Electrical Power Distribution with AUTOCAD, DIALux & Etap

Overviews the power system, covering generation, transmission, and distribution, with step up and step down transformers, voltage levels, three-phase star connections, earth safety, and GIS SF6 insulation.

Understand transposed towers and phase repositioning to equalize voltages, analyze how phase distance affects capacitance and voltage, and explore puddling, corona, frontier effect, and skin effect in power transmission.

Define interior and exterior lighting design requirements. Select lamps accordingly, using luminous flux, lux, illuminance, and lamp efficacy concepts to optimize energy use.

Explore how color rendering index and color temperature influence lighting design, and examine the stroboscopic effect caused by alternating current to understand motion perception in lighting.

Identify lamp types—incandescent, halogen, fluorescent (60 cm 18 W; 120 cm 36 W), compact fluorescent, and LED; note power and distortion. Outline mounting options: surface, suspended, wall mounted, recessed.

Learn to design interior lighting by calculating required lumens using LLF and UAF, accounting for lamp depreciation, dirt, surface dust, outages, and voltage variation.

The lecture presents a practical interior lighting design for a classroom, calculating luminaire quantity and a 3 by 4 distribution to achieve 300 lux using 18-watt lamps, with spacing rules.

Get a practical AutoCAD overview, work on a design in 2013, learn to zoom, pan, and hide lines, and save the file as AutoCAD 2007 for compatibility.

this overview teaches using dialux for indoor lighting calculations, including downloading and installing the program, using philips catalogs for luminaries, applying locks, and preparing autocad designs for lighting layouts.

Design a first Dialux lighting layout for a conference room by defining dimensions, choosing a fluorescent recessed luminaire, applying a 0.8 correction factor, and validating with E average and uniformity.

design and evaluate lighting layouts for a new room and a corridor using dialux, selecting lohmann luminaires, applying a correction factor, and verifying 400 lux targets.

Design a lighting system for a multi-room space using the Dialux polygon method, selecting luminaires and verifying 300 lux targets through calculations and single-sheet outputs.

Design a bathroom in Dialux by setting room dimensions, lighting power factor, and lux targets, then generate a single sheet output and verify calculations for acceptance.

Explore emergency lighting design, calculating emergency loads and luminaire requirements, including 25 percent sizing, hospital 100 percent rules for critical rooms, and room-specific averages.

Design an emergency lighting system in Dialux for a room by selecting 25 percent of luminaires, forming a control group, and using live scenes to verify lux and non-uniform distribution.

Explore how to customize Dialux defaults, set metric units and imperial options, and configure mounting heights, line arrangements, and down ceiling scenarios for wall-mounted luminaires.

Use the blue icon for quick, small one-room designs in Dialux, entering room dimensions, selecting luminaire families, and adjusting luminaires until the average lux target is met.

learn to select street lighting layouts—single side, Taggert, and opposite arrangements—based on street width and mounting height, and compute lamp spacing and utilization factors from data sheets.

Design street lighting with hps, mercury, and led lamps; size 16 mm2 aluminum four-core cable for three-phase; calculate 150 w at 220 v to determine luminaires per phase.

Design street lighting in Dialux by selecting suitable luminaire types from data sheets, set the street width and mounting height, and apply a 0.72 maintenance factor for outdoor projects.

Determine playground lighting by area and type, select metal halide or led luminaires, apply suitable distribution, place corner poles, and adjust luminaire output to achieve target lux for each playground.

Design tennis playground lighting in Dialux by defining exterior dimensions, placing luminaires with precise spacing, and verifying lux levels on a 3d model to meet a target of 250 lux.

Learn essential AutoCAD commands for electrical design, including selecting and editing individual objects, scaling with base points, creating blocks, copying, drawing lines and perpendicular lines, applying hatch, and dimensioning.

Learn essential AutoCAD orders for electrical distribution design, including stretch, rotate, mirror, erase, array, measure area, insert text, and measure distance.

Master AutoCAD layer management by organizing objects into layers, controlling visibility with on/off, freeze, and lock, and configuring colors and line styles. Divide lines into segments and view division points.

Learn how to convert a Dialux design to an AutoCAD design by exporting to dxf, selecting the rooms to export, and pasting with a base point into the original file.

Replace existing AutoCAD luminaire symbols with popular blocks, adjust their scale (0.5 for the generic type, 0.3 for LED blocks), and position them using base points to fit the design.

Insert autocad luminaires symbols using method 2, place lines to outline rooms, divide segments to match luminaire count, and adjust symbol size via the pt command.

Learn to insert AutoCAD luminaires in corridors by drawing lines, setting segment counts, and placing luminaires at six metre intervals using measure and division, then remove construction lines to finalize.

Learn the wiring diagram basics for electrical power distribution, including distribution boards, mains and small circuit breakers, busbars, and line, neutral, earth connections.

Place and scale distribution panels in AutoCAD to fit electrical rooms and floors, name them by floor and panel, and assign a lumineers layer for organization.

design a wiring diagram in AutoCAD by placing lumineers on ceilings, routing wires through electrical tubes, and organizing elements on wiring, lumineers, and distribution layers.

Explore electrical switch types and properties used in distribution, including one-way and two-way configurations with single or multiple gangs. Learn how frames and patterns control loads across different groups.

Learn to design electrical switch diagrams in AutoCAD by inserting switches, creating two gangs for loads, drawing dashed lines, and labeling each group for clear, controlled circuits.

Explore electrical sockets types, including normal and power sockets for single-phase and three-phase systems with five terminals. Learn practical circuit calculations for line and neutral wiring, and understand circuit breakers.

Design and place electrical sockets in AutoCAD, separating lighting and sockets layers, sizing double and single sockets, and wiring circuits to the distribution board across rooms.

Design an emergency lighting system in AutoCAD by creating an emergency wiring layer, wiring luminaires, and labeling the distribution panel on the second floor.

Learn standard electrical symbols and their definitions for AutoCAD shop drawings, including panel boards, lighting, sockets, earthing, and fluorescent lamps, and how to compile a legend.

Identify circuit breaker types and operating conditions, including no-load, overload, and short-circuit scenarios; examine fixed and movable contacts, magnetic and thermal elements, insulation media, and breaking capacity.

Identify circuit breakers by voltage level and type, including low, medium, and high voltage, and explore miniature, molded case, and air breakers with insulation media like oil, vacuum, SF6.

Learn how to select circuit breakers for single and three-phase loads using kVA and kW. Explore derated currents, standard values, adjustable breakers, and fuse options for transformers.

Learn about cable types and construction, comparing solid and stranded designs—single, double, three-core, and four-core—along with conductors, insulation (PVC or XLPE), outer semiconductors, metallic sheath, armor, filler, and grounding.

Explore how to design and calculate power cables, from determining the number of cores, conductor construction, and installation type, to reading cross-sectional areas and short-circuit currents.

calculate voltage drop in medium voltage networks to verify cable cross-sectional area using data sheets, and assess short-circuit current with transformers, cables, and circuit breakers.

Analyze voltage drop on each segment using Etap with the adaptive neoteny method, run a load study, and observe voltage and power changes across the system.

Install Etap 12.6 and build a single-line diagram to perform short circuit current calculations, adjusting standards, transformers, cables, and circuit breakers for accurate fault analysis.