CHAPTER 7

7 Cable Rack Support

This chapter explains how to create a Cable Rack Support. The procedure and the form for creating a
Framework are similar to those used when creating a Multi Discipline Support.

7.1 Creation of a Cable Rack Support

To create a Cable Tray Support, select the Framework icon, located within the Create group on the
SUPPORTS tab to display the Frameworks gallery.

The top section of the gallery contains thumbnails of all the Cable Tray Frameworks available within the
project.

7.2 Initial Creation

Before proceeding with the creation of the support, ensure that all of the Cable Racks to be supported, and
any Steelwork and/or Panels the support is to be attached to, are shown in the 3D view.

There are two possible element types that can be handled using the Cable Support, these are:

• Tray elements which were defined as PIPE in the hierarchy.

• CTRAY elements owned by CWAY.

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If the PIPE method of Cable Tray is used the following must be allowed for:

 The PURPOSE attribute of the owning ZONE, which MUST be set to TRAY, and

 The Cable Tray Specification has a PURPOSE attribute, which MUST also be set to TRAY.

After selecting one of the standard Cable Tray frameworks from the gallery, the Prompt message on the
top centre of the screen will prompt the user to ‘Identify tray section of datum cable rack or support’.

Graphical selection of a cable tray straight to be supported, will display the Ancillary Selection form which
allows the user to select an individual ancillary from the selection available for the project. There are a few
simple ancillary supports available on Cable Tray supports. This is because in most cases the fixings to the
support steel framework are regarded as being supplied by the Cable Tray contractor.

After selecting an ancillary, the support is created and the ancillary is represented by a temporary ‘lollipop’
symbol. This ‘lollipop’ is only shown for ease of identification when creating or modifying a Cable Tray
support. When the support creation is completed the ‘lollipop’ symbol(s) will disappear.

The Support Editor form is also displayed which is similar to the one used for Multi Discipline Framework
creation/modification

The Cable Tray support may be modified in the same way as a Multi Discipline Support.

The Support Health Check Utility form will run automatically after clicking on the Apply button in the
Support Editor form.

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Exercise 6 – Cable Tray Supports

Perform the following task:

1. Add FRMW AREA02_WS_CLADDING_RAILS to the 3D View

2. Create the Cable Tray support shown below use XCT01 – L Bracket Up. The support shown is at
the east end of Cable tray CTRAY-WORKSHOP which can be found in Zone ZONE-CTRAY-
AREA02-WORKSHOP of Site SITE-CABLE-AREA02. This framework needs to be built on
GENSEC 2 of FRMW AREA02_WS_CLADDING_RAILS.

Set the support creation zone to ZONE-SUPPORTS-AREA02-WORKSHOP from the Storage area.

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