EVOLVE Electrical Customer Ideas
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Add weight calculations to all the components.
This would be helpful when making conduit racks, duct banks, frames/cubes for prefab electrical rooms. Determine how to install, transport, lift to another level.
Automate Conduit strap fitting on trapezes
It'll be helpful to allow Purchasing to know how many straps and sizes they will need. This also will be part of the prefab so they will know the types of straps ...
Either auto-dimensioning or a better solution for dimensioning
On spool sheets it remains extremely challenging to dimension conduit and conduit fittings quickly. Having to change the template to medium quality in order to ...
Voltage Drop Calculation
It would be very useful to have a voltage drop calculation built into the evolve Conduit Run Schedule so we can verify a feeder is sized for its length.
Assign Run Id tool needs some serious optimization
Out of hundreds of Run Ids listed in the project, it is very hard to scroll down and select the desired Run id value while assigning runs. It feels like an ...
In Progress
Wall Hangers for Cable Tray/Conduits
Reduces having to create hangers out of strut lengths and fittings. Could also show up with hanger schedules without special filtering to capture strut lengths used ...
Change conduit type and preserve parameters
When changing conduit type using "Change Type" in the edit section of the modify ribbon any parameter entries get reset to empty.
When running multiple types of ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Concrete encased option within Duct Spacers tool
Show geometry that can represent concrete along conduit ductbank run. Potentially down to a checkbox in the set up window. Coordination often needs to be done using ...
Sheet Template Auto-Selection by Spool Content
Spool sheet creation would be much faster if there were a setting that allowed us to assign sheet templates (title blocks) to specific families/types. This would ...
Make Conduit Connect to Couplings on Bends Correctly
I would like to see conduit connect to couplings on converted bends correctly. Right now they connect directly to the conduit on the bend and not in the correct spot ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Add point loads Estimation to Evolve Electrical for conduit racks and Electrical Equipment
Since Evolve Mechanical seem to have this feature available, is there a way to make (estimated)point loads available in Evolve electrical as well. GCs (General ...
True Back-To-Back 90s
The ability to add 2 bends in one stick of conduit would be useful. Similar to kick 90s.
Add tagging as an action for the Element Filter
As there currently is no way to easily tag layout points in a single step with eVolve, adding the option to Create Tag as an action on Element Filters would be a ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Add "TOTAL" columns to conduit run schedule for parallel runs
When exporting conduit run schedule for conduit lengths, we still have to manually multiply the "modeled length" and "wire length" by the parallel qty in order to get ...
Place Connectors Button
Automatically size and place connectors on selected end of conduit run.
I see this being a huge time saver when we have multiple conduits entering / exiting a ...
Quick Dimension to work on hangers
I use the place hangers to populate on say a cable tray run, but often have to adjust them for clashes as coordination on a project progresses, so I dimension the ...
Run Schedule Remember Path per Project
Currently when importing a run schedule the folder path is set to the last path used to import a feeder schedule. For users that work on multiple projects this ...
Able to adjust different elevations for 3 point and 4 point saddle
Sometimes a three or four point saddle will begin at a defined elevation but need to come back down to a different elevation. For instance one might need a four point ...
Conduit bends need a parameter that tell you either TOC or BOC
Since kicks and offsets have different heights at either end it is difficult to use a single tag to label conduit ID, Size and height. This is especially hard to tag ...
Masonry In-Wall Assemblies
Masonry assemblies for inside CMU walls. Include masonry box options, conduit sizes 3/4" - 1-1/4", 30" or 40" conduit cut increments, set screw or compression, ...
Hanger Sub Category
Make hangers families a sub Category of Conduit Fittings. I get requests from Mechanical contractors who are running clash detection to put the hangers on a separate ...
Needs more information or votes
Modifying Packages - Nested Elements
When modifying a package, if you remove an element that has nested components, those components are not removed from the package and needs to be selected manually. ...
Show the slotted strut in the trapeze family or set the formula into Rod offset parameter
currently there is no way to set Rod offset value to just a right amount such that the rod slides through the slot in the strut. Neither the trapeze family shows the ...
Add liquid filled transformer family
site underground models can be accurate
B-Line BCTS Conduit Supports
For branch conduit this type of support is easier for the field to install. Less parts for the field to handle.
