7 Simple steps for creating a set of Electrical Deliverables

With the help of E&I Electrical Designer, the complete set of Electrical Deliverables can be achieved in 7 simple steps. This includes not only design, but also the project planning, error checking and generating the reports. Look at the following quick steps to make your smart design ready. 

Beginning from the scratch, the first step includes the creation of project database and the blank drawings inside the created project. This is the basic preparation which is needed.
Once the drawings are created, the system allows the user to drag the objects from library and drop into the project. This helps in quick preparation of the project. User can add multiple objects into the tree structure, attach catalogs to it, edit the object properties and the project settings wherever necessary.

The project structure is now ready. Hence, the second step includes quick creation of Single Line Diagram.
For creating the SLD, open the blank SLD that is created in step 1. Select the appropriate structured view in the tree. Now, drag the objects from the tree into the SLD one by one. Make sure the required objects are electrically connected with the help of the connection points. 

The tree structure and SLD are now ready. The next step is to create the control circuits or the schematics.
There are two ways to do so. They first way is to drag the objects from the tree into the Circuit diagram, like the previous step. Another way includes dragging the objects from the created SLD and dropping in the Circuit diagram.
E&I Designer has representations of objects in various drawings making this possible. 

In the schematic, there will be the terminals. The terminal representation of these is an important part of deliverable. E&I Designer allows the automatic generation of terminal drawing from the schematic.
Open the schematic drawing in which terminals are placed. Route a terminal strip from the library over these terminals with the help of connection points. Change the structured view to terminal strips.
Once the terminal strip is routed, right click on the terminal strip in the tree, select the context option “Create terminal drawing”. This will generate the terminal representation in the database.
Whenever the changes are made in the schematics, one can simply update the terminal drawing which is previously created.

In all the drawings, place the Legend sheet from tools menu. This saves a lot of time as Legend sheets are automatically placed. A list of all the objects along with the representation will be displayed. User can make the custom setting of size, font, colour, etc. for the Legend sheets.
Also, object designation option allows the tagging of the objects. User can select a set of properties to be displayed in the drawing for all the objects. 

With the help of “Logic analyzer”, user can check for the errors in the project and thus rectify them to create errorfree deliverables. There are many predefined checks in the system, and user can also create the custom set of logical checks.
Errors such as incorrect tagging, absence of electrical connection, wrong tagging of wires, open cables in the project and many such errors can be identified and rectified the help of this function. 

The final step includes generation of the reports. Various templates of reports are available such as BOM, cable schedule, cable tray details, list of terminals and so on.
These reports can be generated in various formats such as word, excel, pdf.

These 7 simple steps allow the users to create an entire set of electrical deliverables, which saves time, provides accuracy and Intelligent, overall making the process quick and efficient.