Raceway Cross Section Reports

To assist conductor pulling, identifying conductors and for further analysis of optimisation, Paneldes provides a detailed ROUTE SEGMENT cross section list for all of the routes in which it has placed conductors.

File Details

Paneldes route segment cross section lists are DBASE 3 compatible database files.
The files are generated for wires and cables and will be named "YourProjectNameWIREXSECT.DBF" and "YourProjectNameCABLEXSECT.DBF" respectively.
These databases will be generated automatically in the current Elecdes project directory when you have routed conductors.
One wire and cable cross section database only will be allowed per Elecdes project.
The width of the file (number of fields) is defined by the largest number of conductors in any route segment plus seven.

Conductor List

We will assume that X is the number of conductors in any route segment.

The Conductor list, i.e. COND1 CONDX, is the conductor cross section for this segment.

The Fill_Info field will inform you how FULL this segment is (possibly under- or OVER-utilised).

Bottlenecks

Your conductor names may have a suffix: (BKF), (BKS), (BKW), (BKA), (BKP), (BKV), (BKR), or (BKN).

If this is the case, then a useable route has not been found for that conductor.

Paneldes is indicating that any conductors with such a suffix may be experiencing bottleneck problems, or impassable restrictions, in your raceway network.

When the "Join Disconnected Networks" option is set in routing preferences, raceway on 2 different networks can join on a bottleneck pass via a "bridging connection". This assists with problem diagnosis on bottlenecked conductors.

Highlighting Routing Problems: Bottlenecks

Viewing / Editing

How to view wire and cable reports

Insert a cross section diagram into a drawing

File Structure

The data base file structure is the same for both wires and cables.

REPORT implies a field is analysis data.

Field	Width	Usage	Description
DRAWING	54		The filename of the model on which the segment is drawn (without .dwg extension).
COND_TYPE	10		Whether the conductor is a wire or cable.
CLASS	10	REPORT	The CLASS of raceway segment for the record.
SEGMENT	25	REPORT	The tagname of the raceway segment.
LENGTH	10	REPORT	The length of the raceway segment.
INNERWIDTH	25	REPORT	The inner width of the raceway segement. ( Evaluates to width of the segment - 2 * width of the wall )
POWER	64	REPORT	The power index value for the raceway segment.
CABLEFACTR	15	REPORT	The cable carrying capacity for the raceway segment.
CABLE_CF	15	REPORT	Summed cable factor of the conductors in the raceway segment.
TOTAL_FILL	15	REPORT	Aggregated fill of all split parts of this raceway segment.
SPLIT_PCT	15	REPORT	The percentage of the width of the segment prescribed by the modeller for this power-split.
FILL_INFO	30	REPORT	Utilisation of this segment. (Percentage full)
WEIGHTFCTR	15	REPORT	The weight limit for conductors placed in raceway.
CABLE_WT	15	REPORT	Summed weight of the conductors in the raceway segment.
FILL_WT	30	REPORT	Utilisation of this segment. (Percentage full)
WARNINGS	30	REPORT	Warning messages.
FILLMETHOD	48	REPORT	Method by which the raceway filling was calculated. Most useful when checking which type of NEC raceway filling rule was applied.
CFUSED	15	REPORT	Percentage of the cable capacity of this segment that is used by exiting cables that are not in this project.
CFRSVD	15	REPORT	Percentage of the cable capacity of this segment that is reserved for future use.
COND(X)	25	REPORT	One of the conductor tagnames in this segment.