ProfiCAD offers you an easy way to design electrical diagrams, electronic circuits, and also hydraulics and pneumatic systems. The program is especially useful both for engineers and for students that want to improve their electronics knowledge level. ProfiCAD comes with a large library of predefined objects and allows you to customize your project in many ways.
As a former electronics student, I was really impressed by the tools ProfiCAD had to offer. Its comprehensive gallery of objects includes graphical representations for electronic symbols, and also for pneumatic diagrams, trunking systems, hydraulics, and many others.
By using this application, you can design various systems and customize them in many ways. For example, while testing the program, I easily managed to build a security alarm system in which I included components like automatic locks, motion detectors, alarms, and even a central monitoring station.
In my opinion, even though this program is quite expensive, it proves to be a reliable tool for anyone who designs electronic circuits.
v10.3.8 [May 8, 2019]
- Improved list of cables: List of cables includes information about to which symbols and connection points a cable is connected.
- Editable dimension value: You can set custom dimension text in the Properties panel.
- Previewing pages and layers: Mouse over the Pages panel to display a page preview. This makes it easier to navigate around multi-page drawings.
- Printing the current page: Right-click on the drawing and select Print current page.
- Applying format settings to multiple pages: Use this function to apply format settings to multiple pages simultaneously. This can be useful if, for example, you want to change the paper size for a multi-page drawing.
- Bill of material filter: The filter allows you to determine which symbols are listed in the Bill of material.
- Pasting pictures from clipboard: The program allows you to insert an image from the Windows clipboard into the drawing. This is the easiest way to get a picture from another source, for example from a PDF catalog.
