General

A duct route is an organised grouping of components of the category “Duct/Route”.

The arrangement of the elements is basically free, however, there are sorting algorithms sorting the elements into a continuous route using their end locations.

 

An duct route possesses the following characteristics:

Characteristic

Type

Description

Name

Text (50)

Name of duct route.

Description

Text (256)

Any description.

Type

Duct route type

See below

Status

Status

Status of duct route; please refer to Chapter “Library”.

Owner

Organisation

Company group, company, department or person that owns the duct route.

Used by

Organisation

Company group, company, department or person that uses the duct route.

A location

Location

Corresponds to the A location of the first component of the duct route.  

A component

Component

Corresponds to the A component of the first element.

Z location

Location

Corresponds to the Z location of the last component of the duct route.

Z component

Component

Corresponds to the Z component of the last element.

Elements

Components

Components with defined order; build the content of the duct route; see below.

Duct route type

In ConnectMaster, the user can define any number of duct route types to describe a duct route more accurately. The duct route can then be allocated a type from the list of predefined types.

 

Definition

An duct route type possesses the following characteristics:

 

Characteristic

Type

Description

Name

Text (40)

Name of type; does not need to be unique.

Description

Text (256)

Abbreviation

Text (10)

Type abbreviation.

 

Content of duct route

The content of an duct route can be created in different ways:

•The elements can be additionally or removed manually.

•All elements of another duct route can be loaded.  

•The entire path of a location network can be stored in a duct route as a result of the filter “Routing duct”. Please also refer to Chapter and/or „Routing duct.

 

Sequence

The elements can be automatically lined up using the component locations. The sequence can also be changed manually at any time.

 

Statistics

Different evaluations can be performed for duct routes:

•Duct routes:  For every duct, the number of free slots per level can be evaluated.