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Substation Assemblies for

Inventor

Arnold Fry Justin EyreManager, Transmission Standards Engineering Technologist

Standard Substation Design

Duke Energy

In this class, we examine substation assemblies and models for a

utility. We also look into the lifecycle for substation parts in

Autodesk® Vault Professional software. We cover the use of “Items”

to keep track of information, such as purchase price, basic impulse

level (BIL), operating voltage, specification information, and more.

We discuss how to work in Inventor software and how to use the

released bias or non-released bias to an assembly for insertion into

your model. Finally, we examine how to keep track of legacy designs

and greenfield designs in a standard format.

Class summary

At the end of this class, you will be able to:

Establish required custom properties for parts and assemblies based

upon Enterprise Asset Management attribute templates.

Define standard values for required properties by creating

enforceable lists inside Vault Professional.

Creating and editing items for parts and assemblies.

Create item defined parts and assemblies by attaching to parent

items.

Key learning objectives

Duke Energy

Transmission Engineering

5 Engineering Offices

(Charlotte, Raleigh,

Lake Mary, Plainfield,

Cincinnati)

•Over 7700 Electrical

Substations in 6

states

Substation Creation

Where to start a substation

A standard assembly

The ground plane is the

X-Y plane

Start with the foundations

Foundations need to be

constrained to the ground

plane and offset from the

vertical plans

Foundation

Catalog items get constrained

to the to the foundations

Adding catalog items

They are premade assemblies that can be used within a substation.

They include structures and equipment arrangements

What are catalog items

Structures

Equipment arrangement

Low-Side

Fence

Fence

Ground Grid

Ground Grid

Conduit

Connect from

equipment to pull box

Give length

Show connections

Tube and Pipe

Tube and Pipe

Connect catalog

components together

Calculates cable lengths

Drawings

Drawings

Transmission Engineering

5 Engineering Offices

(Charlotte, Raleigh,

Lake Mary, Plainfield,

Cincinnati)

•Over 7700 Electrical

Substations in 6

states

Drawings

Drawings

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