Use Electrical Audit and Drawing Audit (7:25 min)

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Now, we have done quite a bit of drawing, creating, editing.

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Let's talk about how we can do an audit on all of our project.

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We have two different types of auditing tools.

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If we go to our Reports tab-- this

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is where they live because they are a bit of a report,

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we can do a DWG audit, which is a very basic audit.

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And we can do a full electrical audit.

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Let's talk about both.

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A DWG audit-- we could do on just the active drawing

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or the entire project.

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I'm going to do it just on the active drawing

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to show you one special feature you get

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when you utilize that function.

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It checks for basically bad drafting

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for lack of a better term.

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It checks for things that you may

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have done with perhaps doing a manual delete on things

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or a manual move, where those objects have now lost

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their electrical intelligence.

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And it cleans up all of that information.

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You can see the things it checks for here.

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The last thing that you get though,

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and this is-- you only get this if you

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do the active drawing and not the full project,

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is the showing wires marked in red.

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When I click OK on this, it's going to scan my whole drawing

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and see if there are any errors that it needs to delete.

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And it will automatically delete those

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because you do not want those in your drawings.

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Now what it also scans for is how many line entities

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they are, how many of those are on standard normal wire layers,

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or on wire layers that have been defined as a no-wire numbering

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wire layer.

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Now, you can also see all the wire networks here.

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So what you're seeing is they actually

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found some errors in here it, found some wire number

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floaters, which means they were no longer attached

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to a wire itself.

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Now, what that's showing here is all

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of the wire networks associated with each wire number

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and where those then fan out to.

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So it's just a quick visual on all of the wire networks

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you have in your drawing.

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As soon as you zoom, it's gone.

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It's just a quick audit on those wire networks themselves

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for you visually.

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The bigger auditing tool is the electrical audit.

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The electrical audit has 10 major categories

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of things it's searching for.

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Now, don't be too panicked by seeing 131 issues here.

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They are not necessarily all errors.

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But they are things to be flagged,

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which is why we call them issues not errors.

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It is checking the whole project.

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I could switch to just active drawing.

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But I'm going to click the Details pane here.

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And it's going to open up to show me all 10 of the areas

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it searches through to see if there are any issues that it

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should flag.

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The first one that comes up is the Wire - No Connection.

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This is one of my top three issue flags

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to look for so as I go through this,

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I'm going to tell you the top three things that I

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think are the most important of these codes

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to be searching for.

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And then we'll talk about all of them

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to understand what they provide you in the review

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that it's doing and the audit that it

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does on your drawing package.

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Now, the Wire - No Connection is really important

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because that tells me if I am missing source and destination

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errors.

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The three that you see here are actually not errors,

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and I'll show you why.

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The beautiful part of this particular audit

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is that you can double-click on any audit line item

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that it comes up with.

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And you can zoom right in on it.

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If you have dual monitors, this is a great time

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to move this dialog box to another monitor

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and be able to work right in your drawing set

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to crank through all of the issues

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to see if they are truly errors or not.

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In this case, the three that you see in this list

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is just the beginning of this entire project--

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so not really an error.

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I could truncate this with a dummy terminal,

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just so that it doesn't flag it.

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But the reason it's being flagged

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is because there is no source or destination arrow at the end.

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So it looks like an unconnected wire,

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which is why other than this main power, the beginning

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of the entire project, you would not

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want to see a wire without a connection point on it.

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The next one in the list is a Wire Exception.

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I don't have any errors in that.

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And then there's a Cable Exception.

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Both are similar.

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They're looking for duplicated wire numbers or duplicated wire

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ID's--

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not something you necessarily want to see, especially

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in wire numbers.

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But in cable exceptions here, perhaps the wire

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ID that I'm seeing, the fact that they're all labeled black

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under these different cables, is not necessarily an error.

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You want to look into it, but it's not necessarily

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one of my top things that I search.

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Now the Component - No Connection

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is a very interesting one.

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This could mean you missed the wire.

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But in a lot of cases, this also means

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these are open spaces that you might have, say, in PLCs.

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Perhaps, there are open I/O points

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that haven't had connections made to them.

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So they're going to show up in this list as open spaces.

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A Mixed Component Network, which I don't have any errors on,

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this would mean that I am trying to connect a three-phase device

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to a single-phase device.

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So I am mixing those component networks,

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and it is warning me that I have--

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I put that into the drawing somewhere.

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Because sometimes those symbols look like they could be mixed.

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We have one-line symbols that represent three-phase.

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We also look at them very similarly

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to the single-phase components.

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This would be where this would show up.

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The Component - No Catalog Number

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is my number one thing I look at inside of this dialog box.

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Massively important that you do not

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have devices without catalog information

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or your bill of material is not going to populate automatically

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from your drawings.

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So really, really important that you don't have

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those in this list.

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Now, perhaps there are some grounds

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that you're not worried about getting a catalog number on,

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and so those are not errors.

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But if I wanted to go to, say, one of these limit

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switches, right-click on it, Add a Component,

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and add that catalog information.

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I can just crank through my list of audits

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and make those updates.

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Component duplication is really where

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it's seeing a duplicate tag, also not something you really

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want to see.

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That probably means there was a manual copy somewhere.

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But go back, and check it, and just

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make sure that that's not something

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that you want to be seeing.

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The final ones are Terminal Duplication, Pin Exceptions,

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which are similar to the Wire Exceptions.

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And obviously, terminal is similar to the Component

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Duplications.

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But the last one I want to talk about is Contacts.

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This is the final one of my top three that I always

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look at in every single project I work in.

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This-- with a child component that

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has been left without a parent.

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In some dialog boxes, you'll see that called an orphan child.

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In other ones, you see the error message--

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error message as just a child component without a parent.

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But the key to that means that there

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is a child device floating in the project that has no parent

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information associated with it.

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Perhaps, the parent got deleted.

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And they didn't search for the child.

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And now the child device is just out there

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but is not doing anything, because it's not

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associated to anything.

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So really important that you do not

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have orphaned children, missing catalog information,

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or missing source and destination errors.

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Please take a moment to do the exercise on drawing

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audit and electrical audit.