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Intergraph Smart 3D Electrical

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Smart 3D Version
11 (2016)
SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
10

The Electrical task uses point-by-point route design to insert cableway, cable tray, and conduit components into a 3-D model. After routing the cableway, cable tray, and conduit components, you can place cables to route through them.

A cableway represents a path for a cable tray or bare cables. The cableway has no physical counterpart; it simply reserves space. Cable tray, on the other hand, does have a physical counterpart.

For models that include underground placement of electrical cables, the software provides a duct bank option which allows you to draw the cableway and place conduits at the same time. The duct bank object lets you design conduits of the same specifications or individualize each conduit run, if needed.

Electrical Systems

Electrical systems are a way of organizing electrical objects such as cableways and conduits, within the system hierarchy of your model. You also use the electrical system to control the specifications that can be used within the system, such as conduit, cableway, and cable tray specifications.

You can create and organize electrical systems using any criteria you choose. For example, you could base an electrical system on the area where the objects are located; you could also base an electrical system on the designer who models the cableway.

You create electrical systems in the Systems and Specifications task or by right-clicking the objects on the System tab in Workspace Explorer. Electrical systems can later be reorganized in the system hierarchy based on your access privileges to the permission groups.

You start the Electrical task by clicking Tasks > Electrical.