Drawing Conduits

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, hope you all had a nice Easter break. I got stuck this morning figuring out how to draw an electrical conduit on ACADE. The only command I managed to find that's "conduit" related is the AECONDUITMARKER. But all it seems to do is draw a conduit on an existing drawn line. I checked some videos on YouTube and apparently some folks seems to be using a conduit feature on their ribbons, with which they can freely draw conduits without the need to draw a line first (though its in ACAD and not ACADE). Is there perhaps an apps I need to download to get that feature on my ribbons? Or am I missing a command here? Thanks.

[jseefdrumr]

ACADE has no out-of-the-box function for drawing conduit. It can draw wires and cables, or panel installation items like DIN rail and wire duct.

ACADE is mainly intended for drawing electrical schematics, such as for OEM machines. It has a fairly specific toolset that ignores much of what is 'electrical' in other types of engineering. For instance, it's not really well suited for drawing circuit boards, laying out lighting plans for a building, or for drawing the electrical needs of a civil engineering project, like a treatment plant or even a traffic intersection.

That said, since ACADE is based on ACAD, you can do anything with it that you can do with ACAD. This includes 3D polylines, wireframe modeling, etc. You may be able to leverage standard CAD skills to do what's needed here.

[Anonymous]

Hey Jim, thanks for your reply. I was hoping maybe I could share the link to that YouTube vid where I saw the user use the conduit feature from the ribbon set? Its basically 2D conduits and looks no different from wires, but to me it seemed less tedious than the AECONDUITMARKER command, and I'm scratching my head here thinking how I can get access to that lol. I pasted the link below. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcbZLGfprVo

[jseefdrumr · Accepted solution]

That tool is a specially-crafted function that is part of 2-D Electrical Drafting. From the text under that video: "2-D Electrical Drafting is a Suite of Tools for the AutoCAD environment. The look of the output is highly customizable."

This is not a standard ribbon tool that is part of ACAD or ACADE, it is a third-party function that is part of an entire suite of tools. In order to get it, you'd have to purchase that tool suite from the people who made the video.

[testsubject]

What the Conduit Marker provides is a means to calculate how much volume is being taken up by the cables/wires inside a given conduit/wireway. It also was a place for the catalog information (Part Number, Length, etc.) to reside in for the panel drawings. This info shows up in the Panel BOM Reports.

It appears under the "Panel" tab after you activate it by Right Mouse Clicking on a blank space of the Ribbon and selecting "Show Panels\Conduit Tools".

It never got any real love and I do not think anyone really uses it....

[rhesusminus · Accepted solution]

You're looking for AutoCAD MEP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZUsZh_Vjo