This is part three of Basic tasks for electrical engineering and analysis, which includes: Placing electrical equipment
Part one includes: Specifying electrical load calculation settings
Part two includes: Calculating building electrical loads
Part four includes: Placing light fixtures
Part five includes: Placing electrical devices
Part six includes: Creating circuits
Part seven includes: Using the system browser
Part eight includes: Adding wires to circuits
Part nine includes: Creating panel schedules
Placing electrical equipment
You will learn how to place electrical equipment components. You will load equipment families, with a face-based family and non-hosted family as examples, and place them in the project.
Exercise files:
ElectricalEquipment.rvt (this project has Arch_Link.rvt linked)
Estimated time to complete topic:
10 minutes
Topic steps:
11
1. To load electrical equipment families, on the Insert ribbon, in the Load from Library panel, click Load Autodesk Family.
2. In the Load Autodesk Family dialog, navigate to Electrical > MEP > Electric Power > Distribution. Press CTRL and select Lighting and Appliance Panelboard – 208V MCB – Surface.rfa and Lighting and Appliance Panelboard – 480V MCB – Surface.rfa. Then click Load.
3. To place electrical equipment, on the Systems ribbon, in the Electrical panel, click Electrical Equipment.
4. Expand the Type Selector and choose one of the Lighting and Appliance Panelboard – 208V MCB – Surface types.
5. Since the family is a face-based family, a Placement panel appears on the contextual ribbon. Select Place on Vertical Face to be able to place the panelboard on a wall.
6. Click to place the panelboard on the back wall of ELECTRICAL 1601.
7. Expand the Type Selector again and choose one of the Lighting and Appliance Panelboard – 480V MCB – Surface types.
8. With Place on Vertical Face selected, click to place the panelboard on the back wall of ELECTRICAL 1601 next to the 208V panel.
9. Expand the Type Selector and choose one of the Dry Type Transformer – 480-208Y120 – NEMA Type 2 types.
10. For non-hosted families, when the cursor is in the drawing area, the transformer is attached to the cursor. Press SPACEBAR to rotate the component in 90-degree increments. Hover the cursor over a line in the model and press SPACEBAR to rotate the component in increments matching the line angle.
11. Click to place a transformer on the equipment pad. OR select Rotate after placement on the Options bar and then click to place a transformer and rotate it to match the pad angle.
Ready for more? Head to Basic tasks for electrical engineering and analysis part four for: Placing light fixtures
Or go back to the AEC Collection Quick Start Guide for Building Engineers
