New and Changed in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management CONNECT Edition Update 10
The following items summarize the new features and enhancements in the Bentley Raceway and Cable Management CONNECT Edition Update 10 release.
iTwin Workflows |
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PlantSight Integration (Technology Preview) | 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: |
Support for routing underground cables | You can now use the
Ductbank
Router
to
generate underground Cable Routes without conduit. In this way you can perform
cable routing underground without actual conduit.
Cable routing to a Cable Route will now route to the nearest perpendicular connection along the cable route rather than being forced to enter at one end or the other of the route as is done for conduit. |
Automatically Generate Conduits between Equipment | The AutoPlace Conduit tools have been expanded to provide an additional option for automatically generating conduits from one equipment to another. The original tool has now been renamed to clarify the distinction between the two options that are now available: |
Editable Cable Status Date/Time | You can now manually set the date/time for any change in the cable status in the event that you need to adjust it. |
Enhanced Dynamic Divider Calculation Rules | When
raceway
divider
section sizes are dynamically calculated the software will now calculate the
total spare capacity and divide it among all the sections. Here is an example
of a raceway with 2 dividers:
So for each section, it will have 20% spare. |
Faster Display of Cable Routing Results | After performing cable routing the results are now loaded and displayed in the Cable Manager Cable Manager much faster than in previous versions. |
Enhanced Raceway ID Tool to support window selection of Raceway Segments | Enhanced Raceway ID Tool's "Add multiple segments (selection)" to allow users to perform a window selection in the model. This would then list all selected raceway segments in the ID dialog so that the user can reassign all IDs as required. |
Improved Routing Diagnostics | The software will now report the element ID of any raceways that are responsible for failed cable routing making it easier for you to identify the particular segment responsible. |
Faster File Close | Closing files is much faster in update 10 as we now persist last used configurations in JSON format instead of an INI file. |
Map Equipment Types to different IFC Classes | Previously all equipment was associated with
the ECClass Device. Now you can specify different class mappings in the
ECClasses.xml file which you can then map to different IFC classes when
exporting to IFC.
e.g. Map equipment junction boxes to IfcJunctionBoxType. |
Optimized Routing Connectivity Tool | Opening the Routing Connectivity Tool now displays a progress bar while loading to indicate the current status and the performance of it has been significantly improved. |
New Raceway Router Setting allows you to specify conduit insertion point | A new setting in the Layout Configuration of the Raceway Router dialog named "Align center" will set the offset value to the center of all conduits being routed. |
Reporting Enhancements |
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Content Enhancements |
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New Ideas Portal | Access the new OpenPlant Ideas portal (https://openplant.ideas.aha.io/) from the Help ribbon Tab inside of Bentley Raceway and Cable Management. Use this portal to submit your product improvement suggestions, vote on other ideas, and provide feedback. |
New Maintenance Key-in | In a rare situation where the graphics for a raceway element is no longer displayed in the model even though it still exists in Project Explorer, you can run the following key-in to restore the element in the model: RCMRECOVERYHIDDENELEMENTS |