Smart Electrical enables you to perform wiring and create wiring drawings. The software provides for the creation of basic wiring and enables you to make the terminations that you require. You can do the following:
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Create terminal strips for all types of applicable equipment.
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Create terminals on terminal strips.
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Manage both cable sides.
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Manage both conductor sides.
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Create wiring drawings and make connections.
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Generate termination reports.
Wiring diagrams in Smart Electrical handle interconnections among equipment items that are external to PDBs or main equipment item types. Internal circuit wiring is handled in typical schematics. Wiring diagrams show cable terminations with equipment terminal strips.
The software can terminate only those cable sides that have already been associated
with equipment. A cable end that has not been associated with an equipment item cannot
be terminated.
Symbology in Wiring Diagrams
You have to store the symbols for wiring diagrams in a location that you specify Options Manager.
This location contains all the symbols that the wiring engine expects to get.
The software tries to present the wiring symbol of an item on a wiring diagram by first searching to an existing custom symbol for a specific wiring element. If there is no custom symbol for that wiring element, the software will use the symbol according to the definitions made in the symbology for that specific item type. In case no symbol has been defined for that specific item type in the symbology, the software will use the default symbol from the location for wiring symbols defined in Options Manager.
The software is shipped with default wiring symbols for terminal strip, terminal and first terminal. This allows you to generate diagrams out of the box without any further customization.
The minimum set of symbols required for wiring diagram generation is: first terminal and terminal, cable, set and conductor.
Reports for Cable Wiring
After creating your wiring items and making the required terminations, you can generate cable wiring schedule and terminal strip connection reports. For details, see Shipped Reports.