Design Master Wish List
Welcome to the Design Master Wish List, where you can submit your ideas for improvements to the software.
71 results found
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password protect the master database to prevent accidental changes
It is too easy for anyone to select "Copy to Master" and make a mess of the master database.
7 votes -
Add spell check option for schedules.
ACAD spell check does not update Design Master Schedules. ACAD spell check needs to be run every time a schedule is updated.
7 votes -
Low-voltage looping
Be able to draw loops between devices for low-voltage lines, for connecting items like sensors and power packs.
6 votes -
Add Standard UPC and IPC Sizing Charts
Especially for waste and vent sizing, the conversion from fixture units to pipe sizing is standard for all cases for the UPC and IPC. Generating sizing charts for cold and hot water, automatically through a series of settings possibly, would be probably more difficult to implement but equally helpful to make sizing plumbing easier.
6 votes -
Low Voltage Homerun With Keynote
On low voltage systems drawings (Fire Alarm, Security, CCTV) we treat homeruns differently than power and lighting homeruns. We do not use the circuit label, wire callout, or tick marks, but rather we use a keynote. If there was a “keynote homerun”, it would save us the time spent removing the wire call-out every time we create low voltage homerun.
6 votes -
Be able to add disconnects to equipment so they work similar to Design Master Electrical in AutoCAD
We need a way to link two family instances together so that when you update one of the instances it updates the other.
5 votes -
Unique ID for all Feeders and Branch Circuits
Have a way to make a unique cable ID for every feeder, branch circuit and low voltage circuit. For example P-MCC1-001 for the power cable fed from MCC1 or PT-FLOWGAS-003 for a pressure transmitter.
I'm working on a big industrial plant where I need a have a cable number for every cable in the plant.
I would like to have the ID on the one line, plan view drawing and export to Excel.
5 votes -
Plumbing and Piping Fixtures
Be able to create plumbing and piping fixtures, similar to light fixture or receptacles in DM Electrical or diffusers in DM HVAC.
5 votes -
Create Room Outlines Automatically
Detect room boundaries from the architect's XREF automatically and create rooms based upon it.
5 votes -
Different layer systems for different loops and tick marks on a circuit
We can assign layers based on one-line (panel) or circuit or devices however not all parts of circuit are on the same layer. I may run some in the slab and some in the walls. Having the ability toi use the manual loop tool to change the layer system would be helpful. Also having the ability to assign a device to multiple layers would be helpful as well.
Or have some of the loops new and some existing.
5 votes -
Selective Coordination
Comply with NEC Article 700 requirements for selective coordination of overcurrent protective devices in the supply side of emergency system.
5 votes -
Incorporate adjustable trip breakers
Add the ability to specify breakers with electronic trip units (ETUs), aka adjustable trip breakers, in Design Master projects.
The intent of adding this capability would be to allow the user to flag where an ETU is used and display the required/desired settings.
It would NOT be the intent to make DM have the functionality to do the coordination studies necessary to develop the settings.
1) Electronic trip breakers, when used, are usually MCBs or feeder breakers with the following characteristics:
Breaker Frame (AF)
Breaker trip (AT)
Breaker plug size (AP)*Long-time pickup (LTPU)
Long-time delay (LTD)
Short-time pickup (STPU) …4 votes -
New / Existing Pipe Connection Graphics
When connecting a new waste pipe to an existing pipe, draw the chamfer between the two using the new layer system (not the existing layer system as it currently does).
4 votes -
Edit Multiple Types of Devices
Create an "Edit Multiple" command to works on all types of devices. Include only attributes that are common to all types of devices: layer system, elevation.
4 votes -
SI units
SIngle button to change from IP to SI in a drawing.
4 votes -
Show conduit runs with schedules
Be able to show conduits feeder runs on their own layer with up and down riser symbols. Then be able to create a conduit schedule.
4 votes -
Copy and Increment Across Drawings
Improve the "Copy and Increment" command to work across drawings. Make it easier to move everything from one panel to a different panel on the copied devices.
4 votes -
Copy panel and loads to new project
Be able to copy panels and other distribution from one project to another. The loads on the panel will be created as fixed loads in the new project.
3 votes -
Diffuser Airflow Patterns
HVAC diffusers have air flow patterns much like light fixtures have photometric patterns.
Air Diffuser manufacturers supply the pattern shapes and provide the distances in feet for airflow velocities at 150FPM, 100FPM and 50FPM for heating and cooling.
Is there a way you can give the DM user the ability to insert their own airflow pattern (through a formatted file input) with contour lines similar to DM photo metrics?
This would be DM's start into Computational Fluid Dynamics.
3 votes -
A spreadsheet like table, simular to the fault calculations, that shows all the load calculation fields by panel, as they move to the final
A spreadsheet like table, similar to the fault calculations, that shows all the load calculation categories by panel, as they move to the final service calculation. We could then turn the load calculation footer off on the panel schedules and include this summary table in the drawings. It would also be great to figure out how the loads are adding up.
3 votes
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