Cable Manager

Sets cable wiring details.

Accessed from:

Ribbon: Building Design > Electrical > Circuits > Cable Manager

Setting	Description
Left Panel: Wiring/Circuit	Cable Systems — Select Cable System. The following Cable Systems are available: L+P Wiring Emergency Lighting Telecommunications (CAT n) Information Technologies Fire Protection Public Address Intruder Detection Antenna Video Access Control Other Comm Systems Circuit Lines Treeview — Displays Circuit Lines. — Edit Structure button; opens the Panels dialog for selected Cable System. Used to create line/cables structures for selected Cable Systems. Key No, Description — Lists Panel settings/details. New — Opens the Panel Properties dialog where new panel settings are done. Edit — Opens the Panel Properties dialog used to edit settings for selected panel in the circuit lines list. Setup — Opens the Panel Manager dialog. Erase — Erases the selected panel, after confirming Yes in the prompted message dialog. OK — Saves the Panels settings. Copy.. — Copies existing Circuits including cable information. 1,2,3.. — Sorts Cable Numbers for Circuit (ascending). — Displays all cables for any selected Circuit in the drawing. Click OK to end preview. Zoom — Creates zoom window around the cable preview for the selected Circuit. Filter — Only Distributions/Circuits selected with the Filter button are displayed and accessible. — Lock/Unlock cables for Circuit. — Generates Info Lines for all cables in Circuit Filter.. — Select Distributions including all Circuits for filtering. AMTECH ProDesign — Creates export file for cable calculation application AMTECH Pro Design. The Select Circuits dialog pops up, allowing to select one or more circuits before proceeding. Panel Schedule — Opens the Panel Manager dialog. Export — Opens the Export Panel dialog to copy complete distribution including cable and symbols. Used to create a file with information about distribution, circuits, cable and symbols. Save in — Select location of export file. File name — Displays name of export file. Save as type — Export file is created in .besPanel format. Save — Creates the export file. Import — Opens the Import Panel dialog to insert the exported distribution including cable and symbols. Used to import the exported Panel including all circuits, cable and symbols. Look in — Select location of exported files. File name — Displays name of selected file. Files of type — Displays file in .besPanel format. Open — Open the selected export file. The imported distribution are used to insert in the drawings. Note: Import is possible in different drawing or project but not in different cable system. Refresh — Displays number of devices in Circuit, overall cable length and load information in the fields below about Circuit which can be checked against maximum values. Update Labels — Adds/updates label information to symbols in drawing. Recalculate Labels — Adds/updates label information to symbols in drawing, also reorganizes database. Tip: Uncheck the Filter before Recalculate.
Right top panel: Cable on selected Circuit	Wiring listview — Displays Cable No, Cable, Dimension, Installation Type, Length and ID of all cables in circuit. New... — Opens the Cable Properties dialog. Select cable details to create a new cable. Edit... — Opens the Cable Properties dialog. Change section for cable selected in listview above. C-No. — Opens the Individual Cable No dialog. Enter new Cable No and click OK. Such individual Cable numbers add a prefix ">" before Cable No. in the Wiring list. New Cable number can be removed by clicking on the Unlock button. — Lock/Unlock Cable numbers (Cable No). Erase — Erases Cable(s). Multiple selection available by using Shift-mouse click or Ctrl-mouse click. — Cut cables to Clipboard. — Copy cables to Clipboard. — Copy cables from Clipboard. Insert before — New cables are inserted before the selected cable segment. — Displays selected cable segments in drawing. Click in the view to end preview.
Right middle panel: Symbols on selected cable	Symbols listview — Displays Symbol, Description, Location and Addresses of Symbols >From — Select symbol in drawing where cable segment starts from. >Connect — Connect symbols with cables by clicking on them one by one. >Insert — Insert symbol in existing cable route. >Erase — Removes symbol from cable segment. >Go To — Select symbol in drawing. The first cable segment this symbol is connected to, will be highlighted in the Wiring listview. Star — Enables "Star" cable connections; first symbol selected is the star centre. — Displays and zooms to selected symbol in drawing. Click in the view to exit preview.
Right lower panel: Model Link on selected Symbol; Raceway systems on selected cable	Model Link ‹FROM›, Model Link ‹TO› — Displays information about the DWN Links of selected Wiring symbol. Connect — Select floorlevel to connect to Define — Opens the Model Link Matrix dialog. Connect Level — Connect to Wiring symbol in other floorplan/drawing. Listview Info Line — Displays list of Info Line, Installation Type, Length, vertical >Routing — Function routes cables over Raceways. Requires both an Raceway start- and end section. >Select — Function routes cables over Raceways. Only requires one Raceway section. Erase — Erases Info Line section shown in list view above — Cut Info Line sections to Clipboard. — Copy Info Line sections to Clipboard. — Copy Info Line sections from Clipboard. Insert Before — New Info Line sections will be generated before the selected (highlighted) section in listview above. — Zooms to selected Info Line section in drawing.