EVOLVE Electrical Customer Ideas
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Add threaded deck insert (Tolco) to all rod assembly/trapeze families
Please add threaded deck inserts to all rod assembly and trapeze families. These inserts, like the Dewalt examples shown in the attached image, are standard ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Automate Conduit strap fitting on trapezes
It'll be helpful to allow Purchasing to know how many straps and sizes they will need. This also will be part of the prefab so they will know the types of straps ...
Annotations for Families / Schedules / Details - All Needs to be Uppercase
Any annotation that gets placed on any sheet needs to be uppercase only with all the same font and text sizes on everything. The uppercase text is a drafting standard ...
Either auto-dimensioning or a better solution for dimensioning
On spool sheets it remains extremely challenging to dimension conduit and conduit fittings quickly. Having to change the template to medium quality in order to ...
Voltage Drop Calculation
It would be very useful to have a voltage drop calculation built into the evolve Conduit Run Schedule so we can verify a feeder is sized for its length.
Place Connectors Button
Automatically size and place connectors on selected end of conduit run.
I see this being a huge time saver when we have multiple conduits entering / exiting a ...
Wall Hangers for Cable Tray/Conduits
Reduces having to create hangers out of strut lengths and fittings. Could also show up with hanger schedules without special filtering to capture strut lengths used ...
Assign Run Id tool needs some serious optimization
Out of hundreds of Run Ids listed in the project, it is very hard to scroll down and select the desired Run id value while assigning runs. It feels like an ...
In Progress
Concrete encased option within Duct Spacers tool
Show geometry that can represent concrete along conduit ductbank run. Potentially down to a checkbox in the set up window. Coordination often needs to be done using ...
Change conduit type and preserve parameters
When changing conduit type using "Change Type" in the edit section of the modify ribbon any parameter entries get reset to empty.
When running multiple types of ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Cable Tray Run ID and Schedule
Is it possible to create something similar to the Conduit Run ID and Schedule for cable tray runs? In principle, we would like to assign those IDs to cable tray runs, ...
Needs more information or votes
Linking Circuits with Conduit Parameters
The eE_ConduitRun_Circuit property is currently a manual fill category in the evolve conduit run schedule. It would be helpful to be able to link a circuit to the ...
Needs more information or votes
True Back-To-Back 90s
The ability to add 2 bends in one stick of conduit would be useful. Similar to kick 90s.
Add gripple options for Trapeze hanger.
Our company is starting to use gripple supports for conduit trapeze hangers instead of using rod. Is this an option you can add to the current trapeze hangers or make ...
Spacing and Alignment Tool to apply spacing to vertical runs.
The spacing and alignment tool works great to space conduits that run horizontal together but it doesn't space tiers of conduit in the vertical sense. If it could ...
Needs more information or votes
Quick Dimension to work on hangers
I use the place hangers to populate on say a cable tray run, but often have to adjust them for clashes as coordination on a project progresses, so I dimension the ...
Make Conduit Connect to Couplings on Bends Correctly
I would like to see conduit connect to couplings on converted bends correctly. Right now they connect directly to the conduit on the bend and not in the correct spot ...
Planned (Added to Roadmap)
Able to adjust different elevations for 3 point and 4 point saddle
Sometimes a three or four point saddle will begin at a defined elevation but need to come back down to a different elevation. For instance one might need a four point ...
Sheet Template Auto-Selection by Spool Content
Spool sheet creation would be much faster if there were a setting that allowed us to assign sheet templates (title blocks) to specific families/types. This would ...
Add "TOTAL" columns to conduit run schedule for parallel runs
When exporting conduit run schedule for conduit lengths, we still have to manually multiply the "modeled length" and "wire length" by the parallel qty in order to get ...
Hanger Sub Category
Make hangers families a sub Category of Conduit Fittings. I get requests from Mechanical contractors who are running clash detection to put the hangers on a separate ...
Needs more information or votes
Add Center of Bend Dimension Marker to Factory Bends
It would be helpful to have a marker or some easier way to dimension the center of bend of factory bends. The image provided with this suggestion shows a method that ...
Needs more information or votes
Normalize the direction of conduits in a run
Add a tool to normalize the direction (start and end) of all conduits and all bends (Nose and tails) of a selected run or runs.
The tool could ask the user to pick a ...
Needs more information or votes
Parametric Revit Family for Underground Conduit Transitions
As our models continue to increase in detail, we’re reaching a point where having a complete Bill of Materials (BOM) for underground conduit systems—including all ...
