If you work in electrical design and planning in the UK, you have to make sure everything has a logical progression, nothing is missed along the way, and there are minimal errors and design conflicts to deal with. If you’re already using electrical design software to make the whole process faster, easier, and more accurate, our guess is that you’re probably using Revit.
However, if you’ve been using Revit alone for your electrical system designs, you might have noticed that there’s a lot of manual work, data transfer and rework that goes into the process. If you’re looking for options to streamline the process, reduce the amount of work required, increase accuracy and reduce design errors, then adding Stabicad to your design workflow might be exactly what’s needed. Here’s what you need to know.
Traditional design limitations in Revit
The biggest problem with using Revit to design electrical systems is that it’s not a specialist solution.
In fact, if you’re like most people, you will probably start in Revit, then do some of the design by hand, put some into AutoCAD, export some figures and then import them into Excel for analysis and verification, and then finally put it all back into Revit.
There’s a good chance that you might even have to bring out the scale ruler at some point during the process.
In a world where construction design technology is supposed to make the process easier and help us avoid data transfer errors, there’s a lot that could go wrong with a patchwork process like that, and it still takes a lot longer than most of us would like.
