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Design Master November 2022 Newsletter

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Electrical for AutoCAD 8.7 & Photometrics 1.2 Released

Design Master Electrical 8.7 is now available. The new features include vertical photometric calculations and other point-by-point photometrics improvements.

See the new features in action in a webinar on Tuesday, November 8 at 1:30pm Eastern / 10:30am Pacific.

Electrical 8.7 Install Instructions

Electrical 8.7 Feature List

Design Master Photometrics 1.2 is now available. The new features include vertical photometric calculations and other point-by-point photometrics improvements. All changes in Design Master Photometrics are also included in Design Master Electrical.

See the new features in action in a webinar on Wednesday, November 9 at 1:30pm Eastern / 10:30am Pacific.

Photometrics 1.2 Install Instructions

Photometrics 1.2 Feature List


Electrical Mastermind

Join the Electrical Mastermind on November 10, 2022 at 1:30pm Eastern / 10:30am Pacific. David Robison will host a Zoom call to connect electrical professionals.

Come share what you are doing and learn from other engineers across the country. Bring a recent win and your biggest challenge to share with the group.

Links to join the meeting and set reminders are available on our website.

Can't make the November date? The Electrical Mastermind will be held monthly on the 2nd Thursday. Hopefully you can join us December 8 or January 12.


Design Master Electrical RT Makes It Fast and Easy for McMillan Electric

McMillan Electric has offered electrical contracting services out of the Bay Area for nearly sixty years, growing to multiple offices and over a hundred employees. Dean Macy, PE, works in their Reno office as an electrical engineer. “I just got my PE, so I’m very new to the industry in general,” he explains. “I was a hardware design engineer for the last seven years, so this is new, but my family’s all construction industry, so it’s not like it was my first time seeing it.”

“We are all the way Revit,” Dean says of the company’s general workflow. “We don’t use any CAD software at all unless we’re working with another company that has CAD, then we just import it into our Revit model.” In early 2022, his office was looking for ways to expand its design capabilities beyond what Revit offers: “Our preconstruction BIM manager and I were trying a bunch of different software, trying to figure out what we wanna use for one-line diagrams, for arc-flash analysis, for voltage drop calculations.”

Read more about McMillan Electric.


Online Training

A regular online training webinar is available every month for Design Master Electrical RT for Revit.

Complete details about the training and recordings of past trainings are available on our website.

Here is the schedule for the next two months:

November 17, 2022: The Instance Edit Command
Explore the settings you can adjust on instances in your projects.

December 15, 2022: Creating a Custom One-Line Diagram Family
Learn how to modify the default graphics to create custom one-line diagram families. We will create a custom piece of equipment and a custom overcurrent protection graphic.


Documentation Updates

The Electrical User Manual has been updated for release 8.7.

The "Photometrics" section of the Electrical Tutorial and Part 7 of the Electrical Video Tutorial Series have been updated for release 8.7 to include the new photometrics features. The tutorial is our recommended starting point for current users to learn the new features, and for new users to learn the software in general.

The Photometrics User Manual has been updated for release 1.2.

The Photometrics Tutorial and Photometrics Video Tutorial have been updated for release 1.2 to include the new photometrics features. The tutorial is our recommended starting point for current users to learn the new features, and for new users to learn the software in general.

Knowledge Base Updates

The following articles have been added to the knowledge base:

General

Electrical

Photometrics

Training Videos

The following training videos have been added to the knowledge base:

Electrical RT