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The articles in this section provide helpful tips and tricks related to the Design Master Electrical entities that appear on your drawings.

📄️ Creating Custom Plan View Blocks

Training video on how to create custom blocks for use in Design Master Electrical.

📄️ Customizing Panel Schedules

Calculation and circuit schedules for panels and other distribution equipment are made up of custom blocks that can be modified to suit your needs.

📄️ How to Use or Create a Custom Equipment Callout

You can customize the information displayed in equipment callouts, along with how custom equipment callouts look.

📄️ Using Dynamic Blocks for Devices

You can make your dynamic blocks usable in Design Master Electrical with a few easy steps.

📄️ How Design Master Sets Layers

Layers are controlled using the Layers customization commands.

📄️ Layers Used for Circuit Loops

The layers used by circuit loops can be determined in several locations, including at the distribution equipment level, at the circuit level, and in the Options and Layers commands.

📄️ Homeruns and Loops Options

Training video on how to customize homeruns and loops using the Design Master Electrical Options menu.

📄️ Tick Marks, Schedules, and Leaders Options

Training video on how to customize tick marks, schedules, and leaders using the Design Master Electrical Options menu.

📄️ Updating Homeruns Without Losing Loop Customization

If you change how loops are laid out, the Draw Homerun and Loops command will overwrite the changes. Use these commands instead.

📄️ Column Subheadings in Schedules

You can create groups of column headings and subheadings in schedules on the drawing.

📄️ Stacked Fractions in CAD Labels

You can use in-line formatting to display some Design Master Electrical values as stacked fractions when they appear on the drawing.

📄️ Curved Walls

Curved lines for Design Master Electrical entities such as room and photometric boundary outlines can only be approximated using multiple points.

📄️ How to Make Dashed Conduits and Cable Trays

You can set your conduits and cable trays to be drawn with dashed lines using the Layers customization command.

📄️ Elevation Labels and 3D Drafting Options

Training video on how to customize elevation labels and 3D drafting using the Design Master Electrical Options menu.

📄️ 3D Modeling

Training video on how to prepare your Design Master Electrical drawings for 3D coordination.

📄️ Multiple Scales on a Single Drawing

Our software does not allow for multiple scale factors on a single drawing, also called annotative scaling.