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Bentley Raceway and Cable Management

Details Bentley Raceway and Cable Management

Save Time and Reduce Costs with an Integrated System for Raceway Design and Cable Management

Designing complex raceway and cable systems often requires using multiple software applications to manage a wide range of design and documentation tasks. Bentley Raceway and Cable Management streamline this process by providing complete layout, routing, and material estimating functions within a single, integrated system. This solution establishes an effective workflow encompassing all phases of design, from initial concept to detailed layout and construction, enabling you to fast-track your next project with automated workflows for both conceptual and detailed design phases.

Plan with Conceptual Designs

Bentley Raceway and Cable Management features a conceptual design mode tailored for a project’s early stages. Key functionalities include:

Defining Equipment Nodes: Easily define equipment nodes in the facility and assign equipment tags to these nodes.
Defining Raceway Routes: Establish the required raceway routes to connect equipment nodes, with automatic raceway sizing based on the number and type of cables routed between nodes.
Generating Bills of Quantity: Produce bills of quantity for early ordering and provide material and space estimates to other disciplines collaborating on the overall facility design.
Updating Designs: As additional information becomes available, update the conceptual design with ease to maintain accuracy and relevance.

Create Accurate 3D Models

The detailed design mode in Bentley Raceway and Cable Management allows you to create precise 3D models of the raceway system, including:

Accurate 3D Modeling: Design the raceway system, duct bank, and cable trench underground systems with high precision.
Intelligent Drawing Functions: Quickly place and manipulate raceway configurations. Simultaneously place multiple parallel raceways of varying types, sizes, and attributes.
Filtered Display: Filter raceway displays by categories such as voltage level to simplify visualization of complex installations.
Electrical Equipment Layout: Configure and place electrical equipment, including layouts inside each cabinet, to obtain accurate cable length and connection information.
2D Construction Deliverables: Automatically extract 2D construction deliverables from the detailed 3D design.

Route Cables Automatically

Save significant time with Bentley’s automatic cable routing features:

Automatic Cable Routing: Define cables between equipment nodes and let the software determine the best route through existing raceways, considering different segregation criteria and cable routing methods.
Optimized Routing: The routing process accounts for distance, permitted cable types in each raceway, and the available capacity and weight that can be carried.
Adjustments: Quickly identify when the size or number of raceways needs to be adjusted based on routing results.

Generate Reports Automatically

Stay on schedule by leveraging Bentley’s automatic report generation capabilities:

Output Generation: Automatically generate essential output documents, including bills of quantity, raceway schedules, cable schedules, and cable pull cards.

Technical Capabilities Bentley Raceway and Cable Management

General/System Features

Project-based workflow
Project manager for global settings, file management
Collaboration manager (to control access)
Configurable Excel import module for existing design data
Concurrency control
Client/server architecture
Export to LumenRT
Clash Detection tool

Conceptual Design

Work preparation: import cable lists, load lists, node map
Build node model: place equipment nodes and routing nodes
Routing: auto-connect nodes, refine cable routes
Specification: size cables, analyze model, specify raceway material and accessories, specify space allocation
Reports: cable pull cards, cable list, cable drums, BOM, etc.
3D space allocation

3D Detailed Design

Raceway: raceway modeling, raceway categories, dividers, raceway IDs, raceway accessories, fix air gaps for auto-routing
Work preparation: import cable lists, load lists, node map
Equipment: equipment modeler, place equipment (junction boxes, cabinets, etc.), associate target IDs
Routing: manual and automatic
Reports: cable pull cards, cable list, cable drums, BOM, etc.
2D extraction: 2D drawings, cross section details and annotation, parallel section details and annotation
Duct bank design editing and reporting tools
Manhole placement editing tools
Cable trench design, editing and reporting tools
3D visualization of existing cables inside raceway systems

Raceway Functions

Parametric raceway engine
Interactive raceway routing
Automatically connect conduits from raceway to equipment
Raceway generator
Raceway ID tools
Raceway modification tools (insert, cut, extend, edit properties, etc.)
Cable fill calculation
Simultaneous placement of multiple raceway types and sizes
Reuse of raceway configurations for team collaboration
User interface for new raceway catalogs creation
Ability to edit and resize raceway easily
Raceway support and reporting tool

Cable Management & Routing Functions

Cable manager
Cable definition via direct input or imported XML and XLS file
AutoRouter (automatic routing)
Indication if selected autoroute is the shortest possible route to streamline review
Cable routing by category
Cable routing – constraint driven
Cable filtering capabilities based on different cable and equipment attributes
Manual cable routing
Tray divider support
Cable length calculation
Cable sizing by length and load
Cable fill and weight calculations
Color-coded raceway fill factor indicators

Reports and Other Output

Bills of materials
2D extractions – sections with dynamic details
Cable lists
Cable pull cards
Cable schedule report
Cable drums
Raceway schedule report
Cable status list
Raceway fill with cables report
Raceway labels
IFC export via iTwin® Services

Design Content

Cable libraries by manufacturers
Conduit libraries – trade sizes and manufacturers’ specialty libraries
Cell-based equipment from Components Center
Tray libraries
Ladder libraries
Basket libraries
Conduit body libraries

Integrate with other Bentley applications Bentley Raceway and Cable Management can exchange data with other Bentley products to eliminate data re-entry. Electrical equipment placed in OpenPlant Modeler can be imported into Bentley Raceway and Cable Management. This makes change management transparent and easy.

System Requirements Bentley Raceway and Cable Management

Bentley Raceway and Cable Management CONNECT Edition is a 64-bit application, compatible only with 64-bit Operating Systems.

Bentley Raceway and Cable Management supports Microsoft Office 64-bit and 32-bit versions. Microsoft Excel must be installed to import cable and equipment information from spreadsheets. Importing from .XLSX files is only possible when Excel 2010 or higher is installed.

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