About Generating Panel Schedules

Automatically generate panel schedules for electrical drawings.

You can generate panel schedules for a single drawing, or for circuits that span multiple drawings. Once generated, you can continue to add devices to circuits, or even new circuits and panels.

When you make changes to your drawings that affect the information in a panel schedule, the panel schedule will need updating. Such changes include:

• Adding and deleting circuits
• Deleting a panel
• Linking or unlinking panels
• Attaching or detaching devices to/from a circuit
• Changing the number of load categories used by the panel
• Changing the phase load of a device
• Changing circuit properties, such as rating or description
• Changing panel properties, such as panel name, rating, or wires

Any change to a panel, circuit, or device that makes a panel schedule’s data invalid is noted by a line drawn through that panel schedule. When a schedule becomes out of date, you must update it. You can ensure that the panel data is accurate by executing either a REGEN command, when loads increase/decrease, or an Update Panel Schedule command when you need to add or remove schedule entries. You can select the schedule, right-click, and select Update Panel Schedule from the context menu. Actions that can make a panel schedule out of date include:

• Adding or deleting circuits
• Linking or unlinking panels
• Changing load categories
• Reloading an updated electrical project database
• An externally referenced file uses an electrical project database that is older than the one referenced in the current drawing