Command Reference

This section describes all of the commands available in Design Master Electrical. It is a direct listing of all of the commands and what they do.

More complete discussions about how to apply the commands are found in the Concepts and Procedures section.

The commands in this section are in the same order as the Design Master Electrical pulldown menu:

Categories & Commands

📄️ Project Explorer

The Project Explorer command lists all of the items included in the current project, organized by item type and by drawing.

📄️ Update All Schedules and One-Line Diagram

To update all schedules and one-line diagrams on the current drawing, go to

🗃️ Distribution Equipment

This section describes how to create and manage distribution equipment, a term used in the software to refer to all of the electrical distribution devices that may appear in your project except for devices on branch circuits. 39 items

🗃️ Distribution Equipment Schedules

This section describes schedules that can be inserted on the drawing to document your design. 12 items

🗃️ One-Line Diagrams

This section describes commands for creating and modifying the one-line diagram. 39 items

🗃️ Circuiting and Homeruns

This section describes how to connect devices to circuits on distribution equipment and how to draw loops and homeruns to connected devices. 16 items

🗃️ Modify Devices

This section describes the commands available for modifying devices on the drawing. 13 items

🗃️ Light Fixtures

This section describes how to use light fixtures. 12 items

🗃️ Receptacles

This section describes how to use receptacles. 8 items

🗃️ Equipment

This section describes how to use equipment. 15 items

🗃️ Junction Boxes

This section describes how to use junction boxes. 8 items

🗃️ Switches

This section describes how to use switches. 13 items

🗃️ Low Voltage Devices

This section describes how to use low voltage devices. Low voltage devices refer to devices you want to insert on your electrical drawing that are not a light fixture, receptacle, equipment, junction box, or switch. 7 items

🗃️ Conduits

This section describes how to use conduits. 8 items

🗃️ Cable Tray

This section describes how to use cable trays. 4 items

🗃️ 3D-BIM

This section describes the commands available to perform 3D-BIM modeling and analysis. 25 items

🗃️ Layer Management

This section describes the commands available to help you manage your layers for conduits and cable trays. 6 items

🗃️ Point-by-Point Photometrics

This section describes how to calculate and display indoor, outdoor, and egress point-by-point photometrics. 24 items

🗃️ Building Definition

This section describes how to define the building for the project. Room definitions can be used for indoor photometric calculations and to label circuits in distribution equipment schedules. 15 items

🗃️ Takeoffs

This section describes how to generate quantity takeoffs directly from the device counts and wire measurements stored in the project database. 5 items

🗃️ Lighting Groups

This section describes lighting groups, which are used for energy calculations. 11 items

🗃️ Utilities

This section describes the utility commands that are available to assist in maintaining the integrity of your project database and drawings. 20 items

🗃️ Help

This section describes the commands available for obtaining support, maintaining current licenses, and installing software updates. 15 items

🗃️ Customization

This section describes the commands available to customize the software. A wide variety of customization options are included to allow you to match the drawings that are created to your existing company standards. 30 items

🗃️ Alignment Points

This section describes how to use alignment points and alignment point areas. 6 items

📄️ Start New Electrical Project

This section describes how to start a new project.