Equipment Connections & Panel Schedule Customization

How to create and manage equipment connections, and how to customize panel schedules, in Design Master Electrical.

We look at the following topics for equipment connections:

• The Create Equipment command
  • How to customize the available equipment disconnect options
  • Configuring equipment connection loads
  • Setting breakers and wire size
• Creating equipment on the drawing vs. in the database
  • Querying, circuiting, and modifying equipment in the database
• Equipment groups
• Inserting, moving, modifying, and removing equipment callouts
• The Find Equipment on Drawing command
• The Project Explorer command
• The Import Equipment from Another Project command
  • Copying individual equipment connections from other projects

We look at the following topics for customizing panel schedules:

• How Design Master schedules are built
• The Distribution Equipment Schedule Blocks command
• Copying schedules and blocks
• The button
• The Insert Distribution Equipment Schedule Attribute command
• The Open Block from Drawing and Redefine Block in this Drawing commands

We also answer the following question:

• "How do you move, add, and remove labels for distribution equipment plan view blocks?"

We also give a brief overview of how the Trace Architect's <Device Type> commands work.