DDS-CAD Electrical - Features

Fast, Efficient and Comprehensive
While other packages may provide support for some elements of electrical design, DDS-CAD Electrical provides the widest set of functionality available on the market today. From power distribution and containment, to lighting and fire and security alarms, data and telecoms, EIB bus-system, audio-visual and speaker systems. This means that the building's entire electrical installation can be designed and fully documented from a single electrical cad package, improving accuracy, ensuring the installation is fully co-ordinated, and boosting your productivity.

For more information on the features available in DDS-CAD Electrical, see the features list for more details in the product brochure which you can download here:

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Powerful Features Save you Time and Money

Integrated calculations ensure design integrity is maintained during the life-cycle of the project, improving productivity and reducing errors incurred during manual translation to and from external design programs.

DDS-CAD Electrical has built in tools for calculating cable sizes, and short circuit analysis. It also includes a lighting design tool which uses the lumen method calculation to estimate the required number and distribution of fittings in a space. If you need more powerful lighting design analysis, the program has a bidirectional interface with industry leading tools from Dialux and Relux.

Comprehensive Project Documentation

With DDS-CAD Electrical you can quickly and efficiently create:

• 2D drawings and 3D visualisations
• schematic circuit diagrams
• schedules
• quantities

Plus a host of project management documents such as revision lists, drawing lists and distribution lists, directly from the program.

Intelligent layer grouping allows you to create multiple, discipline specific drawings from the model, for example lighting, alarm systems, data and telecoms. A change to the project can affect many of these drawings; with Electrical Partner you make the change once, and all the documentation can be re-created without having to alter many separate drawings.

Multi-User Design Environment

MEP design for a project can be carried out by large teams concurrently on a single project file. Your colleagues’ design updates can be seen immediately in context with your own work. Making design co-ordination simple and efficient to achieve, enhancing productivity, while reducing errors and costly rework.

Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Collision Detection

Reduce errors, avoid rework on site, and reduce risk with DDS-CAD Electrical’s built-in collision detection functionality. This allows you to co-ordinate the design of the electrical services with the mechanical and plumbing services, when used in a multi-disciplinary project. This leads to a higher reliability of design, allowing for more off-site prefabrication, at better quality and lower cost

Automatic, Configurable Bills of Quantity

One of the key benefits of modelling is that when you have created the model, you do not just have a drawing to give to the installation team or construction partners, but you have also produced a database of components for the project which can be used to develop cost estimates and schedules. No more manual estimation of components on printed drawings, and the attendant risks of over or under estimation of the quantities. The quantity output can be exported directly into an estimating or job costing package.

Visualisation and Presentation

The software provides you with the ability to visualise the design prior to construction, using our advanced rendering and animation tools. These tools allow you to consider value engineering, and to investigate construction sequencing, at an early stage of the design. They are also valuable for non-technical client presentations, which improves communication, leading to fewer call-backs, and lower warranty costs.