AutoCAD Utility Design 2014
DVD version

AutoCAD Utility Design 2014 DVD version is a model-based design solution for electrical distribution networks that combines design and documentation with standards-driven workflows and analysis.

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Utility designers and engineers can improve productivity, analyze and optimize network designs for performance and reliability, and deliver more consistent and coordinated construction documentation—all in a familiar AutoCAD software environment.

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Easy-to-use templates and predefined standards: Design overhead and underground electrical distribution networks more efficiently and consistently.

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Rules-based engineering analysis: More efficiently size and place assets and standardize electrical distribution designs, resulting in improved network reliability and fewer over-orders of materials and in-field changes.

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Integrated materials ordering and work management: Simplify construction documentation by automating the delivery of a coordinated 3D construction model that better conforms to cost and materials estimates.

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Deliver design to GIS: Minimize duplicate entries and as-built backlogs, enhancing the availability, usability, and quality of asset information.

Key Features

Configuration

• Standards and rules configuration (general, validation, material and analysis)
• Auto Detail Creation

Smart Model Based Design

• Design in AutoCAD environment
• Shareable, industry-specific model for electrical distribution networks
• Support Raster Design
• Simplified layout tools
• Containment and features
• Validation/Resolution Optimization

Engineering Analysis

• Smart Grid Load Calculators (Residential/Commercial customers and electric vehicles)
• Voltage drop and flicker; pulling tension; sag, and guying; and transformer, conductor and duct sizing

Documentation

• Associate construction standards to layouts
• Manage DWG sketches per project or design job
• Bill of Material Creation with rules driven features
• Population of material list into drawings

Interoperability

• Support for sharing AutoCAD Utility Design 2014 DVD version data with Vault Professional
• Integrate AutoCAD Utility Design 2014 DVD version to asset management systems (e.g. IBM Maximo) and other costing systems
• Integrate to work management or job management systems
• Share smart design model—AutoCAD Map 3D software; AutoCAD Civil 3D; and other GIS and enterprise systems