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all you need to create your diagrams, or if you are more comfortable using
a CAD application for drafting tasks, you can link a CAD-generated diagram
into your project.
Tips for Creating Power Diagrams
It is best to have a library of commonly used symbols to facilitate quick
and easy creation of your power diagram. Symbols for items such as panels,
transformers, grounding components, and generators can easily be created
and stored for future projects. These symbols can contain parameters that
make it easy for you to schedule and manage changes to the component
data.
Consider creating a detail section view of your switchboard equipment or
main distribution panel as the starting point for your diagram. In this view,
you can turn off any linked files and worksets that do not need to be shown,
leaving you with an elevation view of your equipment and the project levels,
which are typically shown on riser diagrams.
Symbols can then be placed into this detail view to represent the electrical
distribution equipment. Detail lines can be drawn in the view to represent
the connection between elements. You can use the power of Revit to create
linetypes specific to your needs for electrical diagrams to increase your
efficiency when drafting. Although the symbols and linework are not tied
to the model elements that they represent, you are able to coordinate data
required in both places without having to switch between applications.
Figure 13.29
shows an example of a power diagram created by using an
elevation view of the switchboard, symbols, text, and detail lines.
