AVEVA Cable Design Data Interface

The design length of cables can be imported from AVEVA Cable Design (from E3D projects), for comparison purposes with the lengths of cables as recorded in Wiring Manager. The design lengths can be used to update the estimate lengths of cables if required (see Update Estimated Cable Lengths with Design Lengths).

Route data is also transferred between E3D and Instrumentation: cable start and end data is exported to E3D. From this the route of a cable can be established in E3D. This route data, that means, the cable way node points that a cable passes through is transferred back to Instrumentation for information purposes.

As well as length and route data, cable status data is also passed between E3D and Instrumentation, in both directions. The status of a cable indicates whether or not a cable has been routed, drummed, drummed and locked, frozen, and whether the route needs to be checked.

The full list of route statuses is as follows:

• 0 - Un-routed

• 1 - Routed

• 2 - Routing Failed

• 3 - Partially Routed

• 4 - Partially Failed

• 5 - Manually Routed

• 6 - Drummed

• 7 - Drummed Locked

• 8 - Check Route

• 9 - Cable Frozen

Design data can either be transferred for individual cables, or in bulk for multiple cables.

Note: Cables that are frozen or that are on a locked drum cannot be updated.