Motor Control Center "MCC" Revit Modeling

[Anonymous]

I am not entirely sure if i'm posting in the right spot.

I was trying to model MCCs into my model. I will have about 18 MCCs roughly in the plant that we are designing. I looked at the built in family for MCCs and it looks like it is set up as a block per section of the MCC. My end goal is to connect all the loads including VFDs, motors, and other equipment using VFD, starters and circuit breaker configuration. Is there a way to connect each block together so that for example 14 blocks makes one MCC. I need to output a MCC schedule that shows all the connections and what type of starter they have.

I am using Revit 2016 MEP.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Revit really doesn't play nicely with combined equipment configurations like that.  You basically have to model each component separately and figure out a way to add shared parameters to them so they organize themselves in your schedule.  The power circuiting is fairly straightforward, just circuit directly to the equipment being served and bypass the drives, starters, disconnects, etc.  I've been trying off and on for almost a decade and still haven't found any useful way to create actual control systems for anything.  The best we can do is a bunch of text parameters that aren't really associated with anything other than the family they live in.

[MuirEng]

You might want to run this one past David at Design Master Software.

[gherringYHWDJ]

Did you ever get anywhere with this? 

I have created a MCC section which has 5 electrical connectors (1A, 1B, 1C, 1D & 1E), I cannot figure out how to connect each electrical connector to a single connector or buss to get a total load of the combined connectors.

Stuck in Revit limbo 

[MuirEng]

I'd think your MCC should be modelled as a switchboard with five circuit slots, no? I mean won't you have individual OCP on each branch? Then you connect as normal and you'd see the total load roll up into the switchboard (= MCC).