Because of the independence of design and configuration，consistency problems frequently occur in design and configuration information.Compared with the conventional substation design，in the smart substation design，communication network and virtual terminal configuration workload is large，and fairly high requirements are made on the design of IEC61850knowledge.As design and configuration information cannot be effectively shared，there exists tremendous repetitive work.A solution of embedding the auxiliary design function module in the general design software AutoCAD is proposed.The idea of having configuration integrated with design consists in having the substation specification description（SCD）files and cable lists output at the same time the design drawings are output，resolving the above problems.