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Bentley Raceway and Cable Management

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Would like a match properties command in the Raceway Router to quickly a new raceway that matches an existing one in the drawing.

When using the Raceway Router it would be nice to select a match properties button and pick an existing raceway in the drawing to match the type, size, manufacturer, and other properties. Then use that information to insert a new piece of raceway ...
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Automatic Cable Routing should allow us to exclude particular raceway segments for selected cables

When the Automatic Cable Routing routine prioritizes finding the shortest path it may not choose the preferred cable routes to make installation easier. Some examples might include: Laying cables in a cable ladder is easier to install than to feed...
11 months ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Raceway Catalog Creation

In BRCM we have a provision for “Raceway catalog Creation” and it’s a very superb tool which conserves the time but there are some points which needs to be improve and those are as follows: - It has good provision to select the template for existi...
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 1 Future consideration

Area related Raceway and Cable weight calculation

Idea from Fluor Canada related to raceway and cable weight calculations: Weight calculation related to area or CWP (construction work package) 1) Straights (parts weight in kg/m): Total Straights weight = Total straights length (m) per area or CWP...
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Add support to connect duct bank to manholes in a referenced DGN file

Currently, BRCM does not support duct bank connections to manholes that are referenced in from another Underground file. It's very common to have multiple underground files in a project, and manholes need to support connections to these duct banks...
about 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Raceway Properties should support the same UDA list selection as found in the Raceway Router

Would like to have the same UDA pick list available in the Raceway Generator dialog that is available in the Raceway Router to select a UDA list name that presets a number of UDA values so that the raceways can be generated with the proper UDA val...
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Raceway Generator should allow users to select a saved UDA list like the Raceway Router dialog

Would like to have the same UDA pick list available in the Raceway Generator dialog that is available in the Raceway Router to select a UDA list name that presets a number of UDA values so that the raceways can be generated with the proper UDA val...
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Avoid raceway overfill in manual routing

Would like the option of having the software check raceway fills when manually routing cables through raceway systems in the Cable Manager and alert the user if the fill will be exceeded.
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Perform raceway size calculation using all possible routed cable

It would be helpful if the software had an option to route all cables ignoring fill and then recommend a raceway size to accommodate the required number of cables.
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration

Would like a multiplier for routed cable lengths

Would like to be able to specify a multiplier that would affect the length calculation of routed cables. For example, specify that cables should be 110% of the length calculated with current methods. It may be necessary to do this on a per voltage...
over 1 year ago in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management 0 Future consideration