Design Master Wish List
Welcome to the Design Master Wish List, where you can submit your ideas for improvements to the software.
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Negative Equipment Loads for Open Cases in Grocery Stores
Grocery stores include open refrigeration cases. These loads need to be subtracted from the cooling load and added to the heating load. Using a negative equipment load works for the cooling load, but not the heating load.
Make it so that a negative equipment load is added to the heating load.
5 votesThis will be included in Design Master HVAC 7.1.
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Smarter feeder lengths from plan view blocks
Currently, when two plan view blocks, for example a panel and subpanel, are very close (say 1 foot apart), the feeder length may be as much as 16 feet. Electricians often ask if they need to add extra length to meet short ckt calc. Of course, one can manually adjust the length in the panel definition, but one should not have to. It should be assumed that this will be a nipple 1 foot long - not run under ground and back up. DM adds 10 feet to each feeder.
3 votesWe added an option to DM Electrical 8.2 for feeders shorter than a certain length to not add the additional feeder length.
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Edit multiple equipment/panels/devices
This would be helpful when changing the voltage of a group of lights or panels on a project. It would also be helpful when adding a standard note to the bottom of all of the panels. It would be nice not to have to change the note, click next, change the note, click next.. etc.
8 votesEdit multiple for most devices was added in DM Electrical 8.3. Edit multiple for panels will be added in DM Electrical 8.4.
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Photometrics becoming bigger and better
Its a great and amazing feature to be able to do photo metrics right in AutoCAD. Along the same lines of how great DM works in AutoCAD. But if there was a way to make it work more precise and user friendly. Be able to implement some of the same features of Visual and AGI would be amazing. Making it your one shop stop do doing photo calcs etc. One thing that would be great to is if it could utilize the IES files and auto populate some of the light fixture specs.
10 votesFinished for DM Electrical 8.2. See comments for more info.
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Display tick marks for #10 wires
Display tick marks instead of wire callouts on all homeruns in a projects (not just for wires that are #12).
Make it so that P-7 (the Yes column & No row) in this image gets tick marks:
http://www.designmaster.biz/support/blog/2010/08/homerun-wire-callout-and-tick-mark-options/3 votesThis was added in a previous release. In Options, go to “Homeruns and Loops→Homerun wire callouts and tick marks” and set it to “Tick marks for all homeruns”.
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Add the ability to customize the "EDIT ONELINE DEVICE LABELS" for all devices.
Add the ability to customize the "EDIT ONE-LINE DEVICE LABELS" for all each type of one-line device. When inserting devices into the one-line we need to add the same prefix and suffix to each device. As an example we add prefix CONNECTED and suffix KVA to each panel to show the connected KVA.
3 votesThis will be included in Design Master Electrical 8.4.
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Choosing VA instead of KVA (Panelboard Schedules)
You've seen our panelboard schedules and it would be great to have the same options we show on ours to be able to show on the customized blocks in DM. Being able to display total VA of Left & Right phase and then total (Sum of both Left and Right in VA). Connected load total in VA. Being able to display Project name on Panel schedule. I love some of the options we don't show that I can include. So please keep what you have to add some more attributes.
1 voteAdded for DM Electrical 8.2. Includes options for kVA, VA, or amps.
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Add Aluminum Wire Option
With the price of copper so high we use aluminum wire for feeders on jobs that are over budget.
1 voteThis is currently possible in DM Electrical 7.3.5, it is just a matter of having the right wire sizing options defined in your customization. See this support blog post for more info on loading the aluminum table we entered if you don’t have it:
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Make a Zone Map Similar to the Load Maps
Make a color shaded zone map simlar to load map.
10 votesThis is completed for DM HVAC 7.2.
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Add tag to feeder schedules
by using tags on feeder schedules, you tie your predefined feeders into your one line and eliminate the busy appearance of long string of text for wire/conduit sizes on the one line. If done in the wire sizing tables it would allow common feeder combinations to be built one time and put into a feeder schedule table
5 votesThis will be included in DM Electrical 8.2.
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Add footnotes at the bottom of schedules, to allow common notes to be listed/identified with a char
Add footnotes at the bottom of schedules, to allow common notes to be listed/identified with a character in the notes section. This would save typing the same notes every time and shorten the space required for them. The same idea could work for mech equipment.
4 votesAll schedules have a “Notes” field that is inserted below them that can be used for this purpose. The default note can be set up in the standards database.
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Print Panel Schedules to Place Inside Panels
Add a command to print panel schedules that can be placed inside panels. The panel schedule will have options to include some basic information in the header, and then list each circuit and the load description.
The width of the panel schedule will be variable to accommodate the various size sleeves that panels come with.
27 votesThis feature will be included in Design Master Electrical 8.4.
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Import Multiple Items from Master Schedule
When importing items from the master schedule to the project schedule using the "Import from Master Schedule" button, allow multiple items to be selected and imported at once. (Currently you are limited to importing one item or all of the items.)
3 votesThis will be included in DM Electrical 8.2, DM HVAC 7.2, and DM Plumbing 3.2.
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Different Connection Options for Different Types of Diffusers
Have the "Diffuser Connection Settings" be able to be set based upon airflow type. For example, supply ducts always connect with flexible and return ducts connect with hard.
1 voteThis is completed for DM HVAC 7.3.
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Pressure Labels on Ductwork
Add a button to label the pressure drop for a run of duct (the "Pressure Drop in this Section" value from the the "Query Duct" window). We use DM HVAC to do a lot of existing ductwork analysis for energy audits, etc., and we could really use a function that shows us how much pressure drop each section of the ductwork has, and the pressure drop for each fitting, in much the same format as the ductwork size labels currently appear.
1 voteThe new pressure drop schedule in DM HVAC 7 should satisfy this request.
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Universal update button
This button would update all schedules, panels and one lines with one click. Currently going through each schedule option and then during review only finding out you missed one is agonizing. Update drawing and database does NOT do this.
1 voteWe agree. There is a new command called “Update All Schedules and One-Line Diagram” in DM Electrical 8.0 that does exactly this.
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1 vote
This will be included in DM Plumbing 3.0.
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Change Fixture Tags as a part of "Edit Multiple Fixtures".
When "Editing Multiple Fixtures", the fixture in the database is changed, but the fixture tag is not changed in the drawing. It would be good for this to change automatically, similar to the attributes of "edit multiple receptacles" so that each fixture tag does not have to be edited manually.
2 votesThis is implemented in Design Master Electrical 8.1.
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HVAC Material Takeoff
Extract duct sizes and quantities from the HVAC database.
We're not exactly sure how this should work, so if you vote for this, leave a comment letting us know what information you would like displayed.
11 votesA final version of this, including fitting counts, will be included in DM HVAC 7.3.
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Edit Multiple Equipment and Equipment Navigation
Add a new "Edit Multiple Equipment" command. You can select multiple pieces of equipment either from a list in the database or from the drawing. You can then make changes to all the selected equipment at once.
Add "Find", "Next", and "Previous" buttons to the equipment dialog box that work like in the panel or schedule dialog boxes.
42 votesThis will be included in DM Electrical 8.3.
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