How to use plugin

This plugin is designed for Windows 7, or a higher 64-bit environment. After the plugin installation begins you will see the installing message.

After finishing installing the plugin and starting Revit, you will see the message for load-related plugin DLL file.

You should choose the (Always Load) button to load the plugin with each Revit start, or (Load once) to ask you again after each Revit start.

To start select E.M.V.P.C. select the Add-Ins ribbon tabs and click on the “Medium Voltage Electric Power Cables” button.

The Medium Voltage Electric Power Cables database will be loaded.

Now you can select your cable from more than three hundred cables type and click the Load button to start adding the following:-

1-     Create New Cable instance type with selected cable name (you must have “Rigid Nonmetallic Conduit (RNC Sch 40)”) in your Conduits Families.

2-     Create New Electrical standard with selected cable name.

Now you have a new cable type added in Conduits Families.

And you have a new Electrical Standard with cable name, cable overall diameter and preferred bend radius according to the British Standard.

Before you can begin to draw the cable, you should do the following steps:-

1-     Double-click on your cable from Families – Conduits

2-     Change standard to corresponding cable standard (Same cable name)

3-     Right click on cable form Families – Conduits, select Create instance, and go drawing your cable.

4-     Do the same for each your design cable type.

After finishing, you can create your own cable schedule with standard, (Family and type), length …. Etc.

Installation from setup file and uninstallation from Add/Remove programs.