Needs more information or votes
Kick 90 Family "Kick as close to 90 as possible" option
It would be great to be able to have an option in the Kick 90 family, for locating the kick as close to the 90 as possible, while still following bend settings, we ...
Cable Tray Physical Size
Cable tray physical size is needed for coordination. Currently the tray is exact size to the trade size name.
Basket Tray min, 1" sides and bottom.
Ladder Tray min, ...
Add Cutlist Optimizer Report For Spools / Prefab Packages
User can input stock lengths associated with certain families (strut, conduit, metal stock, threaded rod) and run report for defined spools and prefab packages to ...
Needs more information or votes
Add Atkore Unistrut catalog to family library for strut and strut fittings
Like the title, it would be extremely useful to have the Unistrut catalog numbers for strut and strut fittings in the families as that is what is commonly used on ...
Needs more information or votes
Masonry In-Wall Assemblies
Masonry assemblies for inside CMU walls. Include masonry box options, conduit sizes 3/4" - 1-1/4", 30" or 40" conduit cut increments, set screw or compression, ...
Renumber tool import/export project based?
Currently the renumber tool is user based, and if you want to import a renumbering rule, it wipes any existing rules. Why not make it project based like parameter ...
Run Schedule Remember Path per Project
Currently when importing a run schedule the folder path is set to the last path used to import a feeder schedule. For users that work on multiple projects this ...
Allow Conduit System Colors To Be Enabled When Not In View
When enabling evolve system colors you must be in the view. A way to enable this without the view being active would save time. Or if even the evolve system colors ...
Needs more information or votes
Add liquid filled transformer family
site underground models can be accurate
Conduit bends need a parameter that tell you either TOC or BOC
Since kicks and offsets have different heights at either end it is difficult to use a single tag to label conduit ID, Size and height. This is especially hard to tag ...
Show the slotted strut in the trapeze family or set the formula into Rod offset parameter
currently there is no way to set Rod offset value to just a right amount such that the rod slides through the slot in the strut. Neither the trapeze family shows the ...
add TB condulets and X condulets
could you please add a TB option for the T condulets and add a X condulet family
Distribution Single Line
This would be useful as we are drawing conduit it build out a Single line in the model that can be exported to a pdf for job-runners/QAQC to be able to see what has ...
Modifying Packages - Nested Elements
When modifying a package, if you remove an element that has nested components, those components are not removed from the package and needs to be selected manually. ...
Multiple Run ID's in a single conduit
Make it possible to assign a conduit run or section of a conduit run (between pull boxes) to have multiple Run ID's.
A "home run" conduit will have multiple ...
Add J-Boxes to Conduit Run
Provide the ability to click on the end of a conduit (node) and add a box as well as continuing the conduit run.
Import sheets and viewpoints
There is only 1 addon I am aware of that does this. But it is not as maintained and sometimes does not work. I would like to have a functionality that will import all ...
Needs more information or votes
4 sq boxes need to have conduit connectors on all KOs
Currenlty the 4in Square family only has no way to connect conduit to the box, this stops the run id and adds extras steps when trying to continue conduit runs.
B-Line BCTS Conduit Supports
For branch conduit this type of support is easier for the field to install. Less parts for the field to handle.
Conduit U Bend Option within Conduit Bends
Would like the option to have a U Bend option within the Conduit Bends. We have several instances where we would like to use a 20' stick to make this bend.
Needs more information or votes
Add more/larger MC Cable sizes to System Families
Larger sizes are needed for MC Cable in System Families. See image for sizes needed. Currently using PF conduit types and modifying to "fake" larger MC cable.
Needs more information or votes
5" and 6" EMT Factory Elbows
Provide families that would represent 5" and 6" EMT factory bends, currently these stop at 4"
Mutli Tier trapeze with Rod 4 option
Could we please bring a Rod 4 option on multi tier trapezes so we have flexibility to shift the lower tier anywhere we want along the upper tier trapeze. Right now ...
Needs more information or votes
Would like to see J-Hooks added to the electrical browser
J-hooks for cables, usually these are used where cable tray does not fit. They are place against the wall. They come in different sized from 1" to 6" ect.
Partial Spool Manager
Allows the user to load partial spools when opening the spool manager to avoid long wait times on projects with alot of spools
Add divider option for junction boxes
Parameter check box to add one or more dividers, and their spacing from the edge of the box. Dividers will also appear in BOMs.