Best Electrical Design Software

Compare the Top Electrical Design Software as of October 2026

What is Electrical Design Software?

Electrical design software is a specialized CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tool used to create, visualize, and document electrical systems for buildings, machinery, and industrial equipment. It enables engineers to develop detailed wiring diagrams, circuit layouts, and control panel designs with precision. The software includes features like load analysis, error detection, and compliance checks to ensure systems meet safety and regulatory standards. By automating repetitive tasks and supporting design revisions, it boosts efficiency and reduces the likelihood of costly errors. Electrical design software is essential in industries like construction, manufacturing, and automation, where accurate electrical planning is critical. Compare and read user reviews of the best Electrical Design software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SafeGrid Earthing

    SafeGrid Earthing

    Electrotechnik

    SafeGrid Earthing Software is apt for earthing systems designs. The software performs accurate, finite elements based calculations. SafeGrid Earthing software is proven, affordable and easy to use. The software calculates grid resistance, touch and step voltages and lightning protection for substations. The software is helping industries for the last ten years. The software includes all the modules you need for performing a safe earthing system design in the safe grip. It includes: Fault current distribution. Soil modelling. Build grid. Safety criteria. Safe results. Along with the software, you get support from our earthing expert engineers. SafeGrid Earthing software that saves you time and money for your projects.
    Starting Price: $9,900 for a perpetual license
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    AutoCAD Electrical
    Efficiently create, modify, and document electrical controls systems with an industry-specific toolset for electrical design. Generate and update customized reports. Easily share DWG™ drawings with stakeholders. Use folders to organize drawings and reorder files for electrical drafting projects. Publish schematics to multipage PDFs. Reduce errors with automatic numbers for wires and tags for components. Use Circuit Builder for simple electrical design. Select from a rich library of electrical symbols. Catch problems before the build phase begins. Keep track of parent/child contacts in real-time. Define a project's I/O assignments. Enhanced preview and direct component insertion. Integrated mechatronics solution with Inventor. Coil and contact cross-referencing, PLC I/O drawings from spreadsheets, catalog browser for parts, real-time error checking, electrical schematic symbol libraries, circuit design and reuse, wire numbering, component tagging, and more.
    Starting Price: $220 per month
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    Cable High Voltage

    Cable High Voltage

    Electrotechnik

    Electrotechnik introduces Cabe High Voltage software for easy and accurate cable-rating calculation. A wide range of insulation conditions gets covered In Air and Groups in Air, Direct Buried or In-Ducts, Bonding Arrangements and Buried in Thermal Backfill. Custom cables get modelled from data sheets using the graphical cable model editor. There is a vast database of pre-modelled tables. The cable bonding arrangements get changed between solid with or without regular transition. In the transient module, you can determine the emergency and cyclic rating of single-core and multi-core circuits. The CHV software has modules to calculate short-circuit rating and magnetic fields intensity. Comprehensive directive PDF reports can get easily generated. We offer technical support from our experienced engineers at every step.
    Starting Price: $9,900 for a perpetual license
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    ElectricalOm

