A Message From The Owner
I've been doing electrical work since 1984 when I began appliance repair work at an all-electric apartment complex in Omaha, Nebraska. I obtained my journeyman's electrician license in 1988 and my master's electrician license in 1990. In 1998, I decided to combine my enjoyment of computers with my electrical skills and went to work for a consulting MEP firm in Omaha. This is where I was first introduced to AutoCAD v14. Although I had used several Macintosh based CAD programs prior, AutoCAD became my instant favorite CAD program. In 1999 I passed my electrical FE (fundamentals of engineering) exam and my PE (professional engineer) test in 2002. By applying my experience as a construction electrician to my new career as a consulting engineer, I was able to combine the two worlds and my designs benefited from it.
Evolution of eCADlt
In 2003 I formed my own consulting engineering firm. One of my first goals was to produce my own CAD system. Everyone I knew that broke out on their own as a consultant would use all of the CAD symbols, blocks, schedules, and pen table of their former employers but I wanted all of my work to be uniquely my own. Thus, I drew all my own symbols, wrote my own macros, created my own pen table, and started to produce details. Being a new firm, I was on a tight budget so I decided to utilize AutoCAD LT to the full. That's how eCADlt began. During the last 14 years, it has been expanded and refined into what it is today. eCADlt is an add-on to AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT that adds an electrical menu, toolbars, a pen table, and an extensive library of schedules, details, and electrical design tools. This turns an out-of-the-box installation of AutoCAD LT into a ready to roll electrical design system. When you see all that eCADlt can do, you'll be astounded that it can run on AutoCAD LT without use of LISP. Visit our eCADlt Software page to learn more about this system. Also visit our YouTube channel in order to see our series of CAD instructional videos and a demonstration of eCADlt.
Free Electrical Design Tools
On this page of our site, you'll find many tools that I've developed over the years. They include my very popular electrical panel schedules which calculate NEC load values and which link together to model the load of an entire facility. The resulting schedule can be brought into AutoCAD as an OLE object for a dynamic panel schedule that updates when you update the Excel spreadsheet. I also have feeder tables, conduit fill calculators, a residential load calc tool, handy CAD references, links to websites useful to electricians and MEP engineers, and other free items. Please use and enjoy these free items and check out our instructional videos and demonstrations of eCADlt. Contact us for more information at any time. Visit our Free Design Tools page to download any or all of these useful free electrical design tools.
Todd Stahlnecker - Owner