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CADMATIC Electrical -Solution for industrial electrical, instrumentation & automation engineering

CADMATIC Electrical - Your total solution for industrial electrical engineering projects

CADMATIC Electrical offers a versatile engineering platform for creating project deliverables in electrical, instrumentation, and automation fields. 

The software's easy-to-use CAD engine and robust database capabilities accommodate projects of all scales throughout the project lifecycle, facilitating efficient data utilization and ensuring seamless integration across all documents for consistent, interconnected, and high-quality outputs. 

Key benefits

  • Enhanced productivity with a cutting-edge tool refined over 40 years to seamlessly automate the electrical engineering process in industrial projects.
  • Improved quality: Ensure accuracy and consistency across all documents, from diagrams and layouts to reports and 3D models.
  • Efficient collaboration: Enable seamless teamwork within and across disciplines with multi-user and database-based features, driving intra- and interdisciplinary cooperation.
  • Integrated design: Seamlessly integrate electrical engineering with other engineering disciplines to enhance connectivity and data coherence across all project aspects.
  • Comprehensive solution: Cover complete documentation needs for electrical, instrumentation, and automation design in a single platform.
  • Unified design style across projects: Enrich and consolidate design data for comprehensive projects, from basic to detailed design, while maintaining a unified design style across projects.
  • Make your work flow: Easily customize the software to align with your preferred work methods.
  • Agile design: Surpass expectations by accommodating challenging design requirements and change orders, ensuring flexibility and adaptability throughout the design process.

  • Highlighted features

    • Full-scale standalone CAD supporting your design.
    • Multi-user environment
    • Project tree for clear structure and easy navigation
    • Manage whole design data with ease and accuracy in table view
    • Extensive symbol libraries for all document types
    • Parts management with full control over device templates, eliminating the need to edit devices individually.
    • Import/export formats DWG, DXF, DRW, PDF, XLS several raster formats, and import of DGN and EDZ product macros.
    • Integrated with CADMATIC Cable Router, CADMATIC P&ID, CADMATIC eShare, DIALux EVO, ETAP, and  Excel.
    • Intelligent re-use of diagrams
    • Automated ID management and easy renumbering to ensure consistency in all deliverables
    • Automatic diagram generation for design automation
    • Automatic updates across interconnected documents
    • Real-time cross-references
    • Versatile cabling, and wiring functions
    • PLC management - Efficiently handle PLC symbols and connections
    • Bulk editing of project information in a database tool or Excel.
    • Automated reports and connection lists including cable length, location, etc.
    • Intelligent PDF export
    • Document comparison to track changes

  • Efficient data management and streamlined design workflow

    • Efficiently manage and analyze project data using a powerful tabular database tool, providing streamlined data handling and easy access.
    • Benefit from efficient centralized data management, ensuring automatic updates of project deliverables for the highest level of quality.
    • Eliminate redundancy and manual data duplication by creating information once and importing/reimporting project data from third-party software via Excel.
    • Enjoy the convenience of mass editing, allowing quick and simultaneous modifications to project data, with the option to utilize Excel for efficient editing.
    • Consolidate design data from multiple documents to achieve a unified and comprehensive project, seamlessly integrating information to enhance the level of detail, clarity, and informativeness.
    • Experience the benefits of interlinked design, enabling connections between devices, cables, and objects throughout multiple project documents.
    • Achieve seamless synchronization between layout drawings, diagrams, reports, and BIM models, ensuring consistent and up-to-date information across all project documents.

  • Integrated design process to improve efficiency and collaboration

    • Fully integrated design environment that reduces the need for multiple software vendors.
    • Seamlessly connect CADMATIC Electrical with other Cadmatic engineering tools to facilitate better collaboration between departments.
    • Keep your project data unified and up-to-date across all CADMATIC engineering platforms and reduce the need for manual data migrations.
    • By optimizing the information flow across engineering disciplines, integrations support the acceleration of project timelines, reduce costs, and enhance decision-making.
    • Integrations reduce the need for revision meetings and manual checks, minimizing manual data entry and lowering the chances of inconsistencies and unnecessary mistakes, allowing engineers to focus on more valuable tasks and challenges

Bridging the gaps by integrating electrical engineering with other engineering disciplines

In the complex world of engineering, having different engineering departments working in silos creates unnecessary challenges. CADMATIC Electrical revolutionizes both intra- and interdisciplinary design enabling companies to bring everything together.

