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Focus on Electrical Design
Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD is professional electrical design software focused on design, engineering, modeling, analysis and documentation of facility electrical systems, including power distribution, lighting, fire detection, security, and communications. Moving beyond traditional electrical drafting, Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD is a revolutionary step forward with object-oriented design software, building information modeling of intelligent electrical objects, data transparency, workflow flexibility, and interoperability with industry-standard power engineering and lighting analysis programs to seamlessly link design and analysis.
Power distribution equipment, loads, feeder and branch circuiting, and raceways can quickly be placed in 2D and 3D with automated symbol placement, labeling and circuit routing as well as online load calculations for immediate design checks. Clearance envelopes for code compliance and for working space requirements can be defined for equipment and raceway systems. The physical design of raceways is accomplished with tools to place cable trays, bus ways, conduits, trunking systems, cable baskets, and hangers, with calculation of length, raceway fill, and weight. The Cable Manager makes circuiting and cable routing both transparent and efficient. Labeling, cable lists, board schedules and schematics are produced automatically from the cable management database.
Lighting systems can be rapidly laid out with automated symbol insertion from manufacturers’ specified libraries with bi-directional interfaces to lighting CAE applications, such as Visual.
The fire detection module includes libraries of standard fire detection symbols and allows the automated generation of schematic block diagrams, labeling and schedules, as well as online calculations of lengths, and maximum device calculations. Interfaces are provided to CAE modules, such as NFPA 72 (U.S.). The design of building subsystems, such as telecommunications, emergency lighting, European Installation Bus (EIB), LON Field Bus, IT, public address systems, video, nurse call, intruder detection, access control, lighting protection, as well as user-defined systems, are also supported.
Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD supports design functions with comprehensive symbol libraries, such as for ANSI/IEEE/NFPA (U.S.). Adaptable to CAD standards, the 2D symbols can be linked to 3D graphics.
Benefits:
- Focus on design with construction documentation and output of the design process
- Rapidly design and model a variety of electrical systems
- Design automation tools for arrangement of equipment and devices
- Integration with industry standard analysis programs eliminating need to re-enter data
- Support real world electrical design workflows
- Intelligent design data adds value to the supply chain
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Integrate Design, Analysis, and Documentation
Bi-directional interfaces from Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD to industry standard third party programs for lighting and power analysis eliminate the need to re-enter data and the transcription errors associated with manual data input. Design and analysis data round tripping between the BIM model and the analytical models results in significant savings in design time, optimized designs and accurate design documentation.
Luminaire arrangements can be created in Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD and exported to lighting analysis programs including Visual for lighting calculations. Lighting design can be done in the lighting analysis program and imported to the model. Luminaire information including physical dimensions for parametric symbol definitions, electrical load, and manufacturers’ data is imported from the analysis programs. The electrical load information can also be used for power analysis.
Benefits:
- Seamless integrated design with industry standard analysis programs
- Gain more time to evaluate more design options
- Avoid re-entering of data and eliminate errors associated with manual data input
- Achieve significant time savings in the design development phase
- Create multiple outputs from a single input
- Synchronize schedules with a single project data source
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Stepwise Refinement of Design
An estimated 80 percent of the electrical design process in the building industry involves altering completed work. By creating a true building information model, attributes and properties are linked automatically with electrical components. Stepwise refinement of the design allows users to add design detail as it becomes available in the design process. Also, design changes can be managed and quickly incorporated.
Benefit:
- Add design detail as the information becomes available with minimal effort
- Incorporate design changes quickly and accurately
- Automatically update labels and other design data for construction documentation
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Reduce Construction Documentation Time
Instead of driving the process, design and construction deliverables are virtually a by-product of the design workflow. Design data is entered only once and re-used for other downstream tasks. Powerful features facilitate the rapid creation of construction and design drawings, as well as panel schedules, circuit schedules, bills of material, and more.
For instance, circuit lines are automatically created between components and labeled according to standards; rule-based annotation is automatically added and updated with design changes; and drawing legends are automatically created from information in design files. Plans, sections, and elevations comply with user-definable drawing standards and rules for resymbolization and annotation. Coordination and consistency is thereby ensured across all documentation.
Benefit:
- Create accurate and coordinated 2D drawings from 3D models
- Control every aspect of representation
- Achieve significant time savings in the construction drawings phase
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Predict Performance, Quantities, and Costs
Electrical properties and user-definable attributes associated with electrical components are used to query the building information model and to make selective or global changes to electrical systems and non-graphical information. They are also used to generate accurate schedules and reports, such as cable and device schedules, bills of material, cost estimates, panel schedules, drawing legends, and more, with a bi-directional interface to Microsoft Excel for further formatting.
Benefit:
- Query any aspect of the building information model
- Make geometry changes through associated attributes
- Generate accurate schedule and reports
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Avoid Errors and Omissions
Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD automatically coordinates electrical design and construction documentation through all project phases and manages inherent component attributes and properties significant for design, documentation, analysis, construction, commissioning and operations. Integrated analysis interfaces eliminate manual data entry errors when creating analytical models.
Because all information is tightly linked to a single data source, changes made to the model are reflected in drawings, schedules, and reports. Electrical components can be pre-defined and stored with settings for material, level, 2D and 3D symbology, and others, thus enforcing corporate and project standards as well as capturing knowledge for reuse on subsequent projects.
Benefits:
- Seamlessly integrate with industry standard analysis programs and share design data
- Assure consistency across all forms of project documentation
- Enforce compliance with corporate and project standards
- Capture knowledge for reuse on subsequent projects
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Get Immediate Visual Feedback
Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD provides immediate visual feedback in the model for electrical system arrangements, raceway systems, alarm devices such as fire detectors, clearance envelopes, light sources, and more.
Benefits:
- Rapidly design, model, and visualize complex electrical systems
- Visualize clearance requirements and eliminate clashes
- Better communicate the design intent and project information to stakeholders
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Empower Your Organization
Unlike applications that impose a particular way of working, Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD provides complete workflow flexibility. Using the same tools and an identical interface, you can work in a traditional 2D view or advanced 3D model environment, associate attributes and properties with electrical components and objects at the time of placement or add them as the project progresses. In any case, changes made in either environment are tracked and synchronized.
The user interface of Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD is easy to use, intuitive, and self-explanatory, making 3D modeling as simple as 2D drafting, thus shortening the learning curve and allowing full exploitation of the many powerful tools and features. Tools are provided to tailor the user interface for particular tasks, workflows, or preferences. In addition to extensive user manuals and documentation, online help is always available. And the focus is always on electrical design with construction documentation as an output of the design process.
Available in U.S. language, Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD is delivered with localized content supporting a variety of North American CAD standards and electrical codes. Customizable with corporate and project standards, datasets include common parametric and non-parametric building objects and components with default settings for symbology, level, quantity takeoff, and rendering, annotation symbols, and more.
Designed to increase the productivity and profitability of AEC professionals, Bentley offers professional training programs at Bentley Institute training facilities, on site, and in virtual classrooms. To minimize training costs even further, Bentley LEARN offers convenient multi-user training for a fixed annual fee, which not only facilitates budgeting, but also delivers comprehensive training to the entire organization. In addition, this unique program provides access to hundreds of hours of feature clips and self-paced lectures and labs and is a rich source for online, on-demand eLearning.
Benefits:
- Work the way that best suits your projects and workflows, not the application
- Use Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD right out of the box with localized content
- Shorten the learning curve
- Empower electrical engineers and designers with computer aided electrical design
- Streamline budgeting for training
- Achieve significant savings in training costs and greater return on software investment
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