WireWorks v7 updates.

Workflow

1. Conduit Routing - Draw your initial conduit runs.

   
   
   
2. Finding Your Conduit - Select at least a piece of your run(s) and click the Check Rows based on Selection button in the Data Manager. This will check the corresponding rows in the Data Manager. You can also run this function in the inverse by checking rows in the Data Manager and then clicking the Locate Selected button.
   
   
   
   
3. Conduit Run Data - Use the Data Manager to start entering identifying data into the conduits. This data propagates into the conduits, conduit fittings, and conduit runs.
   
   
   
4. Conduit Splitting - Split your conduit runs using our suite of splitting and coupling related tools.
   
   
   
5. Auto Numbering - Use the Auto Numbering routines to give each segment a unique and useful value. This can be done as you split, in the data table on selected conduit rows, or on clicking to control the sequencing. The way you use it will depend on how you like to process your conduit naming. Some like to do it as they split, others like to do them in bulk afterwards. 
   
   
   
6. Preparing for Bend Sheets - Using a filtered search, grouping of choice like an area parameter, or a selection from the model, isolate the conduit bend sheets that you want to generate. Now just click the View Selected Bend Sheets button.
   
   
   
7. Bend Sheets - Use Bend Sheets to quickly and accurately bend conduits designed in Revit.
   

Dock

1. The Dock gives users the ability to quickly see and access all the available tools and settings from one elegant location. This is broken down into two tabs along the bottom where you can manage either placing couplings or managing data and producing bend sheets. This dockable window can be disconnected from the active Revit window to give you all the real estate you need. The blue expander arrows allow you to limit the dock down to just the commands or can give you access to the on-demand Conduit Length values.
   
   
2. Supports native access to on-demand conduit length data. These can be accessed by selecting conduit parts and runs and clicking the refresh button.
   
   
   

   1. Conduit Run Length - Displays the full length of the selected conduit runs including couplings, bends, and unions. For example, this could be from panel to panel or equipment to junction box. It is the length as if you had tab-selected the run.

   2. Conduit Stock Length - Displays the length of the selected conduit straights and bends, excluding gaps from couplings and unions.

   3. Length of Selection - Displays the lengths of the items selected.
      
      

3. Data Manager - By using the Data Manager, you can drive the data you want into the parameters of your choice. You can also bi-directionally switch between the data table and back to the conduits in the model. The Data Manager is furthermore the place from where you will generate Bend Sheet files.
   
   
   

Application Settings

1. Built to support almost all user types when speaking about conduit in Revit. Conduit with or without fittings is supported, minus a few things like the on-demand Conduit Length data.
   
   
   

2. All you need to do is tell us which parameters from your elbow families contain the length of straight conduit coming off the bent radius. In the stock Revit conduit fitting families this is called “Conduit Length”, so if that’s what you use just make your settings look like the settings above.
   
   
   

3. In the Data Management tab of the Application Settings, you can choose which parameters are visible on the data table as well as give them custom column header names. You can choose a primary sorting column from here by checking the box next to your parameter of choice.  Use the arrows to move a parameter up or down and the trash can icon to remove one entirely.
   
   
   

4. You can see in this screenshot that the defined parameters show up in their respective orders in the Data Manager. In addition to that, you will always see the Size, Length, and Bends columns.
   
   
   

5. The Bend Options settings are all about controlling how dimensions are going to be referenced in the Bend Sheet text files. This table gives you control based on the conduit Type and Size. If you need more than one Offset per material and size, you will need to create another type.
   
   
   

6. Most people like their bend marks to be drawn at the end of the bender shoe hook. In this image, a zero length Offset would get you a mark at the location of the arrow on this bender. A zero-length offset represents a bend mark exactly where the radius of the bend starts. If you wanted your mark to show up at the end of the hook on the left, you would need to measure your tooling and determine that offset length.
   
   
   

Split Settings

1. Built to support both imperial and metric unit Standards. This can be toggled with the radio buttons in the Split Settings.
   
   
   

   1. The Minimum Length setting gives the user control, when placing couplings, of the minimum length of conduit that will be left connected between the connector of the conduit bend and the connecter of the coupling once placed. So how much of a tangential piece of conduit is left on the end of the conduit bend before the coupling.

   2. The Maximum Length setting gives the user control, when placing couplings, of the maximum length of conduit and conduit fittings between two couplings or between couplings and conduit ends. You can think of this like the stock length setting which is the length we are trying to hit when placing couplings.

   3. The Round Conduit Length setting give the split tools a goal for rounding conduit run lengths between couplings. This establishes more of an affinity for those nice rounded lengths when you cannot get a full Maximum Length out of a section of conduit but will be bound to the geometry.

   4. If you draw a piece of conduit that is 11' 8-3/64" long with a Maximum Length setting of 10', you will have at least one 10’ segment. The rounding will not change the fact that the second segment will be 11' 8-3/64" long.

Align Couplings

The Align Couplings tool allows you to align a set of selected couplings on parallel conduits to a reference coupling.

To use the Align Couplings tool:

1. Select multiple couplings on parallel conduit runs.

2. Click the Align Couplings button or use your mapped keyboard shortcut to initiate the tool.

3. Select a reference coupling to converge the other selected couplings to the reference coupling's plane.