Resources

Integrated Electrical and Physical Design for Intelligent Substation Infrastructure


Bentley Substation Features List

General/System Features

  • Stand-alone product – no additional CAD software required
  • Command protection
  • One-click navigation
  • Search tool
  • Fully open API
  • Bentley SELECT licensing
  • Project-wide data editor
  • i-model support
  • Import legacy DGN files into active project

3D Modeling Features

  • Intelligent objects linked to parts database
  • Hook points automatically align and join related objects
  • Grounding grid layout tool
  • User-defined wire sag algorithm
  • Lightning protection (rolling sphere method)
  • Dynamic views – 2D and 3D views both update dynamically when either is edited
  • Dynamic section views

Electrical Drawing/Design Features

  • Project-based design organization
  • ANSI/IEEE or IEC electrical symbol catalog included
  • Manufacturers parts databases and symbol catalogs
  • Ladder builder
  • Global find/replace wire property
  • User-definable device tag formats
  • User-definable wire layering
  • User-definable wire tag formats
  • Cable termination diagrams
  • Automated balloon callouts
  • Panel layout mode
  • BOM explorer
  • Dynamic symbol text
  • Automatic component align
  • Global find/replace symbols and symbol properties
  • Automatic wire numbering
  • Automatic page numbering
  • Automatic page save
  • Automatic project copy
  • Page copy, rename, move
  • Global title block replace
  • Automatic device tagging
  • Custom symbol creation
  • User-definable circuit macros and symbols
  • Symbol migration tool
  • AutoCAD block migration tool
  • Intelligent off-page wire references
  • Automatic wire/line break and heal
  • Automated circuit copy
  • Wire crossing/connection preferences
  • User-definable wire property display
  • Catalog manager
  • Cable manager
  • PLC schematic generator
  • Automatic PLC addressing
  • PLC I/O import
  • Automated symbol rotation
  • Real time cross-referencing across multiple pages
  • Multi-user/discipline collaboration
  • Multiple undo/redo capabilities
  • Instantaneous real-time error checking
  • Forced wire routing
  • Dynamic wire diagrams
  • Terminal/pin-plug manager
  • Graphical terminal/pin-plug plans
  • Spare parts utility
  • Multilanguage drawing text
  • Drawing mode manager
  • Shortest distance wire routing
  • Equipment numbers (generic part numbers)

Reports and Documentation

  • Automatic report generation
  • Bill of materials
  • Wire list
  • Wire labels
  • Wire length calculation reports
  • Cable list
  • Terminal-plug list
  • PLC list
  • Job costing report
  • Field wire list
  • Revision history reports
  • Custom report designer
  • Output reports to TXT, CSV, HTML, RTF, PDF, XLS, MHT files
  • Project publisher

Special Utilities

  • Project builder
  • Hoffman panel builder
  • Panduit selection tool