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ADD mm WIRE SIZE

ADD mm WIRE SIZE

I THINK IT IS GOOD IDEA TO ADD mm WIRE SIZE IN ADDITION TO AWG

TO MAKE A VOLTGE DROP AND WIRE SIZING WHEN USING mm WIRE SIZE USEFUL

7 Comments
scott_dakin
Collaborator
If you are using the UK version of Revit it comes with mm² instead of AWG wire sizes.
ipselute
Advisor
Please don't shout and, most importantly, don't double post. (Capital letters means shouting). It's not nice. We all have/had frustrations at times using Revit. Nobody's perfect. Not even Revit.
lionel.kai
Advisor

Just curious (since I'm structural), but I don't see AWG in Project Units. Is the OP talking about specific families?

Zaatra
Enthusiast

THIS IS IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEM ,WIRE SIZE ...WE NEED IT TO VOLTGE DROP CALCULATION AND SIZING THE CROSS SECTION OF THE CABLE OR WIRE

 

scott_dakin
Collaborator

The whole project has either AWG or mm² wire settings depending on which region's software version you are using.

 

The mm² version of the software is broken, voltage drop doesn't work and hasn't worked for years. The annotation of three phase circuits is backwards and the way it displays circuit conductors is non-standard. Basically it's all junk.

lionel.kai
Advisor

@scott_dakin Is there a post somewhere that details all those issues? It might help to show some screenshots of what it looks like now and what it should look like (and maybe also comparing the AWG vs mm² versions). I have no idea what you're talking about (I'm structural), and the developers probably don't either... BTW, is that a hard-coded issue? or is it just a function of the default templates that ship with Revit (i.e. if a project created with an AWG version is opened by a mm² version, would it still show the AWG? or mm²)?

 

It sounds like the voltage-drop thing is a bug - did you try support? I know they redirect us here all the time when the software is working "as designed", but you never know (I've actually had some bugs make it through to the development team that way - miracle of miracles).

scott_dakin
Collaborator

The whole forum is full of complaints about the electrical system in Revit.

 

Each point I raised has been discussed to death numerous times.

 

I have told Autodesk staff directly several times.

 

It's still all broken.

 

Can't see the point in screenshots of standard functionality TBH, I tell no lies, honest! Smiley Wink

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