Design Master Wish List
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Calculate feeder voltage drop base upon 80% of upstream breaker capacity
Add a line under voltage drop in the project options that says “Calculate feeder voltage drop base upon 80% of upstream breaker capacity”? In big warehouses we often have main lug only panels that the bussing is rated for more than the breaker feeding it because we need to increase the wire size for voltage drop. The panelboard needs to be larger so the increased wire size for voltage drop will fit the lugs of the panelboard.
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Support UCS coordinate systems for Labels
On large campus jobs the ability to support UCSs is needed. Autodesk Parallels like Plant3D do not allow for backgrounds to have different rotations. Common coordinate system must be used.
Seems like an easy tweak to the software as the North Arrow frameworks you already have built should be able to support this.1 vote -
voltage drop
Would like to have the ability at instance edit or circuit edit to be able to select load or 80% of breaker for the calculation in lieu of only having overall project level option.
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Make Link > Select from Model a separate button
When linking many items on large projects, the Link window can begin to slow down dramatically since it loads all the equipment in the project into the tree. It would be nice if we could use the Select from Model option without having to load the rest of the Link dialog box.
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Relink Detail Items copied to a new drafting view
Our risers are so large that we typically use multiple drafting views for each substation. When loads get refed from one substation to another, I need to cut and paste the transformers, the disconnects, and the panels to the second drafting view, then link all of them all over again. It would be nice if there was a re-link button I could use, where I just select all the items I have pasted then run the tool to re-link them all in one go.
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Count up or down from starting circuit number.
About 3 out of 10 times when I get an as built of mine or someone else’s drawings, the EC flips the panel so that 42 is at the top left and 1 is at the bottom right. I understand from other EC that it is perfectly legal. But it drives me crazy as I have to export the drawing and then manually update the circuits numbers in the schedule. Hoping it never comes back again for another As-built update. Many years ago, you added the feature of letting us start on a different number. Would really be helpful to…
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Custom voltage deop
We would like to know if you can set up custom voltage drop for feeder and branch circuit.
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SOLAR
Ability to accurately model solar PV power systems. We use a lot of 3 phase inverters in our designs due to PV system size, but PV modules are 48V. Can model using a transformer, but can only model single phase inverters, since the 48V power selector is only available for single phase. Need an updated power selector for 48V 3 phase or a dedicated modeling method for 3 phase inverters.
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Update Electrical One-line Diagram symbols
Up-date Electrical One-line Diagram to show Existing, Demo, New, and Future out of the box. My suggestion is listed below but I am open to other suggestions.
• Existing - gray thin solid lines
• Demo - black dashed medium lines
• New - black solid medium lines
• Future - gray solid medium lines6 votes -
damage/withstand curves
Add the ability to add Transformer and conductor damage curves to the selective coordination graphs in the same manner as OCP devices.
1 vote -
Circuit Comments
Add comments to circuits in the Circuit Edit command. Transfer the comment value to the circuit and to the devices connected to the circuit.
This feature would allow additional information from a circuit to be scheduled on the devices. It would be similar to how DM currently pushes the breaker size to from the circuit to the device that can then be used in equipment schedules.
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Batch link
Assign/Change link of multiple detail items based on matching panel name of 3D equipment. That way standard risers for certain building types can be reused more easily
3 votes -
Photometrics: Combined Results Table
For Photometrics:
Request ability to combine results from each calculation zone into one large table. We have numerous zones and that many tables are hard to manage and look through and is not how we present our final results.2 votes -
Allow export to 64-bit Excel
The title says it all. Excel integration is currently not compatible with the 64-bit version of Excel.
1 vote -
Improve Dynamic Load Calculations
Make several modifications to fine tune the dynamic load calculations at the bottom of a panel schedule.
- Add the units of 'KVA' to the 'TOTAL LOAD'
- Change the units of the BALANCED LOAD line from 'A' to 'AMPS'
- Place the units for those two lines in the same column as the demand percentages of the rows above to make more room for the TOTAL LOAD and BALANCED LOAD sums to display without wrapping the units to the next line.
- Change the lines under CONN KVA and CALC KVA to the SCHEDULE-MEDIUM layer instead of the SCHEDULE-HEAVY…2 votes -
reset
Would like it if we had the ability to reset all items we have overridden, even better if we could do it by category like wire size, breaker
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Printing One Line Blocks
Suggest new feature to print all one line diagram blocks (distribution, feeder, equipment, etc) used in a project's block schedule. Would be a great tool when setting up the master template.
1 vote -
One-Line Distribution Equipment "Wrapping". For printability
Often times MCC's have so many loads on them that once they are generated as a One-Line, they are too long and can no longer be printed without truncating off most of the loads for printing.
The current recommended solution is to divide the loads into MCC sections and then to connect them as sub-feeds to the parent MCC. This solution is convoluted and not easily scalable. True support of this fundamental need is requested.
I request a dedicated wrapping functionality that allows the user to select where on distribution equipment the user would like for the distribution equipment to…
7 votes -
Additional voltage drop power factor options
Ability to pick .9 and .95 for power factor in options for voltage drop calculations in addition to the two we have, .85 or Revit.
2 votes -
More flexible options for including room names in circuit descriptions
A few more options for circuit name based on space name please
• Don’t include space name
• Include space name and number
• Include space name1 vote
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