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Thursday, April 28, 2016

PowerCad-M Add-in – Modify Electrical System in Revit MEP in a Live 2D Interface (Updated)

From the Autodesk App Store...

PowerCad-M provides a live 2D interface to modify your projects electrical system in  Autodesk® Revit® MEP. Within the 2D electrical schamatic you can move boards or circuits by draging to another board. A powerful electrical estimating tool is also included in PowerCad-M. It allows you to define electrical zones and quickly estimate the buildings total electrical load. Completed electrical designs can be published to a drafting view to be attached to your construction drawings.

PowerCad-M also provides a link to PowerCad-5 for detailed electrical design, by exporting the panelboards, their loads and cable length into PowerCad-5. For more information on PowerCad-5 please follow the link http://www.powercad.com.au/powercad5.php

The PowerCad-M Ribbon Interface

Publish your single line diagram to a drafting view.

Assign Panelboards to Electrical Distribution Zones


Quickly get information on the Panelboards within the model.
Drag and drop Panelboards to modify the electrical system

Electrical Planning Loads assigned to Panelboards throughout the model

Export Electrical information from your model to Excel

Display planning loads in an electrical single line diagram.

About This Version
Version 1.0, 4/26/2016
Initial Release

The PowerCad-M add-in is brought to you by PowerCad Software. The price was not known at press time. The add-in is priced at 120.00 USD for a 1-year subscription.

There's more information available on the Autodesk App Store.

2 comments:

PowerCad said...

A yearly subscription is US$120 and new features will constantly be added.

Tim Grimm said...

Thanks! I've updated the article accordingly.