Enhanced Raceway ID tools
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The following enhancements have been made to
the Raceway ID tool to enhance labeling workflows and save design time:
- Ability to
delete raceway IDs in the
Raceway ID tool.
- Existing Raceway
IDs are now populated in the name field of the Raceway ID dialog, so the values
can be further edited.
- The
tool
now highlights the entire raceway segment instead of just the
INFOLINE.
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New SDK featuring Raceway and Equipment
APIs
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You can now take advantage of a more
comprehensive SDK to create your own custom tools and automate your design
process. The new SDK enables you to do the following:
- Place Equipment
(Previously implemented).
- Get and modify
Equipment properties / user-defined attributes (UDA).
- Replace
equipment.
- Delete
equipment.
- Place Raceway
straights and parts.
- Get and modify
System, Catalog, and Raceway properties / user-defined attributes (UDA).
- Change/Replace
Raceway types and sizes.
- Delete Raceway.
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PlantSight Integration
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You now have the option to persist project
data inside an iModel in
PlantSight as an
alternative to a SQL Server database which provides the following benefits:
- Facilitates
distributed engineering workflows, allowing users from different offices to
collaborate and efficiently perform cable routing on the same project.
- No SQL Server
database is required, meaning less IT maintenance to administrate projects.
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New Convenient and Expedient Parametric Content
Creation Tool
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A new
Parametric
Content Creation tool is added to the
Manage ribbon menu in the
Project Setup group, which provides a
user-friendly interface for defining complex equipment, raceway components, and
supports that doesn't require scripting expertise. You can select from various
3D elements and specify sizes, positions, and rotation through a tree
structured interface to build complex components that perform well in a 3D
model.
The parametric components you create are stored in an XML
format using
.pmd file and can be used by the
following tools:
- Raceway Content
Creation tool allows you to select the
.pmd files you have created to be
used as part of a raceway system.
-
Equipment
Manager allows you to select and place
.pmd parametric files. This
equipment can not include multiple connection points in cases where cables may
enter the equipment at different locations.
- New
Support Placement tool allows you to place
.pmd parametric files which can
represent multiple bracket support systems for example,
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New Parametric Support Placement Tool
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A new
Parametric
Support Placement tool is added to the
Raceway ribbon
menu in the
Supports group. This tool utilizes the
new
.pmd parametric supports with the
ability to directly attach the supports to the ceiling or floor with a simple
setting, making it fast and easy to place multiple supports.
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Support for Multiple Connection Points on
Equipment
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You can add
multiple connection
points to equipment using the new
Parametric Content Creation tool. You
can use the
"Point" primitive and set its type to
"ConnectionPoint." In essence, this feature
adds junction boxes as additional connection points to the equipment. The cable
list should then refer to the IDs of these connections, which would be
automatically labeled as:
"(equipment ID)+ (Name property of Point node in
POB file)." The cable routing would then identify which connection point to
route a cable to.
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Support for Cable Ladder with Round Rung
Profile
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Using the new
Parametric Content Creation tool, you
can define round shaped cable ladder rungs that were previously impossible.
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New Content
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The following raceway content is added to
the software:
- Oglaend FTE 50
Cable Trays
- Oglaend FTE 80
Cable Trays
- Techline Snap
Track
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New Sample Projects
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New sample projects have been introduced
that leverage the same Plant model as the OpenPlant Example WorkSpace to
provide a consistent set of example projects for both the imperial and metric
datasets.
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Replace Deprecated Tag Sets with new Item
Types
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Tag Sets have been
deprecated in
CONNECT Edition in favor of
Item Types. For
this reason, raceway and equipment IDs and labels now use Item Types instead of
Tag Sets.
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Added Configuration Variable to
Allow Larger Cables to Route
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Added the configuration variable
BRCM_AUTOROUTE_IGNORERWHEIGHTIFNOCAP to allow larger
cables to route considering the Cap Style settings.
- If the Cap
Style =
0, the larger cables are ALLOWED to
route.
- If the Cap
Style =
1, the larger cables are DISALLOWED
to route.
Note:
- If the
variable
BRCM_AUTOROUTE_IGNORERWHEIGHTIFNOCAP =
0, the larger cables are always
DISALLOWED to route regardless the Cap Style settings.
- If the
variable
BRCM_AUTOROUTE_IGNORERWHEIGHTIFNOCAP =
1, the larger cables are ALLOWED
to route if the Cap Style is not defined.
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