Naming convention of cables

[Anonymous]

A couple cable related questions,

1.  I am working to use more of AutoCAD Electrical's built in functions to to make life easier(creation of BOMS and such).  I am running into a conundrum with my cables and I am just curious how the ACADE community usually deals with naming conventions of cables.

I would like to know if you usually keep the cable number of the cable back to the control box as the name of the component it comes from(in the case of a three wire sensor for example(eg. LS1)), or if you make it general such as CBL001.

2. how do you deal with a cable that is molded into the sensor and therefore is technically the same part as the sensor.  do you make the cable it's own identity and tag, or do you make all the cable markers children of the sensor?

[jseefdrumr]

Here's how we do things here:

*Every sensor cable is labeled to match the sensor it goes to, even if it's a molded cable. This is mirrored in the field, where we typically label every wire and cable at each end, plus in/out of every junction box, as well as every few feet if it's exposed in a cable tray. So a photoeye PE2153 will have CBL2153, etc.

*For motors and servos, we make everything match the drive's tag. If the VFD or servo drive is DR1234, then the motor will be MTR1234, no matter what ladder line it lands on. This extends to cables. If there's more than just a power cable, then I just suffix the tag with 'A', 'B', etc for each additional cable. (Of course, all of this requires me to make these tags 'fixed'.) So, for DR1234 with a combined power/brake cable and an encoder cable, I would make the power cable be CBL1234 and the encoder cable be CBL1234A.

*For generic multiconductor cable, like between two junction boxes, I assign it the tag and ladder number of its first occurrence in the drawing set.

*We favor a particular main air dump valve, which has three M12 connectors on it. We call these CBL-MADV1, CBL-MADV2, and CBL-MADV3. Same for valve stacks, these are CBL-VS1, CBL-VS2 and so forth. Note the hyphen in these particular tags, to visually separate the CBL from the name of the device. (I figure, might as well, since I'm making the tags fixed anyway.)

Hope this helps,