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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Highlight Footcandle Levels Below a Certain Level
It would also be nice if foot candle levels less than a certain value could be a different color. This would make it easier to spot levels below a certain threshold, like fc levels for emergency egress lower limits.
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Command to Automatically Turn Photometric Layers On and Off
It would be nice to have ribbon menu icon commands to turn the photometric layers on and off as well as automatically turn the respective layer back on after doing a recalc of either general or egress lighting.
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Calculate General and Egress Photometrics in Same Boundary
It would be nice if we didn't need to create two photometric calculation areas. It would be great if one calc area could work for both general and egress calcs.
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Show Locked CFM in Duct Centerline
I have been back into DM after a short break away from it's use. I have found that text now appears along the center line referencing that the width, depth, or shape of the duct has been locked. This is a great new feature. However, I feel that one of the most important features that could be shown as locked is that of the CFM. In a quick duct sizing and CFM check, by locking the CFM of the end duct in the various branch strings, one can size and determine very quickly how a system is going to be.…
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Automatically Add a "Jog" When a Direct 90-degree Vertical at Wall Would Create an Overlap
Currently, when a Direct 90-degree Vertical at Wall returns back from the wall on top of the pipe going towards the wall, the pipe on top hides the underneath pipe. A common way of representing this in 2-D models is by adding a "jog" in the pipe. However, in the isometric model the jog doesn't need to appear because overlapping isn't a problem. Automatically showing this "jog" on the 2-D model would make representing these cases much easier.
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Different Layers for New and Existing Items in Schedules
Use different layers for new and existing circuits in panel schedules or new and existing equipment in equipment schedules.
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Vertical Alignment of Schedules
Add an option to control the vertical alignment of text in schedule cells.
Currently everything is justified to the top of the cell. Make it so that text can be centered or at the bottom instead.
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Selected device type to find that are uncircuited
Often I circuit items by device type, such as equipment first, then general receptacles, and finally lighting. Sometimes I only show the light fixtures or site lighting but don't ever circuit them as a lighting designer is taking that part of the contract. So under either situation if the symbols have already been placed and I do the “Highlight Uncircuited Devices” command, I get so many lines going all over the place that I can't find out which receptacles I haven't circuited. It would be nice under the Highlight Uncircuited Devices label you have a sub-selection of: Receptacle, Lights, Equipment,…
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Manufactured Wiring (Modular wiring) NEC 604
Add wiring and symbols for manufactured wiring systems (NEC 604), MWS, Reloc etc
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add sub-script option for junction boxes
Add subscript for junctions boxes like you did for low voltage devices.
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Choose Fittings Used In Pressure Drop Calculations
Add the ability to choose the specific fitting type used when calculating pressure drop in duct systems. Currently, the fitting type is fixed.
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Device information on hover
When you hover (or float) your mouse over a DM device, display information about that device in a tooltip.
For DM Electrical, possible information would include callout and circuit number
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When a panel is designated as existing, the circuit descriptions (editable part in the circuiting form) start off with "EX"
When a panel is designated as existing, the circuit descriptions (editable part in the circuiting form) start off with "EX"
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put alternating shading on successive rows in outputted html tables/reports
For example, when I print an HVAC load calculation report, the many row entries can be difficult to follow visually across the screen. This obviously won't be useful in absolutely every case, but an option to have a little bgcolor="#EEEEEE" every other line would be awesome.
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Find Unlooped Devices
A function similar to “Find Uncircuited” that finds elements that are circuited but have not been looped – “Find Unlooped” or something of that nature. I often am at risk of missing a dedicated receptacle or single equipment connection that I circuited, but missed when I was going through the looping/home run process.
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Same equipment in multiple drawings or areas
Right now I can put one-line devices on multiple drawings, but not equipment. Sometimes the equipment is so large such as a chiller that it needs to be seen on the site drawing at a different scale than the electrical plan view.
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Remember Zone Tree Settings
Remember which zones are opened and closed in the zone tree dialog box when you open and close it.
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Define data base location in directory other than project directory.
Give us the ability to specify directory location for the project data base rather than being forced to have the data base in the project directory. In a multi-tenant project if each tenant space is in a separate sub-directory you have to copy the building master data base to each sub-directory in order to work on that space. It is difficult to keep track of which tenant space has the most up to date project data base. In an earlier version of Designmaster, we had the ability to look for the data base in a directory above the specific project…
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More MCC Stater Sizes
Is it possible to modify the list of standard starter sizes to include VFD, Soft Switch, etc? Or even to choose 'None' and just type it in the Description field?
I've used the ddedit command on the MCC schedule inserted into the drawing to manually modify it, but if anybody does a coordination this will be lost.
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