Concepts and Procedures
This section describes concepts and procedures you will use with Design Master Electrical. It describes how to apply the commands in the Command Reference section to create your electrical project.
Categories & Concepts
📄️ Definitions: Distribution Equipment and Branch Circuit Device
We have two definitions that are unique to our software: distribution equipment and branch circuit device. The electrical industry as a whole does not have words that match these terms. We use these terms in our software because they help organize how we create the model of your electrical system.
📄️ Project Drawing and Database Management
You must consider how changes to your drawings will affect the database. This section details recommendations for common scenarios when working on a Design Master Electrical project.
📄️ Master and Standards Databases
The master and standards databases are used to store default settings for new projects. You can make changes to the customization settings, store them in these files, and reuse them.
🗃️ Common Schedule Dialog Box Features
All of the schedule dialog boxes work in a similar way. The buttons available that you use to create and modify records in the schedule are all the same. 3 items
🗃️ Common Device Settings
This section describes settings that are common to multiple types of devices. 5 items
📄️ Schedule Groups
All schedules in the project and master database can be organized into groups. Groups allow you to organize the records in your schedule.
📄️ Inserting Notes and Leaders on the Drawing
You can customize the block used for the leader arrow and its length. See the Leaders Options section for more information.
🗃️ Calculation Methods and Formulas
This section describes some of the calculation methods used by Design Master Electrical. 3 items
📄️ Arc-Flash Overview
This section provides an overview of how arc-flash calculations work.
📄️ Addressing Distribution Equipment Calculation Errors
If there are errors in the distribution equipment definitions, an alert dialog box will be displayed alerting you to the errors. The specific errors and their solutions will be listed on the command line. Press F2 to expand the command line to see all of the errors.
📄️ Overloaded Distribution Equipment
When running the Update Distribution Equipment Schedule or Update All Schedules and One-Line Diagram command, if any of the affected schedules show an overloaded distribution equipment, the Overloaded Distribution Equipment dialog box will appear.