistant designed to streamline tasks, assist with schematics drafting, and improve accuracy through error detection.
• Review success stories and learn how customers are using the Project Wizard to automate engineering tasks, cutting design time by up to 90% for standard systems and up to 30% for custom projects.
• Automate your circuit diagrams creation in the live demo: Enter project details, define a complex four-aspect structure, and use the Wizard to select macros from categorized folders.
• Utilize the Overlay function to place multiple macros on a single schematic page (e.g., a power output, surge protection, and phase monitoring) using a single selection.
• Edit macro variables directly via the table view to quickly change values, such as part numbers or PLC addresses, across different locations (e.g., Seal 1, Seal 2, and Seal 3).
• Create reusable macro sets by selecting multiple pages with macros and saving them as templates for future projects.
• Experience rapid schematic generation and watch the pages being created in the background, including the automatic generation of cross-references and connections between pages.
• Connect different disciplines: See how elements configured in Electrical Installation (like sensors) are automatically linked via cross-references to the corresponding three-pole schemes in Electrical Engineering.
• Manage external data: Save your project configurations in XML or Access database formats, allowing you to externally edit data or import configurations from other applications.

The WSCAD Project Wizard acts as the blueprint generator for your electrical design project: instead of meticulously drafting every line of your circuit diagrams manually, you define the core modules (macros) once, and the Wizard automatically assembles the complete, standardized project documentation in record time.