Cable Tray Assistant Plugin
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Cable Tray Assistant Plugin is a must-have Autodesk® AutoCAD® Plant 3D™ plugin explicitly designed to enhance the functionality of cable tray and support modeling tools previously published by us. If you're already using these tools, you'll soon realize the need for a more robust and user-friendly modeling environment. Tray Assistant is the perfect solution to elevate your designs by improving workflow efficiency and design precision.
Key Features:
- Enhance Cable Tray Auto-Placement: Tray Assistant seamlessly integrates with our Tray and Support plugins, automating the modeling process with precision and ease. Save hours of manual placement by auto-routing trays like pipes, adjusting segment lengths as desired, extending trays directly from existing components' anchor points, auto-renaming components for unique BOM identification, and exporting your data in properly formatted Excel sheets.
- Customization Options: Tailor Tray Assistant's features to your specific needs. The plugin remembers your settings, ensuring that you can pick up right where you left off in multiple sessions without losing any configurations.
- Intuitive User Interface: Tray Assistant adds interactive buttons to your Ribbon for an easy and efficient workflow.
- Content Rich Support: Tray Assistant is packed with detailed help materials accessible directly from the Ribbon. Visualize each function's workflow through short video demos and access the relevant sections of the help document to guide you through every step.
Important Note:
- Tray Assistant isn’t a standalone tool. Instead, it’s a powerful assistant that amplifies the capabilities of our Parametric Cable Tray Plugin and Parametric Cable Tray Support Plugin. It enables you to model cable trays and their supports faster, more accurately, and with greater ease. Perfect for designers and engineers, Tray Assistant takes your workflow efficiency, design accuracy, and project deliverability to new heights.
- This plugin uses a custom installer (and not the standard App Store installer)
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Note: This app uses a custom installer (and not the standard App Store installer).
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버전 1.1.0, 2025-06-06
- All components were included in tray commands (where the command requires selection of multiple or all components), and the command operation is applied to all of them, whether the component is hidden or even on the locked or invisible layer. This has now been updated. Only visible and editable components (i.e., unlocked) are included in the operations of every tray command. This feature gives more robust control to the user.
- Fuse Connection command was successfully fusing the components, but the fused connectors were placed on the active layer, which was causing issues in the generation of Isometric drawings. The issue has now been fixed. The fused connectors remain in the layer where their components reside.
- Export features encountered an error when the collection of exportable components included PIPE in this list. The issue is now fixed. Now, even if the PIPE or other PIPING Components (other than the tray, of course) are selected, then the export command will export only tray components and skip the rest. This has allowed users more control and flexibility. The user can simply Select All (Ctrl + A) and export.
- The uninstaller was removing the Settings File from the system, which was not an issue if the user decided to uninstall the program. However, when a new version is released and the user intends to upgrade, the new version installer first uninstalls the previous version and consequently deletes the Setting File, which is an undesirable behavior. The installer is now updated. Now, when the user uninstalls or updates to a newer version, the installer shall prompt for consent to retain or remove the Settings File. This upgrade has given users the authority to choose whether to retain or delete the Setting File.
- As we constantly provide our users with new features in our plugins, compatibility with older versions was felt necessary, especially since Cable Tray Assistant works on Cable Tray and Support plugins. To achieve this, a compatibility listener has been added to the plugin commands. The minimum version threshold is currently set to v1.6.1 for Cable Tray and v1.0.1 for the Support plugin. If the user has not yet upgraded to newer versions of the respective plugins and has installed the upgraded version of Cable Tray Assistant, this upgrade would work within the boundaries of the older versions of those plugins. However, if the user has already upgraded these plugins beyond their minimum threshold, the Cable Tray Assistant would work with the re-defined boundaries and upgrades of these plugins.
This plugin delivers exactly what Plant 3D has been missing when it comes to cable tray design. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and integrates seamlessly into the modeling environment. The automation and snapping features work smoothly, and it saves a ton of time compared to manual methods.
I’ve tried several workarounds in the past, but this is by far the most efficient and reliable solution I’ve found. You can tell a lot of thought went into its development. Great work by the developer — this is now a permanent part of my toolset.
This plugin has significantly streamlined my workflow in AutoCAD Plant 3D. The interface is intuitive, and the tray modeling process is much faster and more efficient now. It handles alignment and placement with precision, and the features are well thought-out for real-world project needs.
As someone deeply involved in electrical raceway and cable tray system design, I truly appreciate the level of detail and practicality this plugin offers. It’s clear that it was developed by someone with hands-on industry experience.
Highly recommended for anyone working with tray systems in Plant 3D!