Electrical Panel Schedules

[adammeil]

I have been using ABS 2006 for 2 years and am wondering if there have been any improvements with regards to creating electrical panel schedules. Particularly - can you edit the circuit description anywhere else other than the database drawing? Has anything been updated with respect to distribution panels and transformer loads? These are both things that needed to be modified from ABS 2006 for the program to be valuable to us. What panel schedule & electrical advantages are out there for MEP 2008?

[mdipiro]

That was one of the first things I looked for in 2008, but I didn't find much to be happy about. For me and my firm, this is one of the biggest holes that this software has.

[kenaslan]

The only way one can edit a circuit is through the circuit manager. It is so stupid that we cannot edit a circuit in the properties dialog when we assign a circuit to a device. Also that we cannot have more than one panel is also stupid. B one panel I mean no MDP or transformer feeding a panel. I am beginning to believe that Autodesk thinks that panels don't feed other panels but have a mini nuke in them for power. Lets get with it Auto desk. A panel need to be fed by something, usually a switch gear or main distribution panel.

[Anonymous]

Autodesk has a little thing called Autodesk Consulting. Autodesk Consulting
will come into your firm and customize your program to have this
functionality (for what I consider a very large fee). So I have just been
working around the problems, hoping that someday they will bend to the will
of their customers and include the needed functionality in the base program.

Rusty
wrote in message news:5689576@discussion.autodesk.com...
The only way one can edit a circuit is through the circuit manager. It is
so stupid that we cannot edit a circuit in the properties dialog when we
assign a circuit to a device. Also that we cannot have more than one panel
is also stupid. B one panel I mean no MDP or transformer feeding a panel.
I am beginning to believe that Autodesk thinks that panels don't feed other
panels but have a mini nuke in them for power. Lets get with it Auto desk.
A panel need to be fed by something, usually a switch gear or main
distribution panel.