SEE Electrical Expert
Electrical CAD software for industrial systems
All the power of electrical CAD dedicated to industrial automation and electrical harnesses
Overview
SEE Electrical Expert is an Electrical CAD software that enables electrical professionals to design, document, and maintain complex electrical schematics, wiring, and terminal strips.
This advanced software allows for efficient design of fully detailed electrical and automation diagrams. It can be customized to comply with each customer's specific needs. It offers advanced design capabilities for 2D panel engineering, wire and cable management, PLC design within streamlined workflows and improve productivity.
Fully customizable environments and methods for creating electrical projects are among the main features of the software. Wiring management with both internal and external connections is included, along with automatic wiring optimization. Options and variants functionality allow the electrical design of different variants of the connection network between symbols in the project.
SEE Electrical Expert can be purchased as a subscription from three bundles options – Launch, Grow, and Scale, and it can be expanded with additional add-ons, such as Automatic Diagram Generation.
Subscription Options
- Efficient schematic editor for single and multi-line diagrams
- Wiring Diagrams and electrical schematics management
- BOM and customizable reports
- Terminal strip plan generation
- PDF export, DWG import/export
- Exchange of project data by XML, XLS, and others
- Revision and error management
- Extensive electrical symbol libraries with an editor
- Equipment catalog editor
- Full wiring and cables management with optimization
- PLC design management
- 2D panel layout editor
- Cabinet thermal calculation
- Export and import of all technical data of the project
- Options & variants
- Advanced report management for revisions
- Equipment catalog shared on MS SQL
- Advanced user environment management
Key Features
SEE Electrical Expert optimizes the design of electrical systems with automated workflows and unique diagramming capabilities. This high-performance CAD software is ideal for electrical designers working in a design firm. Notable features include:
- Produce electrical diagrams and bills of materials using an extensive symbol library and multi-manufacturer equipment catalog
- Generate automatic reports, such as a bill of materials (BOM)
- Import and export in different formats such as PDF, DWG, DXF, DXB and EMF
- Design electrical cabinets and switchboards using a 2D and 3D panel layout editor
- Customize environments and methods according to your unique requirements and workflows.
- Manage complex designs projects with variations
- Collaborate on different technical branches, and set up best design processes across organizations
- Advanced management of wiring, cables, terminal strips, PLC, and connectors
- Manage PLCs using a built-in PLC configurator with automatic generation of PLC inputs/outputs in the electrical diagram
Benefits
SEE Electrical provides a comprehensive feature set for professional-grade electrical CAD projects:
- Streamlines the electrical design process, reducing errors, and saving time
- Boosts productivity with shortcuts for tedious schematics tasks, automation, and management of options and variants
- Easy to customize to follow the design process and design method to specific customer requirements
- Provides modularity management for large machine or panel projects
- Enables variation management with easy creation of options and variants of electrical machines
- Improves the accuracy of project documentation
- Provides seamless collaboration with co-workers and business partners
- Improves safety & compliance by using industry standards to reduce errors and simplify compliance
Add Ons for SEE Electrical Expert
Data and Project Management Add Ons
- Web Catalogue and eCatalog, an extensive multi-manufacturer electrical equipment and devices catalogue
- Multi-Languages, to manage, automate and produce projects in various languages
Electrical Cabinet 3D Modeling and Manufacturing Add Ons
- 3D Panel Design, 3D cabinet layout, 3D models, wire channel and rail management, collision checking, reporting, and more
- 3D Panel Manufacturing, to support the various stages in panel manufacturing, including device picking, labeling, mechanical processing, pre-assembly of terminal strips, wire prefabrication, panel mounting, and wiring
- 3D Shop Floor, for electrical wiring and equipment assembly software for use in the production stage
Cable Harness Engineering Add Ons
- Harness Documentation: provides harness editor capabilities, as well as functionalities for defining hardware associated with wire end fittings, covering the features currently protected by the Harness Documentation and End Fitting licenses.
- SEE Jigboard: enables the design and documentation of assembly and wiring boards for manufacturing preparation.
*The Harness Documentation add-on is a mandatory prerequisite to use SEE Jigboard.
Automation & Collaboration Add Ons
- Automatic Diagram Generation, for generating projects
- Concurrent Engineering, to enable a simultaneous and secure collaborative work environment for electrical projects
PLM Integration Add-On (Windchill & Teamcenter)
- Seamless PLM Integration, connect SEE Electrical Expert with PTC Windchill and Siemens Teamcenter
- Bidirectional Data & BOM Synchronization, ensure consistency of projects, components, and documentation
- Centralized Project & Version Management, manage revisions, attributes, and releases directly within PLM
- Improved Collaboration & Data Accuracy, eliminate manual work and enable a single source of truth across teams
SEE Electrical Expert - XPLM ECAD Integration
Add-on to manage SEE Electrical Expert projects inside PTC Windchill and Siemens Teamcenter PLM systems.
SEE Automatic Diagram Generation
And add-on to generate electrical projects for SEE Electrical Expert and SEE Electrical users
SEE Harness Engineering
Add-on for the design of 2D electrical harnesses from schematic diagrams produced by SEE Electrical Expert
SEE Multi-languages
An add-on to automate electrical project translation for SEE Electrical & SEE Electrical Expert
SEE Web Catalogue
Add-on provides access to a comprehensive cloud-based electrical database of references and symbols for SEE Electrical, SEE Electrical Expert, and SEE 3D Panel
SEE Electrical 3D Panel
Design and manufacture electrical cabinets in a 3D environment, including all of the electrical components and wiring using an efficient design, production, and assembly process.
SEE Electrical 3D Shop Floor
Electrical wiring and equipment assembly software for use in the production stage
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Testimonials
- Velec Systems,
The use of SEE Electrical Expert was the logical continuation of the evolution of the company. With the current challenges and climate problems, we had to double our workforce in the space of a few years to meet the demand for solutions capable of both:
- Achieve specific objectives in terms of water quality
- Reduce costs related to water consumption
- Reduce the environmental footprint of our customers globally (water, energy and release of chemical substances, etc.).
From there, we could no longer be satisfied with a “basic” software, without any real evolution in terms of electrical project management. The use of SEE Electrical Expert has represented a positive turning point for the company, for its customers and for the environment since it gives us the ability to work on several important files at the same time.
- Chemdoc Water Technologies,
- Equans Ineo,
FAQs
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Brochure SEE Electrical Expert V5R2
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