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Field Wiring Diagrams

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Anonymous
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Field Wiring Diagrams

I have been doing Field Wiring diagrams fro several years now manually.  Is there a way to automate this process within ACADE?  It is very time consuming when done manually.  Mind you, it is much better than having to do the actual wiring because the contract electrician couldn't read the schematic, but it would be nice to have some tools that would automate the process.  Thoughts, suggestions, ideas all welcome.  Thanks in advance!

 

A bit of explanation of the attached image.  I will use a Layout Tab and view ports to have the terminal blocks viewed.  I then manually draw all of the devices, wires, etc.  It is very dumb and must be updated manually with any changes to the schematics.  

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dougmcalexander
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Assign a drawing default Location Code, like maybe MP for Main Panel, to all drawings. Insert a Location Box around field devices and circuits and assign a Location Code of FLD. Go to Schematic Reports and generate a From/To List. When the dialog appears with location codes appearing on the left and righthand sides, click MP for the left and FLD for the right. Proceed with generating the from/to report. This report will be filtered to only include wires that leave the main panel and connect to field devices.


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ccad2509
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you mean something like this ? no automated method to do hook up drawings currently exist

 

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