Normalize the direction of conduits in a run
Add a tool to normalize the direction (start and end) of all conduits and all bends (Nose and tails) of a selected run or runs.
The tool could ask the user to pick a ...
Needs more information or votes
Partial Spool Manager
Allows the user to load partial spools when opening the spool manager to avoid long wait times on projects with alot of spools
Renumber tool import/export project based?
Currently the renumber tool is user based, and if you want to import a renumbering rule, it wipes any existing rules. Why not make it project based like parameter ...
Distribution Single Line
This would be useful as we are drawing conduit it build out a Single line in the model that can be exported to a pdf for job-runners/QAQC to be able to see what has ...
Wire Length connecting conduit runs through wireway/gutter
The current wire lengths on the conduit run schedule only calculate the center of the conduit for the length of the run. It would be nice if we could link the ...
Add Cutlist Optimizer Report For Spools / Prefab Packages
User can input stock lengths associated with certain families (strut, conduit, metal stock, threaded rod) and run report for defined spools and prefab packages to ...
Needs more information or votes
Kick 90 Family "Kick as close to 90 as possible" option
It would be great to be able to have an option in the Kick 90 family, for locating the kick as close to the 90 as possible, while still following bend settings, we ...
Add Caddy CCT conduit trapeze to trapeze family or make separate family
These trapeze brackets are nice since you don't need to worry about strut straps. They are made by Caddy and SP products (there may be others). If they were in the ...
5" and 6" EMT Factory Elbows
Provide families that would represent 5" and 6" EMT factory bends, currently these stop at 4"
Cable Tray Run ID and Schedule
Is it possible to create something similar to the Conduit Run ID and Schedule for cable tray runs? In principle, we would like to assign those IDs to cable tray runs, ...
Needs more information or votes
Add CustomID to 3D hanger view
Flying through Navisworks, the foremen can see the CustomID of each hanger so they can easily associate the prefab hanger schedule information to locations in the model.
Make 'modeled length' better for Excel
Conduit Run Schedule exports the total modeled length of each run to Excel, but Excel can't add up the totals since they are in architectural units. If we had ...
ConduitRun_start auto-populate with connected equipment
Would like the conduitRun_Start and finish to autopopulate with connected equipment data.
Annotate conduits in groups with wire size.
It would be extremely beneficial to select a group of conduit runs and annotate them(in a single annotation).In this annotation it would also be extremely beneficial ...
Cable Tray Physical Size
Cable tray physical size is needed for coordination. Currently the tray is exact size to the trade size name.
Basket Tray min, 1" sides and bottom.
Ladder Tray min, ...
Add gripple options for Trapeze hanger.
Our company is starting to use gripple supports for conduit trapeze hangers instead of using rod. Is this an option you can add to the current trapeze hangers or make ...
Needs more information or votes
Auto Mounting Height
If mounting heights for junction/pull-through boxes could be workplane based or have the option for "level above" that would streamline placing them and eliminate the ...
Renumber Parallel Feeders in 1 Action
Using the renumber tool, I am renumbering each stick of conduit with a unique ID. When renumbering parallel feeders, it would save a lot of time if we can renumber ...
Small Offset
Could you add an additional offset to your families that could have smaller default dimensions (around 1' Overall_Bend_Length) built into it. Currently they are 4' ...
Needs more information or votes
Multiple entries for conduit run schedule
Have Evolve combine circuits in conduit run schedule rather than creating multiple entries to do so.
Add J-Boxes to Conduit Run
Provide the ability to click on the end of a conduit (node) and add a box as well as continuing the conduit run.
Center of bend for conduit offsets
Working closely to the guys in the field, they would prefer an option to have a measurement from center of bend to the edge of conduit. Everyone uses a different ...
Needs more information or votes
Addition of conduit size specific pull boxes
Can we by default add a pull boxes based on conditions below (Whichever comes first)
1.When bend angles exceed the total bend summation of 270 for power or 180 for ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Mark 1 dot indicator on offset, stub 90 or kick 90 bend on a 10-foot conduit stick
This would allow prefab to know exactly which end of the 10-foot conduit stick to place Mark 1 on, to start the bend. If you were to have a nose lengh of 5 feet, ...