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How to Draw Electrical Diagrams

SmartDraw has several tools and templates for making a variety of visuals for engineering and CAD design. Among these you'll find commonly used electrical drawings and schematics, like circuit diagrams, wiring diagrams, electrical plans and block diagrams. With SmartDraw's vast library of electrical symbols and easy drawing tools, anyone - apprentice or pro - can start building electrical diagrams right away.

Start with a Circuit Diagram Template

Let's start by making a circuit diagram. To find a circuit diagram template, click on the Engineering & CAD category then Circuit Panels in SmartDraw's Template Browser. Open the template called "Basic Electrical". While you'll start with a blank page, you'll notice a wide range of electrical symbols docked in the SmartPanel to the left of your drawing area. These capacitors, inductors, switches, resisters, and more will make building your circuit diagram easier.

Electrical diagram templates

Find More Symbols

Each template comes with a few relevant symbol libraries already docked. You can scroll through through them or use the carats (small black arrows to the right of the name) to expand and collapse any library.

You can also drag libraries up and down the stack to reorder them.

If you need more symbols, click on Search symbols in blue at the top of the SmartPanel. This will open the Symbols tab with a search field where you can search for additional symbols in SmartDraw's extensive collection.

If you find a library or symbol sets you want to add, click on the three dots and choose either Add result or Add library. Or you can simply drag and drop from this view.

Add an Annotation Layer

You can adda a scale-independent annotation layer to all electrical and engineering documents to help you enhance your drawings with additional information.

This annotation layer will automatically adjust its size and position as the drawing area (or paper size) changes. You can add the scale, author and other information about the design in this layer just like the "page view" in a traditional CAD program.

To add an Annotation Layer, click Add Annotation Layer in your SmartPanel.

Add an annotation layer