September 04, 2020 · Capital X Panel Designer · Circuit reuse · Electrical CAD · What's New

Smart Circuit Reuse Improves Productivity by 150%

We are now part of Siemens’ family. Electra Cloud is now Capital Electra X and Electra E9 is now Capital Electra 2210.

Since launching Electra Cloud in January (now Capital Electra X), we have been working hard to bring even more innovation and productivity to you, our users. With our cloud-native and browser-based platform, these improvements are made much faster and easier.

One of the areas we felt needed improvement was the circuit reuse feature. For example, when you copy and paste a direct on line (DOL) circuit, the AutoRename dialog will pop up.

To maintain the names of the main power wires, the pop-up allows users to choose whether to preserve or increment wires according to their preferences.

Removing the pop-up for far faster operations

When you copy a circuit, wires that are not connected will be automatically detected, allowing Capital Electra X to automatically rename your entire circuit while preserving the names of the wires that are NOT connected.

Without the pop-up, the user experience is more natural, resulting in even faster circuit completion, and providing you with even more productivity gains.

How fast is the improved Smart Circuit Reuse?

With a pop-up dialogue, we measured that a user typically has to spend 47s to reuse 5 DOL circuits, but without a pop-up, it takes only 20s.

This results in a whopping 150% productivity improvement with the new smart circuit reuse, as illustrated below.

We hope you would find smart circuit reuse helpful in completing your circuits even faster, and should you have any suggestions, please do not hesitate to drop us a message at [email protected] or at our Siemens Capital Electra X community forum.

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