To Manually Route Cable
Manual cable
routing is option for cables that have failed auto routing due to insufficient
raceway capacity. For example if maximum fill factor for raceway is set to 30%
and adding additional cable will increase it to 31% it is still acceptable, but
that cable will have to be routed manually.
- Open the Cable Manager and select a cable.
- Click the Select/Route Raceway option from ribbon menu.
- The following options are available when adding a route:
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Select the
Route Raceway option.
M1 and MCC1 are highlighted as source and target equipment. Notice that only some raceway is displayed as available for route selection. Only raceway of proper voltage level is available for selection, all other raceway display is turned off to avoid confusion.
- Select the raceway routing line closest to MCC1.
- Next, select the raceway routing line closest to M1.
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Click a data point anywhere in Routing.DGN file.
Cable manager is back in focus and all raceway segments between source and target are selected
- To visualize a cable select it and select Visualize from the ribbon menu.
- Select Update Length from ribbon menu cables tool group to update the cable length before creating any reports.