EVOLVE Electrical Customer Ideas

Our products depend on your feedback. No idea is too small or too big, we want to know where to make improvements and what features mean the most to our end users. Our customers drive our road map, thanks for sharing!

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 ...
Suggested by: Anonymous (19 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 19 Apr Comments: 0
In Progress Hangers New Feature

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 ...
Suggested by: Scott Huston (29 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 16 Apr Comments: 1
Planned (Added to Roadmap) Content Hangers

Add point loads Estimation to Evolve Electrical for conduit racks and Electrical Equipment

Since Evolve Mechanical seem to have this feature available, is there a way to make (estimated)point loads available in Evolve electrical as well. GCs (General ...
Suggested by: Jamison Rease (03 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 19 Apr Comments: 2
In Progress Hangers New Feature

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 ...
Suggested by: Rajesh Karlapati (04 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 30 Aug, '23 Comments: 4
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Add Caddy CCT conduit trapeze to trapeze family or make separate family

These trapeze brackets are nice since you don't need to worry about strut straps. They are made by Caddy and SP products (there may be others). If they were in the ...
Suggested by: Dave Clark (20 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 28 Mar Comments: 0
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ADD "Z" Strut instance to hangers

Suggested by: I Madeira (22 Mar, '22) Upvoted: 17 Jan Comments: 0
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Add CustomID to 3D hanger view

Flying through Navisworks, the foremen can see the CustomID of each hanger so they can easily associate the prefab hanger schedule information to locations in the model.
Suggested by: Tim V (10 May, '22) Upvoted: 17 Jan Comments: 0
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Auto Mounting Height

If mounting heights for junction/pull-through boxes could be workplane based or have the option for "level above" that would streamline placing them and eliminate the ...
Suggested by: Juan Blanco (07 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 02 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Content Enhancement Hangers

Add conduit roof block family

Add a conduit roof block family similar to nVent CADDY Pyramid
Suggested by: Robert Spahr (27 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 27 Jun, '23 Comments: 0
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More Hanger Tiers

I have believe that we need more tiers than just 4 even if they have no hardware. My company is having to use 8 tier hangers which is making us not be able to use ...
Suggested by: Lauren Freeman (28 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 17 Jan Comments: 0
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Add "minimum strut length" and "match strut length to longest trapeze on run" options in the Hanger

When it comes to Pre-Fab, cutting one length of strut for an entire run is more efficient. Also, instead of sorting through pallets of different pre-cut strut lengths ...
Suggested by: Adam (11 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
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Minerallac Hanger Assembly Legend / Prefab Trapeze Schedules

Add typical build legend (similar for trapeze racks) for Minerallac Hanger Assemblies as well as Minerallac schedule
Suggested by: Brian Danielecki (08 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 17 Jan Comments: 1
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Trapeze hide rods, add window clamps

On Trapeze families, all rods should have a visibility setting to turn them on or off. Only the center rod can be turned on and off right now. This has came about ...
Suggested by: Beau Tooley (03 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 17 Jan Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Content Enhancement Hangers

Update already placed hangers

Add the ability to update the elevation of the top of the rods of hangers that are already placed in the model. Sometime hangers needs to be moved for coordination ...
Suggested by: Olivier Manningham (02 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 05 Apr, '22 Comments: 0
Planned (Added to Roadmap) Hangers

Have the embeds in the hanger families rotate like the beam clamps

Right now the embed are locked parallel with the direction the hanger is facing. would be nice if there was a checkbox that could switch it to perpendicular to fit in ...
Suggested by: Matthew Hunt (27 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 01 Sep, '23 Comments: 0
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Trapeze rod delete

It would be helpful if we could select if a rod existed on a trapeze. This would allow two separate trapezes to share a single support rod
Suggested by: Ryan Hanson (12 May, '23) Upvoted: 31 Jul, '23 Comments: 0
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INVERTED BEAM CLAMPS

It would be nice to have the the beam clamps come out of the bottom of the strut. We don't always suspend the strut and sometimes instead we have them rest on top of ...
Suggested by: Caleb Wassman (20 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 22 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
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Adjustable distance to change over to single hanger when placing hangers on a run

it would be helpful to adjust what distance apart the conduits need to be for the auto place hangers feature to detect that it should convert to single hangers ...
Suggested by: Brian Evans (14 May, '21) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
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Hanger collision detection

Is it possible to have trapeze collision detection monitor loaded coordination models (NWCs,NWDs etc) instead of/as well as revit models.
Suggested by: Josh Schmidt (28 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 28 Dec, '23 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Feature Enhancement Hangers

Trapeze Family embed not correct.

On trapeze families, when embed is selected, it shows a strut nut with square washer. This is more of a strut connection. The blue banger is more of an embed. ...
Suggested by: Beau Tooley (03 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 03 Jul, '23 Comments: 0
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Vertical conduit rack

Allow the auto place hanger function to create trapeze style rack on vertical runs the same as horizontal. (Multi tier and attach to closest wall/element etc.)
Suggested by: Josh Schmidt (19 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 19 Jun, '23 Comments: 0
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