This blog covers some other miscellaneous tools that can often be used to support the P4A design process.
· Connection Highlight
The Connection Highlight, performs a “flood trace.” Click the button and select a feature, and it will trace (and highlight) radially out to everything else logically connected to the feature, stopping where it finds a feature that is/are disconnected.
· Tracing by Phase
In the Conductor section’s drop-down menu, there are command macros available to trace by phase. This lets you trace phase and help you to verify if there is any disconnect between conductors.
· AUD Select
AUD Select (AUDSELECT), is very handy in P4A to select specific common items (like blocks, lines, features, etc.) of the same type for many reasons, such as QA/QC or filling in initial attribute values (data entry).
For example, you can use AUDSELECT to select “all breakers where the Breaker Name is null” (because the Breaker Name should never be left blank).
The selection scope can be very precise. Start the AUDSELECT command, select the class keyword, then select a feature class and attribute combination. The P4A administrator can configure AUDSELECT keywords from a list of predefined options or use SQL directly. The familiar AutoCAD commands Select Similar (SELECTSIMILAR) and Quick Select (QSELECT) are also available in the same menu.
You can learn more about design support tools associated with Substation Design Suite: Physical for AutoCAD by enrolling in our course at https://www.imaginit.com/training/courses/substation-design-suite-physical-for-autocad happening in timely manner.
