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Cable Block Diagrams (CBDs) provide a graphical representation of the interconnection of all control, power, instrumentation, and grounding cables, and their related equipment such as power distribution boards (PDBs), generators, motors, and so forth, within your plant. They show the plant cable flow between the various cabinets and equipment of your plant.

Cable block diagrams are used in the preliminary planning stages of the plant life cycle to verify the destination panels for cables as no wiring connections or terminations are needed at this early stage of your plant. Cable block diagrams can also be used for ordering MTO (made to order) cables at the feed stage of your plant, and later after the completion of your plant as part of the maintenance program to show the location of all major cables, panels, junction boxes, and so forth. Use the same equipment and cables in more than one drawing.

Smart Electrical allows you to drag items from the Electrical Index, Electrical Engineer, and Reference Data Explorer to your drawing, and position them exactly where you want them to be. You can create associations among the items, especially when placing cables on your drawing. You can manually connect the cables on a CBD. The software checks the connections and informs you if there is a problem.

To symbolize the placed items on the drawing, the software uses either a shipped symbol taken from the reference data (specified by you on the Locations page in Options Manager) or a custom symbol that you have associated with a specific item. If these images are not available in the specified folder, the software uses a default image taken from the shipped reference data. See Defining File Locations in the Smart Electrical Option Manager help.