Maxfield Consulting, PLLC is a full-service MEP engineering consulting firm based in the Dallas, Texas area. Wilfred Kidd, who designs the plumbing systems for Maxfield, has been using Design Master Plumbing since 2006. His partners have also used Design Master Electrical and Design Master Mechanical for about ten years.
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Inserting Eccentric Transitions: How to insert an eccentric transition in your ductwork.
Shaded Vertical Ducts: How to create vertical ducts that are shaded.
Exporting Light Fixtures or Diffusers for Reflected Ceiling Plan: Creating a RCP that is disconnected from your Design Master database.
Curved Walls: How to insert curved walls for building load calculations.
Modifying Room Outline: How to modify the outline of a room once it is inserted on the drawing.
Inserting Vertical Ducts Going Up or Down: How to insert vertical ducts.
How to View Hidden Lines: How to view ductwork hidden lines.
Partition Above and Below Floor: How to create a space that has a partition above and below it.
Arc-Flash Overview: Information on settings required to calculate arc-flash incident energy.
Balancing Loads on Switchboards, UPSs, and Other One-Line Devices: How to balance loads on one-line devices other than panels.
Residential Feeder Load Calculation Quick Start: How to calculate dwelling unit feeder loads.
Circuit Loop and Homerun Layers: How layers are assigned to circuit loops and homeruns.
Photometrics: Multiple Heads on a Fixture: How to model a light fixture with multiple independently aimed heads.
Photometrics: Aiming Light Fixtures: How to aim light fixtures at a specific location on the ground.
DM Electrical 8.3 New Features Webinar Recording: A webinar covering all the changes in DM Electrical 8.3, except for the feeder and
Feeder and Service Calculations Webinar: A webinar covering the new feeder and service calculations added in DM Electrical 8.3.
service load calculations. Those are handled in the other webinar.
Electrical Customization Webinar: A webinar covering the options available for customizing DM Electrical.
Loads on Circuits Do Not Appear in Panel Total: Typically caused by the "General Lighting Circuit" value being set to "Yes."
Setting the Phase of Single-Phase Loads on Three-Phase Switchboards: How to use the "Starting Phase" option.
Layers Used for Circuit Loops: An explanation of all the different places we look to determine what layer to use for loops between devices.
Exporting Light Fixtures or Diffusers for Reflected Ceiling Plan: Creating a RCP that is disconnected from your Design Master database.
Loads on Phases Change in a Transformer: Loads rotate when they go through delta-wye transformers.
Show Rooms on Lighting and Power Plans: How to share rooms between drawings.
Motor Load Calculations: How the largest motor on a panel is determined.
Footcandle Levels Inside Building Outlines: How to keep 0 FC values from being displayed inside buildings.
Indoor Lighting Coefficient of Utilization: How the CU is calculated.
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Customers regularly share ideas about what they would like us to add to the software. What we don't know is how many other people are interested in the idea. If you see something that looks interesting to you, vote for it. We prioritize features based upon the number of votes and the difficulty to implement. Knowing whether other people are interested in an idea or not helps us know if we should spend development time on it or on something else.
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