    ElectricalOm

    Modecsoft

    MODECSOFT is a software house specialised in developing high-quality and easy-to-use software tools. We are dedicated to providing specialised software solutions, developing high performance tools for the needs of the building industry and custom applications for the business. Modecsoft ElectricalOM is a Powerful, Fast & Accurate Software for Low Voltage Electrical Design, Modeling and Certification. Calculations and Checks Compliance with BS 7671:2018 , Harmonized with IEC 60364. Our Software is Compliant with BS7671:2018 - 18th Edition. ElectricalOM will continue supporting 17th Edition. The Autodesk Revit ® - ElectricalOM synchronization tool provides Electrical Engineers and Designers the flexibility to synchronize their Revit Electrical Data with ElectricalOM allowing BS7671 Calculations to be applied in the Autodesk Revit Building Information Models and also to Auto-Create Schematic Diagrams.
    Starting Price: $645
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    E3.series
    A comprehensive electrical and fluid planning software environment for advanced requirements. E3.series is a true concurrent electrical engineering environment supporting advanced requirements for electrical documentation, cabinet and wire harness design and manufacturing outputs. E3.series facilitates an efficient and accurate design and manufacturing process for electrical and fluid planning, cable planning, and wire harness and cabinet layout. Its object-oriented architecture provides an integrated and consistent design approach to help eliminate errors, improve quality and reduce design time. Consistency of all design phases through object orientation. Powerful automated operations and electrical checks. Comprehensive outputs for manufacturing and documentation. Native format library and design data management. Circuit diagrams, connection lists, layout plans and reports always up-to-date and synchronized.
    Starting Price: £80/€90/CHF110 per month
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    Cadison E&I Designer
    CADISON E&I Designer is a brainchild of unparalleled engineering experience and technological expertise of Electrical Engineers & Developers based on Object Oriented Technology. It has been developed with a mission of improving the electrical engineering efficiency and focusing more on project lifecycle challenges like change management, centralized documentation process, real-time updates, and true unification of information & data with graphics. Scalability and customization are two important pillars of CADISON E&I Designer with which its adoption to your business model and system becomes easy and effortless. Our mission is the accomplishment of accuracy, speed and in-time project completion for our Users. How CADISON Team has something different to Offer.
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    Ansys Exalto
    Ansys Exalto is a post-LVS RLCk extraction software solution that enables IC designers to accurately capture unknown crosstalk among different blocks in the design hierarchy by extracting lumped-element parasitics and generating an accurate model for electrical, magnetic and substrate coupling. Exalto interfaces with most LVS tools and can complement the RC extraction tool of your choice. Ansys Exalto post-LVS RLCk extraction lets IC designers accurately predict electromagnetic and substrate coupling effects for signoff on circuits that were previously "too big to analyze.” The extracted models are back-annotated to the schematic or netlist, and support all circuit simulators. The proliferation of RF and high-speed circuits in modern silicon systems has raised electromagnetic coupling to a first order effect that must be accurately modeled to reliably achieve silicon success.
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    CR-8000 Design Force
    Break down the boundaries of your electrical design process with Design Force, a true innovation in system-level IC package and PCB design and analysis. As the process for designing a complete product continues to increase in complexity, it often includes technologies that have become difficult and sometimes impossible for most ECAD tools to manage and address. Design Force provides the ability for design teams to take system-level design information from as early as the conceptual and planning phase and layout each board in the product, simultaneously considering the entire system view. Design Force fully leverages the latest industry hardware and software capabilities, allowing users to design in a native 3D environment, obtaining optimal performance by utilizing native 64-bit, multi-threading, multi-core processors. Design Force supports multiple client-server implementations and includes the ability to work from your corporate cloud.
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    AVEVA Electrical and Instrumentation
    Create instrumentation and electrical drawings, schematics, data sheets. Integrate with ETAP for detailed calculation and 3D for cable routing. AVEVA Electrical and Instrumentation delivers real-time collaboration between the electrical and instrumentation project disciplines. Data and high-quality deliverables are shared delivering accuracy and efficiency from the front-end to the detailed design phases of a project. AVEVA Electrical and instrumentation has been designed to make life easier for your engineers, and ultimately add value to your business. The product shares the same platform as AVEVA Unified Engineering and can be configured with third-party tools, making it flexible and efficient to deliver projects effectively. Providing data accuracy and the assurance your business is fully compliant with the latest standards. Have greater confidence in your engineering data ensuring a right-first-time methodology.
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    ETAP Software
    ETAP® is a full spectrum analytical engineering software company specializing in the analysis, simulation, monitoring, control, optimization, and automation of electrical power systems. ETAP electrical engineering software offers the best and most comprehensive suite of integrated power system enterprise solution.
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    EVOLVE Electrical
    The savviest detailing departments leverage technology to accomplish more work in less time. EVOLVE Electrical software creates an easy-to-use Revit experience for our end user and produces a level of accuracy that is needed to efficiently fabricate and construct your projects. From constructible BIM workflows to automated spooling, EVOLVE Electrical gives companies the tools they need to finish projects on time and within budget.
    Starting Price: $3,500
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    Ansys RaptorH
    Ansys RaptorH is an electromagnetic modeling software with capacity to model power grids, full custom blocks, spiral inductors, and clock trees. Its high-speed distributed processing delivers accurate, silicon-proven S-parameter and RLCk models. RaptorH can analyze partial and unfinished layouts during the design phase and makes it easy to use either the general purpose HFSS engine or the silicon-optimized RaptorX engine for silicon structures. Ansys RaptorH extracts electromagnetic models at the pre-LVS stage for arbitrary routing and layout, including planes (solid or perforated), round shapes, spiral inductors, and MiM/MoM capacitors - with automatic setting of boundary conditions. The GUI allows point-and-click net selection and what-if analyses. RaptorH is supported by all major silicon foundries and can read encrypted technology files to set up analyses with either the HFSS or the Raptor engine.
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    Ansys RedHawk-SC
    Ansys RedHawk-SC is the industry’s trusted gold standard voltage drop and electromigration multiphysics sign-off solution for digital designs. Its powerful analytics quickly identify any weaknesses and allow what-if explorations to optimize power and performance. Redhawk-SC’s cloud-based architecture gives it the speed and capacity to handle full-chip analysis. Signoff accuracy is certified by all major foundries for all finFET nodes, down to 3nm. Ansys RedHawk-SC enables robust, low-power digital designs without performance loss thanks to advanced power analytics that give designers comprehensive techniques to detect and correct dynamic voltage drop. Ansys RedHawk-SC’s trusted multiphysics signoff analysis is a powerful way to reduce project and technology risk. RedHawk’s algorithms are certified accurate by all major foundries for all finFET processes and are proven in thousands of tapeouts.
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    Bechtle PLM

    Bechtle PLM

    Bechtle PLM

    Bechtle PLM is a comprehensive product-lifecycle-management solution and service concept that helps businesses accelerate their time-to-market by strengthening the network of individual business segments and optimizing how they work together. It goes beyond core PLM components of design, production, and replacement parts management by offering a holistic approach that considers the entire IT landscape, including hardware, infrastructure, software, business applications such as BI, CRM, ERP, CAD, PDM, CAM, DMS/ECM, and AI, to create an integrated, turnkey PLM environment. The solution supports all lifecycle phases from beginning-of­-life (product and design development), through middle-of­-life (supplier collaboration, warranty, and product information management), to end-of­-life (recycling, disposal, remarketing) and enables parallel development stages, improved information quality, reduced reliance on physical prototypes, and faster response times.
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