Cable Schedules

Cable schedules, Equipment Lists, Cable searches and more from your CAD wiring drawings automatically, quickly and accurately. Cable schedules include connector and cable details as well as a changelog for each connection.Netbox Integration. Sync your CAD and your DCIM. Migrate your CAD to Netbox. Or both.Cable Scheduler is an alternative to ConnectCAD, VidCAD, D-Tools, Star Draw etc.Cable Scheduler is a Windows app,
it's not in the Cloud, not on a server,
it runs securely on your computer.
Your Data stays on Your Computer.

Works with Your CAD Dwgs

Does Cable Scheduler do CAD?
Nope. You do the CAD drawings in your CAD (any DWG app) and Cable Scheduler does the rest, the boring stuff. You can open your CAD from here, just double-click the drawing you want to open.

Does it need AutoCAD?

Nope. Everything Cable Scheduler needs is built-in.You don't even need Excel to create cable schedules.

Works with Netbox

Yes, you can sync your CAD drawings with your Netbox DCIM. Soon. This is still in development but, as you can see here, it works for Devices.The Equipment tab looks like this too, without the Netbox columns. You can filter any column just like in Excel, and export to Excel.
Anywhere you see a table like this, it can be exported to Excel.

There is also a companion CAD plugin for Netbox operations directly in your Drawings.Also on my roadmap are Cables, Changes syncing between Netbox and your Drawings (Cable Scheduler has a ChangeLog too), building CAD blocks from the Netbox Device Type library.Also coming soon - building a CAD Device Type library from your drawings and the blocks in them.

Your Data is Yours.
Database admin
is not your problem

Do you need  install SQL Server and do DBAdminOhNoooo?
Nope, it just works.You are not locked out of your database, you can query it to your heart's content. Cable Scheduler uses SQLite, the most widely-used database engine in the known universe. Here's a free SQLite browser I use all the time: https://sqlitebrowser.org/. LinqPad is also awesomeThere's Database and Project Snapshots (backups) with one click of a button, etc., if you like. Or you can just pretty-much ignore that.

Support for all the Things

Don't panic, you're not expected to know how all these things work. That's what your support is for, CADbloke will sort that out for you. Cable Scheduler is a one-on-one supported system, you're not on your own here.Your Support includes regular software updates and, of course, user suggestions and bug-fixes. If something breaks, Sentry usually tells me - I've got your back.For the adventurous, there's documentation at https://www.help.cablescheduler.com but I'm just an email away.Your usual day will involve updating a few drawings, opening Cable Scheduler and clicking the Big Green Excel button to generate a new Cable Schedule. Yup, that's it, one click.

Have we got a Video ?

Yes, we've got a video. This is an old one, starting from an empty project and zooming around a few of the example drawings for one of the drawing formats it supports. I drag-dropped the drawings from Windows Explorer into the Dwg tab to add them to the Project and Database. Your normal daily operation is from about 40 seconds in when I clicked the Big Green Excel Button, then I zoomed the mouse around a cable schedule too fast for you to see the different highlighting for cables that may have problems, are new, deleted etc. There's no audio so you won't annoy everyone in earshot.

Cable Scheduling since 2007

I have been working on Cable Scheduler since before 2007 (yes, really, that long). I use it myself  in my day-job as the CAD bloke at Foxtel and Fox Sports (and lots of others). It has evolved a whole host of workflows and features in that time. It's a very mature bit of software (more than 2,200 Git commits and 4,400 builds, if that means anything to you).I make other CAD-related software too like https://www.cadreplace.com/

but wait, there's more

How does automating the off-sheet references to other drawings sound? Once I set it up for you, getting information for connections on other drawings is one click away. Yup, Big Green Button.

You can even see what will change in the text. That trick is from my AutoCAD / BricsCAD plugin at https://www.CADreplace.comAnd here's a similar thing for jackfield labels in development too. It works on my machine and it can work on yours too.

Cable Scheduler software used by Foxtel, Fox Sports, ABC TV Australia, Telstra Broadcast, Techtel, NEP, MediaHub, Magna and others to parse the data from their wiring CAD drawings to create cable schedules and other data - automatically with one click. The automated Cable Schedules are 100% accurate - and fast, seconds for a few drawings, a couple of minutes for 60,000 cables .Cable Scheduler never gets bored, sick, distracted, or takes holidays. But it will tell you what's going on and back-chat you if there's something wrong - that's what the Notifications tab is.Cable Schedule automates a very tedious, very error-prone task in seconds and checks your work, freeing you and your mind to do productive thinking.

Interested ?

Questions ?

email CAD bloke right here...Or if you're not a fan of forms (or if the spam-blocker gets a bit overzealous),
I'm Ewen @ this website.

Thank you!

CAD bloke (Ewen) will be in touch asap.