CADMATIC Electrical -Solution for industrial electrical, instrumentation & automation engineering

Intradisciplinary design in CADMATIC Electrical

  • CADMATIC Electrical transforms intra-disciplinary design by integrating electrical, automation, and instrumentation engineering. It enables engineers to effortlessly exchange design data, reduce manual tasks, and enhance efficiency.
  • By connecting all deliverables through a central database, CADMATIC Electrical ensures data integrity, minimizes errors, and fosters collaboration and decision-making.
  • Automatic information generation from interconnected documents supports effective change management, resulting in next-level results in electrical, instrumentation, and automation engineering. 
CADMATIC Electrical -Solution for industrial electrical, instrumentation & automation engineering

Interdisciplinary design with CADMATIC product family

  • CADMATIC offers a holistic approach to inter-disciplinary design by integrating electrical, instrumentation, and automation engineering with 3D modeling, automated cable routing, P&IDs, information and data management, and other necessary tools.
  • Our one-provider philosophy streamlines the entire engineering process, covering a wide array of disciplines.
  • By leveraging CADMATIC's interconnected tools, engineers can efficiently collaborate across disciplines, ensuring data integrity and reducing errors enhancing collaboration and decision-making, leading to higher quality project deliverables.

Why CADMATIC Electrical

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All electrical schematics and arrangement drawings

Create the whole scope of documentation that is required from electrical, instrumentation, and automation engineering. All drawings, diagrams, and reports interconnected with one easy-to-use software platform.

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Choose the work methods that suit you the best

CADMATIC Electrical offers several working methods which allows you to develop your design processes optimally regardless of your customer requirements.

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Intelligent object and data management

It is easy to find all occurrences regardless of the document type. You can always compare the documents and reports with previous versions to track and highlight the changes and safeguard the quality of your projects.

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Diagram generation with parts assembly tool

Automatic diagram generation with Modular Generation

Bulk editing

Automatic generation of block diagram from a cable list

Cross- and wire references

Document comparison

Symbol libraries


Accommodating your design needs and growth plans with three product levels

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CADMATIC Electrical Lite

A cost-effective, easy-to-use CAD tool tailored for basic electrical documentation drafting, providing an intuitive and user-friendly experience. 

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CADMATIC Electrical Basic

Unlock more advanced features to enhance electrical and automation design in non-connected, single-user environments, increasing efficiency and productivity. 

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CADMATIC Electrical Premium

Harness the power of database-based design tool with various automated features and multidisciplinary collaboration capabilities, enabling maximal effectiveness in electrical, instrumentation, and automation engineering.

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Reference

Makron – When a designer suddenly has a fortnight’s extra time

Industrial turnkey supplier reduces two-week task of generating primary series circuit schematics to 30 minutes with modular generation.

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"Before, it could take two to three weeks to create diagrams for 100 engine outputs, now this work can be done in half an hour."

Jarmo Snellman

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Benefits from software integrations

Effortless data synchronization

CADMATIC Electrical allows you to maximize your design output through integrated and high-level features and workflows. CADMATIC Electrical is the first comprehensive database-based solution for the different design and documentation needs of electrical and automation engineering in the process and industry.

Multi-discipline collaboration with CADMATIC integrated software portfolio

Interdisciplinary collaboration is the key for better productivity and profitability. CADMATIC Electrical is deeply integrated with the CADMATIC product family: 3D Plant Modeller, 3D Cable Router, P&ID diagrams and eShare.

Unlock next level efficiency by integrating CADMATIC Electrical with your other software solutions

For a long time, we have developed CADMATIC Electrical into a designer’s workbench, with the aim to integrate software important to designers with CADMATIC Electrical. Integrations speed up the transfer of information and improve its accuracy.

Why CADMATIC Electrical

Connect all electrical engineering documents to facilitate automatic data flow across interconnected documents, maintain data integrity, and keep all documents up-to-date.

Enhance collaboration across different departments. Create all electrical, instrumentation, and automation engineering documents with one software and integrate electrical engineering with other disciplines.

Elevate productivity by automating routine tasks, reporting, and manual updates across project documents and focus on high-value tasks.

Improve the visibility of project progress and proactively react to potential challenges and risks of delays to ensure on-time execution.

Lower software costs and utilize a single electrical engineering software that covers the whole scope of electrical, instrumentation, and automation engineering, from basic to detail design.

Adapt to varying design requirements and modify your design process to be most suitable for achieving the design goals.

Utilize various software to cover all project design needs.

Fragmented project deliverables that lead to unnecessary design errors and outdated documentation.

Difficulty in estimating and managing software costs and design schedules.

Ununified project deliverables and lack of cohesion.


Lack of synchronization between the 3D model and the electrical project.

Project deadline overruns due to manual change management or last-minute changes.

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CADMATIC Electrical is the first comprehensive database-based solution for the different design and documentation needs of electrical and automation engineering in process industries: all electrical, instrumentation and automation engineering with one design application.

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