ECAV by Symbol Logic

Symbol Logic's ECAV (Engineering Complete AV) software offers a highly effective, dedicated drawing solution for the design, wiring, engineering, and building of any AV project. It’s a powerful yet affordable and easy-to-use AV drawing suite using Microsoft Visio Professional. Created by Integrators from decades of time-tested real-world design and installation experience to provide unmatched AV drawings and documents.

ECAV includes many automated features that empower commercial and residential system designers, integrators, and installation firms to create precise AV drawings quickly with very little setup, database management or training. Regardless of the application or market, ECAV results will always be professional, high-quality, common-sense, and easy-to-read drawings with all the necessary detail to support sales, proposals, installation, control-system programming, and system service.

The ECAV Project Phase Drawing Process

Each ECAV drawing page type is purposefully designed to correspond to its project phase allowing you to provide the required documents before its project phase begins.

Project Setup:

Title Page - Company and project information.

Enter new project information on the title page’s data window. This automatically adds project information on the title page and title blocks of each drawing page.

Design:

AV Floor Plan Page(s) - Conveys to all project stakeholders the conceptual design and location of all key AV devices on the property.

From the seventeen ECAV system category symbol libraries, design the project layout by dropping symbols on the client’s architectural floor plan. As with all ECAV symbols, these symbols can then be linked to product data, transformed into other symbol types (Copy Shapes feature), and stored for future use.

Symbols on any of the drawing pages can represent specific real-world products. ECAV makes it easy to link your symbols to the provided example spreadsheet of product specification data. Just add new data rows for your products, refresh the data, and link to your device symbols on any of the drawings. The linked symbols are used for visualizing the data in your drawings and running important project reports.

Wire:

Block Diagram Page - Quickly provides a full system overview drawing with prewire schedules, wire labeling, BoMs and headend size, AC power, and ventilation requirements before the installation begins.

Build the one-page, full-system block diagram by simply naming the pre-made headends, rooms and areas and then dropping and connecting devices and block wires into the named spaces. Finally add headend devices and wire group symbols to automatically configure the room’s block wires.