This idea is split out from this post.
There are a few commercial/industrial electrical elements I'm finding myself constantly struggling to replicate in the MEP system, and I think they could potentially be incorporated as new Revit Electrical Equipment types. If not, I'd at least like to bring them to the developer's attention so they see the pain points we are encountering.
"Busway" - Busway poses the opposite problem. Instead of using one family to represent multiple objects, we have a need for multiple families represented by a single panel schedule. My proposed solution would allow multiple busway segments to have the same busway name with different segment names. All the loads with the same busway name could be displayed in a single schedule, and the segment lengths could be used to calculate the voltage drops.
- Currently we have a hidden panel for circuiting the busway loads, and the busway segments are all modeled separately.
- This runs counter to the idea of BIM modeling. How do I calculate the voltage drop for each load on the busway in this scenario?
- I could circuit each bus segment, one-to-the-next, but then there's no way to display all the loads in a single busway panel schedule.
Alternatively, this could be its own Type Category that would function more like mechanical duct, so you could chain the segments together and have a single panel schedule represent the entire chain.
