Hello everyone,
I'm facing a problem in OpenUtilities Substation about the best use of Wire and Cables.
BACKGROUND:
When I started to modeling this Pilot Project for the electrical part of the Substation, I saw there was the tool of "Place Wire" (figure 1). From the tutorials, I understood that this should be used in most of the cases to connect equipments, control panels, etc. I also saw that there was a symbol of insert cable for schematic drawing (figure 1 and 2). At first, I thought that if I placed this symbol over the wire, it would make the software understand it as a cable.
Figure 1 - Tools for wire and cables in Substation
Figure 2 - Cable Symbol for schematic Drawing
PROBLEM I'M FACING:
So, with that I continued to explore the software and realizes I could export the connections between wires in the run reports tool. But, what I keep finding is that the software keeps exporting to the list o wire connections, what is cable.
For example:
Figure 3 below shows the connection between a Current Transformer and its connection box (ex. TCP-A to CLTC-4-P-RX). As you can see, I draw wires between them and assigned the cable symbol over it (figure 2).
Figure 3 - Connection in the Current Transformer
The problem is, when I use the Run Reports to Wire List, it keeps showing me those connections which should be cables (figure 4). So, I assumed I did something wrong.
Figure 4 - Wire List Report
My question is: How do I treat the cables? I should create just a smartline and assign over it the cable symbol for schematic drawing (figure 2)? The Wire tool is exclusively for wires, correct? Or there's something in the mode of the wires (figure 1) which could change that (General_Wires, 3Phase, Control_LV, etc.)?
Ok Satish, I'm gonna do that! Thank you!