Bentley Raceway and Cable Management CONNECT Edition Help

To Route Cable to a Raceway

Before cables can be auto routed, auto connect tool has to be used first ( cables will have length displayed if auto connect tool is used), and auto routing entry points have to be verified and confirmed that each equipment has raceways selected either by bounding sphere ( Max Distance) or by using the Include option.
  1. Open the drawing Routing.dgn.
  2. Start the Cable Manager (Detail Design).
  3. Select Collaboration Manager from ribbon and check out the cable resources.
  4. Select all Cables by clicking on the Check Box in the Upper left corner of the data grid and select, the Auto Routing Entry Points from the ribbon menu. This will allow you to visually check the entry points going into each connect point.
  5. In Cable Manager, select all Cables by clicking on the Check Box in the Upper left corner of the data grid and select AutoConnect from the ribbon menu.
  6. Click Auto Route button from the ribbon menu.
    Note: If the length for specific cables does not populate, it's an indication that the cable cannot be routed because of a design issue.
  7. Once cable routing is completed results will be displayed.
  8. In AutoRouting status column the system displays whether the autoroute has worked (Success) or didn't work (Failed).
    Note: If Cable has failed automatic routing then Routing info column will display the reason for failure
  9. For auto routed cables length is automatically updated .
  10. To preview cable route select cable and from ribbon menu select option Visualize.
  11. Close the Cable Manager.