Background

Reading a cable routing report to understand the paths that each cable takes can be time consuming as it often requires cross referencing the raceway IDs in the report with models.
Fortunately, in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management Update 5 , there is a new feature to generate Isometric Cable Report that embeds an isometric image of each cable path through raceway system.
With Bentley Raceway and Cable Management Update 10, it is now possible to set the size of the cable routing path images.
This article explains how to generate Isometric Cable Routing Report.

Steps to Accomplish

1. Launch the application and open Routing DGN file.
Note: Open an already routed DGN file. For detailed steps to perform automatic routing refer to this link.




2.Go to the Output tab and click on the Output Manager.




3.In the Output Manager , Select the Detail_Cable_Route_List_IV report and click on Select Resources to lock the resources.



4.In the Collaboration Manager dialog, right click and select all the resources and click on request lock to lock the resources. Click OK to return to the Output Manager.



5.The locked resources get populated in the Output Manager. Click on Export Cable Routing Path Images to export the Isometric images of the cable routing path.



6. Set Image Size dialog will be displayed where the size of the cable routing path images can be set.



7. In the Set Image Size dialog, either the size of the active view can be used as the image size or pixel size can be set for the cable routing path isometric images.
Select Set Pixels and provide the horizontal and vertical pixel size values.




Note-After the export of the isometric images is completed, the images are saved on the location pointed to by the configuration variable BRCM_IMAGE_PATH.
By default, the images are saved in the following location-
C:\ProgramData\Bentley\BRCM CONNECT Edition\Configuration\Workspaces\BRCM Imperial Example\Worksets\BRCM_PLANT_US_COMP\Standards\BRCM\Reports\Images.

It can be changed from the configuration variables settings.



8.Select Detail_Cable_Route_List_IV and Click on Preview. The report can also be exported to an excel file (.xlsx).
The cable report will be displayed with the isometric cable route path images.







Refer to the short video for setting the image size of cable routing path images-

Still a Problem?

If above problem still persists, then please create a Service Request and contact the Bentley Product Advantage group.  Please include a list of all relevant details to get in depth analysis for a solution or workaround.