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You can synchronize the Smart Electrical reference cables with the ETAP cable library of a particular ETAP project if you want to have a commonly shared cable library. This synchronization is optional. If you do not synchronize the libraries, both applications function independently of the cable library of the other application. However, if you synchronize the cable libraries, each application will identify the reference cables that were specified by the other application.

To effect this synchronization, you need to import ETAP library cables and export your reference cables to ETAP. This procedure explains how to import ETAP library cables.

ETAP exports project library cables to an .mdb file which is then used by Smart Electrical to effect the import.

  1. On the Options Manager menu bar, select Interface > ETAP > Import Reference Cables.

  2. On the Import ETAP Library Cables dialog, select and navigate to an ETAP .mdb file that contains ETAP library cables.

  3. Under Cable details, select the required cables, select Update Cable Specifications.

    • You must specify an appropriate cable specification for each ETAP library cable before you import the cables to Smart Electrical.

    • Make sure that before you start the import process, all the source names of the ETAP library cables that you want to import have been added to the Source name select list in the Data Dictionary.

  4. On the Cable Specification dialog, choose the Select check box next to the cables that you want to import. You can choose Select all to select all the cables in the Cable details data window.

  5. Select OK to start the import process.

When importing ETAP library cables, Smart Electrical now uses the ETAP conductor material and Kv class property values in the naming of cable item tags in addition to the other property values. Also, the software does the following:

  • The imported cables keep the conductor material and Kv class data as this data was entered in ETAP.

  • The following abbreviations are used in Smart Electrical:

    • "Magnetic" — "Mag"

    • "Non-Magnetic" — "NonMag

    • "Overhead" — "Ov"

  • Insulation material property names are trimmed to four characters. For example, "rubber" appears as "rubb"

  • Import source is trimmed to four characters.

  • "mm2" or "AWG/kcm" units of measure have been added to the conductor size property.

  • Kv data has been added adjacent to insulation voltage rating.

  • If an item tag exceeds the 50-character limitation, the string is trimmed. If after trimming, the software detects the existence of an identical item tag, the string is trimmed to 47 characters and adds -1 to the end of the string. This number can be incremented until it reaches 99.