Select Reference Cable Dialog - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

You use this dialog when performing one of the following operations:

• Setting a reference cable for the cable drum that you are defining on the Cable Drum Common Properties Dialog

• Selecting a power cable for inserting between two items of equipment in the Electrical Engineer.

• Selecting a reference cable for a single-core cable assembly.

Filter criteria

Filters the Reference cable list, from which you select a reference cable. Each field for which you select a value further filters the list.

Cable category

Allows you to select a category that defines the purpose for which the cable is used: Power, Instrumentation, Control, or Grounding. This is a required field for this dialog.

When defining a neutral or grounding cable for a single-core cable assembly, you can select a power or grounding cable from the Cable category list. Power cables used as grounding or neutral cables are automatically connected as phase cables and they appear in the Electrical Engineer. In cable block diagrams and SLDs, the software displays them as phase power cables belonging to single-core cable assemblies.

Cable specification

Allows you to select a filter criterion that defines a family of cables, each consisting of a specific group of reference cables.

Conductor arrangement

Allows you to select a filter criterion that defines conductor number and arrangement.

Size

Allows you to select a cable size as a filter criterion.

Select cable

Reference cable

Allows you to select a reference cable for the cable drum that you are defining on the Cable Drum Common Properties dialog. This is a required field for this dialog.

Cable formation

Displays the cable formation (number and size of conductors) for the selected reference cable.

Drum sizes

These options allow you to select an appropriate set of cable lengths for cable assignment to drums.

Minimum cable length to order

Displays the minimum length of cable when ordering from the supplier. The software enters this value automatically after you select an appropriate set of cable lengths on the Drum Sizes dialog.

Maximum drum capacity

Displays the maximum total cable length that the drum can hold, including any spare cable. The software enters this value automatically after you select an appropriate set of cable lengths on the Drum Sizes dialog.

Select

Opens the Drum Sizes dialog where you can select an appropriate set of cable lengths to optimize the drum associated with the current reference cable.

You can change the drum capacity of a drum even if the drum is assigned to a cable. This way you can implement new drum capacities supplied by vendors. You can edit the properties of the associated reference cable and add or change the drum capacity values for that reference cable. After you have added new Minimum and Maximum values or changed the existing Minimum and Maximum values of the associated reference cable, select the Select button to set a different drum capacity for a drum regardless of whether the drum has or has not been assigned to a cable.