Design Master Wish List
Welcome to the Design Master Wish List, where you can submit your ideas for improvements to the software.
155 results found
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Size Transformer Feeders Differently than Other Feeders
Allow transformer feeders to be sized using different size wires than other feeders. In particular, this would be for sizing 800A feeders. Normal panels can use 500kcmil wires, but transformers require 600kcmil.
(The workaround for the moment is to use 500kcmil for your 800A automatic sizing and to manually size the transformers to 600kcmil.)
2 votes -
Set number of spare breakers
Add an option to require a set number of spare breakers on every panel. The other breakers in the panel would be listed as spaces.
11 votes -
Edit multiple rooms
Add a command to allow you to edit the settings on multiple rooms at a time.
10 votes -
Custom circuit description for spaces with no breakers
Have a custom circuit description that is automatically used when the breaker size is set to "None" for a circuit.
1 vote -
Dialog Boxes to View and Edit Load Calculation Settings for Entire Building at Once
Currently to view the ventilation and load schedules the report is run and appears in an html file. If for instance the outside air % is too high I then have to exit the report go back into the rooms with the high percentage and manually overventilate.
It would be great if there was a screen that combined all of the room information, areas, CFMs, etc. (similar to the load report) but this screen allowed you to manually modify the CFMs, system static pressure, outside air percentage, etc. and by doing this all of the room information is updated at…
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Label homeruns with feeder IDs
Label homeruns using feeder IDs like those used in the one-line diagram instead of full text wire callouts.
2 votes -
On a one-line diagram, a vertical bus panel should have horizontal branch breakers--NOT vertical!
When you generate a one-line diagram, if you have panels that have a vertical bus, their branch breakers end up at the bottom of the bus and are vertical. The look like main breakers--not branch breakers. A work around for this is for every vertical bus panel, generate a riser diagram starting with that panel. Even this work around is not perfect, as you have to resize the vertical bus and fiddle with the branch breaker.
3 votes -
Show schedule notes on last column when schedule is split
Currently if a schedule has a "Maximum Schedule Height" set the schedule notes are placed at the bottom of the first column. It would be better to place them at the bottom of the last column (or at least have an option to place them there) since the last column is often shorter than the others.
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Breaker Using Twice as Many Spaces
Many breaker panels of old and of new has the ability to put a single, two, or three pole breaker in that takes twice as many spaces as normal. Example is I have a panel I have to represent that has a 2 pole breaker that takes position 36-38 and 40-42. It also has a 3 pole breaker in it that take 24-26,28-30,32-34. I have no way of circuiting the device and still have it on phase A, B, and C.
5 votes -
please show velocity and PD/100ft
by showing velocity and PD/100ft on a check layer, engineers could check work and easily scan and review a job for errors.
4 votes -
Multiple Switch Legs on a Single Switch
Allow a single switch to have multiple switch legs associated with it. Currently we require a separate switch for each switch leg.
13 votes -
Backfeed Breakers
Be able to use a branch breaker on the panel as the main breaker.
1 vote -
3 votes
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Set room boundaries to also be light-obstructing rectangles for photometric analysis
It duplicates work to trace the boundaries of all rooms for energy analysis and circuit naming, then have to trace all the rooms again for photometric analysis. This would likely require the addition of a 'door' object to define places where light-obstructing boundaries would be ignored
2 votes -
Support feeder calcs for track lighting
See NEC 220.43(B). The connected load for the branch circuit is the sum of the wattage of the connected light fixtures. The demand load is an additional 150VA per foot. I would like a place to enter the number of feet of track on a branch circuit so the demand load is calculated correctly in the load summary. We currently accomplish this through a 'Variable Caclulated Load', but it might be more intuitive if there is a 'Length Variable Demand' option. Thank you.
2 votes -
Add Sections to Panels
Define how many breakers are in each section of panel. This would be used when creating a 84 circuit panel that is made up of 2 sections, each with 42 circuits.
For the panel schedule, include a separator between the sections.
When circuiting, do not allow 2 or 3 pole circuits to span the two sections.
12 votes -
Export the luminaire schedule into excel
I have lighting reps ask me all the time for an excel spreadsheet of our luminaire schedule. It would be helpful to export our luminaire schedule into excel.
9 votes -
Fewer Tick Marks and Circuit Labels on Combined Homeruns
Have an option for combined homeruns that will display tick marks and a circuit callout on the loop where the circuits change.
For example, if you have a circuit like this:
<-----(1)------(1)------(3)------(3)
It would insert a circuit label and tick marks between the devices on circuit 1 and 3.
P-1,3<-----(1)------(1)---3--(3)------(3)
1 vote -
RV Park and Marina Branch Circuit Calculations
For RV Parks and Marinas, be able to model the pedestals or shore power receptacles as equipment connections, and use the feeder calculations on the branch circuits for breaker sizing and voltage drop purposes.
1 vote -
Simpler way to Change fonts in all your panel/switch box schedules
Right now, one has to edit all the blocks of a panel schedule in order to simply change the font. There should be a way to set the preferred font for all these schedules. If there is a way, I don't know about it. When I first set up DM 10 years or so ago, I do not remember having to change every block, but it's been so long ago...
3 votes
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