1. A computer system for converting a computer aided design drawing file of an electrical power system into one or more component objects for power analytic analysis and simulation, the computer system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor, the memory configured to maintain a computer aided design drawing parser, an import engine, and a symbol classification engine; a display device coupled to the processor and configured for displaying the computer aided design drawing file of the electrical power system; and the processor being operative to: execute instructions within the import engine to control the import of the computer aided design drawing file to the memory, execute instructions within the computer aided design drawing parser to control the parsing of the computer aided design drawing file into at least one component object containing a component symbol, and execute instructions within the symbol classification engine to control the assigning of a component classification to the component symbol.