PATRUCCO
S.A.S., founded in 1977, offers users powerful
2D CAD solutions for civil and electrical installation
design, including industrial automation and
electrical panel design. Uni-Tool Professional
is Windows based and does not rely on other
CAD software to operate.
Please click on one of the products listed below
for more information:
INDUSTRIAL
AUTOMATION AND ELECTRICAL PANEL DESIGN
UNI-TOOL Automation
is engineering software developed on
Windows 95/98/NT platform for industrial
automation, electrical panel and electromechanical
device design.
UNI-TOOL Automation
consists of a powerful 2D CAD that allows
one to generate, in extremely easy and
fast way, electromechanical designs
with unlimited single/multi-wire auxiliary
and/or power sheets, terminal strips
and PLC schematics.
In addition to its
design functions, UNI-TOOL
Automation automatically
processes the wire numbering, the filling
of the coil/contact cross-reference
table for relays and remote control
switches, the terminal numbering and
the cable definition.
Finally, UNI-TOOL
Automation
directly extracts the entire project
documentation composed of terminal lists,
cable lists, wiring lists, reference
lists and part lists.
UNI-TOOL Automation
also perfectly integrates and interfaces
with UNI-TOOL
Manager, another product
of the UNI-TOOL family. With UNI-TOOL
Manager it's possible
to extract more complex and detailed
bills of materials and estimates with
prices, labor tables, cost analysis
and warehouse management functions.
UNI-TOOL Automation
can also automatically process a single
sheet belonging to a whole multi-sheet
project, in order to extract complete
bills of materials with part numbers,
codes, descriptions, prices, etc. You
may directly extract information from
an internal database containing the
product descriptions provided by the
leading component producers (Siemens,
Schneider, Klockner-Moeller, etc.).
UNI-TOOL
Automation is developed in
a proprietary environment absolutely independent
from any other CAD programs (such as AutoCAD®
or similar). Engineers and installers
will find in this product all the commands
and tools necessary for the completion
of an electromechanical design with no
need to resort to other external software.
It's the UNI-TOOL
Automation complete independence
from other systems that has made it possible
to devise its specific procedures and
commands. Thanks to these features, you
can generate schematics and designs in
a much faster and more intuitive way than
compared with programs that operate on
an already preexisting basis.
UNI-TOOL Automation
is very easy-to-use because it works in
Microsoft Windows®.
UNI-TOOL Automation
is inexpensive because it's completely
autonomous software and it doesn't require
other CAD products (such as AutoCAD®)
to operate. Therefore its cost is offset
with the completion of the first project!
MAIN
FEATURES
Auxiliary
and power schematic design (multi-sheet
designs)
Unlimited multi-sheet design creation
with auxiliary and power schematics.
Symbol libraries
Over 1000 symbols in conformity with IEC
norms. Visual symbol selection inside
of a window that displays all the symbols
of the selected library. Direct symbol
loading by typing their code (guided mode).
Unlimited possibility of either easily
creating new symbols or modifying those
already provided.
Composed symbols
Composed symbol libraries for "intelligent"
management of complex devices (remote
control switches, auxiliary contact blocks,
etc.), which are composed of multiple
symbols placed on different parts of the
design.
Design management
and automatic processing
Intelligent project management tools with
commands to browse through different pages
of a multi-sheet design. Design processing
with automatic wire numbering, automatic
filling of coil/contact cross-reference
tables and terminal numbering with possibility
of setting numbering parameters.
Powerful graphical
functions
Design with Cartesian, polar and tilted
axis. Selectable measure units, design
scale and grid points. A4, A3, A2, A1,
A0, A, B, C, D, E or customizable sheet
size. Predefined or customizable title
block. Design of up to 256 layers. Automatic
area sketching. Automatic quotation.
Cabinet and mechanical
detail design
Special symbol libraries with scale design
functions, automatic dimensioning, multiple
layer management.
Design import/export
in DXF format from other CAD programs
DXF interface to import designs in DXF
format from other CAD programs (e.g. planimetries
processed with AutoCAD® 12, 13, 14,
2000, LT).
Symbol
legend automatic creation
Automatic extraction of the schematic
legend with symbol direct computation.
Cable management
Possibility of setting out cables in a
design as collections of several single
wires. Online cable management with direct
control of the maximum wire number permitted
for each cable. Command to set cable features
such as section, length, type, color,
etc.
Part lists,
bills of materials, terminal strip/cable/wiring
lists
Very simple and immediate creation of
part lists and bills of materials by
indicating which kind of information
must be visualized. Terminal strip,
cable and wiring list extraction in
electromechanical multi-sheet designs.
Customizable lists as regards both graphical
format and contents categories.
Terminal strip and cable lists automatically
extracted both in alphanumerical and
graphical format.
Possibility of using UNI-TOOL Automation
in connection with UNI-TOOL Manager
for more complex bills of materials
and special functions (labor tables,
cost analysis, warehouse management
functions, etc.).
Electrical
device database
Complete database with part numbers,
descriptions, prices, etc. that can
be used in connection with symbols placed
on the design. Possibility of using
either the internal UNI-TOOL database
or external price lists provided by
other electrical device suppliers (the
following formats are supported: Microsoft
Access®, Microsoft Excel®, Paradox,
dBIII and dBIV, Metel).
Text translation
Special command for English, German,
French, Italian and Spanish text translation.
Unlimited possibility of adding new
terms and their related translations.
Label creation
with Grafoplast and Modernotecnica labelling
systems
Direct interface with Grafoplast and
Modernotecnica labelling systems to
create labels for the device numbers
used in the electrical design. File
creation to produce labels with component,
terminal, terminal strip and wire numbers.
Color print/Print
preview
Possibility of using any ink-jet/laser
printers and plotters supported by Microsoft
Windows®.
Help on line
Direct access to information about any
available commands.
UNI-TOOL Automation
Auto-Training Course
For better training in UNI-TOOL Automation
you can use UNI-TOOL Assistant, an interactive
training-course about UNI-TOOL CADs
on PC.
The course is based on hundreds of descriptive
texts, pictures and examples in order
to let you discover all the commands
and techniques necessary to realize
from simpler to more complex electrical
system designs.
Thanks to guided descriptions of all
available commands and detailed procedures,
you'll come to a deep knowledge of UNI-TOOL
CAD structures, and you'll be able to
take advantage of all their potential.
Totally developed
for Microsoft Windows®
User interface totally organized in
conformity with Microsoft Windows®
standards for the leading application-oriented
programs (Microsoft Word®, Microsoft
Excel®, etc.), a feature that makes
the program very easy-to-use.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PC
Pentium or higher, Microsoft Windows®
95/98 or NT ver. 4.0, 32 MB RAM (minimum),
50 MB free on hard disk, CD-ROM drive.
