I’m a beginner and I want to ask if CAD is used in industrial control?
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Where is CAD mainly used in industrial control? Could experts provide an example of its application?
Hehe, I use it mainly to draw control cabinet panel diagrams and wiring diagrams
I work in construction, and it’s mainly used to create handover documents, such as preparing records of concealed works； Or write an engineering liaison note and draw a diagram to help the designer or supervisor understand your intentions better.
My work in control design mainly involves using CAD for drawing; it can be said that 90% of the work is done with CAD
Instrument circuit diagrams and the like are all created using CAD. The drawings produced by design institutes are all in CAD format.
I work at a design institute; my main task is using CAD
CAD is widely used in design institutes. Our company relies on training by hiring people from design institutes. In construction or technical upgrades, it is used to draw various diagrams, such as cabinet layout diagrams, circuit diagrams, power supply configuration diagrams, etc. But I use it less often. Our company has recently purchased a legitimate copy of CAD software.
In design institutes, CAD is primarily used, along with WORD, EXCEL, and others
I also work in a design institute. There, CAD is mainly used to draw instrument circuit diagrams, diagrams of instrument cable routing, front-panel layouts for instruments, back-panel wiring diagrams, and diagrams of cable routing in control rooms. EXCEL is generally used to create tables of instrument data and index sheets.
CAD is of course essential; it’s one of the basic skills in engineering.
It’s not urgently necessary, and it’s used quite often anyway. However, those who work in automation don’t require very high skills in CAD – being able to use it is sufficient
We use INTools to create circuit diagrams for design institutes. Having reviewed many materials from such institutes, we find that PID diagrams, equipment diagrams, and layout plans are often created in CAD