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Creating Electrical Equipment Schedules with Custom Fields and Layouts

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This tutorial walks through creating electrical equipment schedules with custom fields and layouts, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Now let's create an Electrical Equipment Schedule. We'll start by going to our View tab, pulling down the Schedules drop-down, and selecting Schedule/Quantities. We can filter by the Electrical category, and we're looking for Electrical Equipment. Then we'll click OK.

Now we can add in our Data Fields. If we’d like, we can include Type, our Type Mark for an ID, and then add in the Family information—Family and then Type. After that, we can add in the Panel Name, followed by the Apparent Power for Phases A, B, and C. We can also include some Location data such as Level and Location.

Next, let’s add the Max Number of Single-Pole Breakers, then the Manufacturer, and finally a URL (a website link). Once we’ve added all of that, we’ll click OK.

So here we are. We don’t need to group the entries. We’ll itemize every instance in this case and start adding some information. Column A can be labeled “ID, ” and our Transformer can be labeled “TR.” It will apply to all relevant instances.

That’s OK. Switchboards can be labeled “SB, ” and then we could use “PB” for Panel Boards. Next, like we did before, we can add the Manufacturer—such as “Electrical Equipment Company”—and provide a website, for example, www.electricalcompany.com (as an example). We can repeat this process to fill out all remaining information.

We can rename some of the columns as well. For example, the “Family” column could be renamed “Electrical Device or Equipment, ” and the “Type” column could be renamed “Equipment Type.” You can change any column label as needed.

We can also update the appearance. Click the Edit button next to “Appearance” in the Schedule Properties window. We’ll set the Title text size to 3/8", the Header text size to 1/4", and enable row striping.

We’ll leave the default color and click OK. There we go—this is looking pretty good. We now have a well-organized Electrical Equipment Schedule.