Monday 27 October 2014

Cable Tray does run along a Wall !!!

Hi,

I woud like to post something which most of the electrical engineers  wish to have in REVIT MEP.
As a BIM coordinator I was always been asked by the Engineers to  run cable tays along the wall. Accidently we found a work around to get this done. I Don't say this is a BIM way of working but this is surely going to be useful.
 
1. Draw a cable tray with riser as shown.
 
 
2. Copy the riser and rotate it to 90 Degrees.
(Many of us would have tried to rotate the horizontal cable tray)


3. Now bring cable tray elbow fittings from the ribbon and place it at the ends of the rotated cable tray.


4. Select the elbow fitting, drag and connect it to the riser cable tray.





5. Tada. Vertical cable tray is created.



6. Remember: whenever you want to adjust the cable tray length select the fitting and extend it.


7. Never drag the cable tray. it would change the rotated cable tray back to horizontal.

 


8. Added advantages: You can add Fittings in the tray and can change the size of the tray.
 

 





 


13 comments:

  1. Feels awesome, but cable tray cant be rotated vertically, it won't accept as i too have tried the same many times during my projects.

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  2. It does work, but you need to be in the correct section view. We do it, as described above all the time.

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    1. It does'nt work when Now bring cable tray elbow fittings from the ribbon and place it at the ends of the rotated cable tray : impossible to get cable tray elbow fittings for rotate it at 90°.

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  3. awesome,
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  4. Thanks for your post. I found it very helpful.

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  5. Winstong Arasu,

    Thank you for posting. Great work around!

    Regards
    A.L. CAD

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  6. Very very helpful thanks :)

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  8. Cable tray use for electrical cable distribution in the building’s structural plants and pipe racks, cable laying cable routing at cable tray also use for protection. Cable tray use for all control and power cables cable tray also use as a mechanical protection of cable protect from falling of any object directly at live cable, cable trays are manufactured of different types.
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  10. cable tray fabricated from mild steel and dip in the hot zinc for rusting as per atmosphere condition some time we use stainless steel or aluminum of fiber glass selection of material depends on area condition we can install the cable tray at structure with the walls of hang from roof with the help of rods some time we use the cover at tray to protect the cables from sun light cable tray is the part of electrical installation perforation in the cable tray help out to exhaust the heat of power cable due to ventilation we can reduce the cable temperatureCable Tray

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  11. Classification, Design and accessories of Cable Tray:
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