User guide

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4.0 Administrative Functions
4.1 Scope of Administrative Functions
The administrator is responsible for maintaining project data that includes catalogs, cable
segregation, design control rules, cable segregation rules and cable wire color data. In addition,
the administrator should be making the releases.
4.2 Project Data Form
The data on this form that requires explanation follows:
• Set the project id and project title
• Live database – if unchecked, CableMatic keeps the designer data separate from the
builders data. In order to make builders database, designer must first make an issue and
from the issue make a separate builders database. The builder has a capability to create
reports that highlite changes from the last issue. If unchecked, the CM+ database is used
by the builder with the capability to make any changes in the revisions accessible for the
builder right away. However the highlite capability between the revisions is lost. In order
to provide it the snapshot db function has been implemented.
• Additional Rt len - the value entered will be added to each cable’s route length
• Use TM
• PanelMatic – CableMatic supports a model type “PANEL”. When this setting is checked,
some common functionality of CM+ will be affected (mainly tolerance settings, but also
NEC fill calculations, bend penalty ) to adjust to the physical realities of panel design.
Also the Bundles function will be available.
• Pull Point Prefix Comma Delimited List - Nodes that begin with these prefixes will be
printed in the route. These prefixes must be two characters. The word ‘STUB’ is an
exception. If ‘STUB’ is in the list, any Nodes that have the word ‘STUB’ embedded will be
printed in the route.
• Project Units – set either to English or metric
• Max Auto Size For Conduits – when resizing conduits the entered value is used as
maximum.
• Cable Area Tolerance – used to calculate max fill reserve for conduits
• Cable Design Status Value For Cable Data Lock – cable is considered lock if the value in
Design Status field equals the entered value
• Wintab Snapshot – when checked, will perform advanced checking for overwriting data
entered by others in a multi-user environment. Data is checked at the cellular level and
unless you change data a data cell in your spreadsheet, the database data cell will not be
changed.
• Add spare jumpers to cable terminations refers to the Cable Termination and Jumper
form. We recommend that this remains unchecked.
• AutoDoIt Data – Default Conduit Type when creating AutoDoIt conduit the selected
conduit type is used.
• Import Company Catalog Data when starting a new project it is recommended to import
catalog data from a master database. This function will ask user to select a CM+
database to import data from. Then it prompts the user to “OK” every table to be
imported.
• Issue – enabled when Live Database is unchecked. It indicates the last issued database,
the date of the issue and an open current revision. The button Clear Last Released
Database causes all components to be issued as NEW
• Add QA to Pull and Term Tickets will add a form for QA sign off to these tickets.
Please refer to the guide “Making a New Project” for more details.