OpenUtilities Substation

Develop design, faster

Physical Design Highlights

• Model in 3D: Quickly assemble and insert equipment using 3D catalog. Hook points automatically align, rotate, and join related objects. Flexible conductors are easily inserted using property driven cable/conductor sag algorithms.
• Geospatially Locate Projects: Integrate geospatial information from hundreds of supported coordinate systems into your designs. Access data from OGC Web Map Servers, use real-time GPS data, Microsoft Bing maps, and create and reference geospatial PDFs.
• Ground Grid: Automate the insertion of grounding grids and associated materials.
• Analyze and Visualize Potential Design Issues: Visualize models based on their geometry or attributes. Detect and resolve clearance issues such as phase to phase. Use the lightning protection tool to visualize protected and non-protected areas within the 3D model.
• Integrate Point Clouds: Easily incorporate a wide range and scale of point-cloud data into the design environment. Visualize, render, and measure point-cloud data to better understand existing conditions and speed dimensioning and modeling.
• Integrate Raster Imagery: Easily incorporate raster imagery of all types including aerial and satellite imagery and scanned documents. Choose from dozens of supported file formats including CALS, BMP, TIF, GeoTIFF, JPG, and many more.
• Integrate Reality Meshes: Incorporate realistic, photo-textured 3D models or reality meshes into your designs. These highly realistic models can be used directly in the design environment as the basis for your design and construction modeling for faster and better-quality models.
• Generate Intelligent Documentation: Generate consistent, high-quality paper and digital deliverables such as paper plots, 2D/3D PDFs, and 3D physical models. Automate and reduce time to create plan and elevation views from 3D models. Smart automated annotation tools ensure drawings remain in sync with 3D model. Smart balloon callout annotations remain in sync with assigned bill of material item numbers and part numbers.
• Create Digital Twin: Easily start synchronizing your existing designs with an iModel to take advantage of a digital twin. Share the digital twin with your project team to see the latest revisions and changes to the project.

Protection & Control Highlights

• Create intelligent AC/DC schematics and one-lines using ANSI/IEEE or IEC electrical symbols from catalogs.
• Automatic Wire Tag Assignment: User defined wire tags formats are supported and are applied automatically.
• Create Panel Layout Diagrams: Panel (front view) symbols are easily inserted from a parts database or symbols catalog.
• Generate Wiring Diagrams: An automated wiring function uses connection information from intelligent schematics to automatically generate wiring diagrams. A shortest distance feature ensures proper wire sequencing is applied to daisy-chained potentials which connect many electrical devices together.
• Linked Attributes & Annotations: Device tags, wire tags, and equipment properties are linked throughout the whole project eliminating redundant data entry.
• Automatic Reference Charts: Drawings references for relay I/O and test switch contact development charts are automatically synchronized throughout AC/DC schematics.
• Import Relay I/O Data: Reduce redundant data entry when importing functional descriptions for relay inputs & outputs.
• Symbol and Wire Cross-referencing: Intelligent symbols ensure off-page drawing references are synchronized across multiple pages.
• Quality Checks: Automatic real-time error checks prevent device and wire duplication.
• Data Management: Use Data Manager to find/replace/edit multiple device properties across multiple design files. Data Manager is also instrumental for creating deliverables from standardized templates.

Generate Reports & Schedules

• Bills of Materials: Quickly organize material lists, and automatically assign item numbers.
• Job Costing Reports: Quickly estimate labor and material costs for work packages.
• Connection Reports: Wiring, cable, and field wire lists are automatically generated using data from the intelligent AC/DC schematic diagrams.
• Electrical Nameplate Reports: Nameplate reports are automatically generated using data from the intelligent AC/DC schematics and panel layout diagrams.
• Custom Reports: Report template designer allows users to create new report templates. A graphical interface makes it easy to drag/drop desired data fields into a template.