Cable Drums

Wiring Manager supports cable drumming (the assignment of cables to cable drums).

Project cable drums can be created, edited and viewed from the Cable Drum Schedule. Cables can be created and edited "manually" (see Create Cable Drums Manually), or by importing them from an Excel spreadsheet (see Importing Cables Drums from Excel). As part of these processes, cables can be assigned to the drums.

Wiring Manager also includes an auto-drumming facility (see Auto-Cable Drum). Using this facility, cables can be automatically assigned to drums using an algorithm to minimize any unused cable based on each cable's length and the catalog drum length. New drums may be created as part of this process if they are required.

Individual cables may also be assigned to existing drums from the Cable Schedule. See Assign Cables to Drums from the Cable Schedule.