The target of the electrical tools (dare I call it CAD?) is the creation of an electrical control enclosure (aka panel). If you want to look them up here is the link: You can download either one for free and use it for two weeks before paying. You can't get that with any other CAD program I know.

I don't know if he still does, but in the past their owner and chief programmer read the posts every day and often responded that quickly. Another great feature was their BB where you could get help quickly. One thing I liked about it was it lived up to it's name: it was quite easy to learn and I made my first drawing an hour after I downloaded it. The same company that makes FastCAD also makes a less expensive version called Eas圜AD, which I used for many years. I don't know if electrical design has any facets that require computer design tools, like the integration of schematic and PCB layout or the many design tools that mechanical engineers use or even parametric design, but I doubt that any of the 2D CAD programs have enhancements like that for electrical work. Change existing menus or icons, create new icons, create new menus or icon bars, and even execute macros from either or both. And then you have complete control over the menus and the icons in the icon bars on the screen. Things like that can be great time savers when you have dozens or even hundreds of text labels to add. After entering the prefix or suffix, the starting number, the increment, and the final number I can place the labels on the drawing as fast as I can click on the locations. This has been very helpful when I had to do things like numbering electrical terminal blocks or wires in a cable. For instance, I have macros that allow me to create text labels using a sequence of numbers with different prefixes or suffixes or both. Here is a composite of two screen shots showing the symbols in the two electrical symbol libraries that came with the program: You can even write macros to speed up many chores that can occur in the design process.

You can even add them to existing symbol libraries. Mostly you need to put them in a symbol library and then you can use them. Symbols are a bit harder to create, but not very much. That's it, any drawing can be used as a part in a new drawing. Parts are the easiest as you simply make a drawing and save it.

Creating additional symbols or parts (two different things in FastCAD) is fairly easy in FastCAD. I have one called FastCAD but I am sure there are others. Some of the 2D CAD programs had symbol libraries of electrical components.

Autocad electrical symbol too big