Progress over the years and a blog reboot!

September 2019: BLOG REBOOT!

Some background history, we began learning Inventor and Vault while trying to to use Inventor to model substation in 2014.  Was a hard row to hoe, due to lack of experience with both Inventor and electrical substations.

Circa 2014

First example was from 2014, We were only working on the high bay portion of the substation. The client was doing everything on the other side of the transformer.  See the window below for a "shared" model which was posted on the BIM360 cloud.
   

Circa 2017

Skip ahead a few years to 2017 and we were able to utilize Inventor and the Substation Design Suite for another substation project for a different client.  Again only working on the high bay portion of the substation.

Circa 2019

We had some modeling resources available in 2019 and were able to model up the low bay side of the client from 2014.  Working on a different substations.  Mostly all above ground, but have begun to utilize the below ground tools available with the Substation Design Suite.

Conduit Modeling...

We have begun to incorporate the conduit portion, at least attempting to document the underground portion for the client in parallel with the 2D drawing creation.

Substation Steel Structures...

We also created a new 25kV circuit breaker bypass stand for this client.  Modeling and detailing drawings were all created with Inventor.

Assembly Drawing

Fabrication Drawing

Custom iLogic and VBA code is utilized to extract the gross material weight and to properly match the company drawing format.

Next weeks post...

The next post will cover pushing custom iProperties into a user parameter and then using the value in a user parameter to show the value with a part feature. It does not seem possible to push an iProperty value into a sketch in a part, but you can push a parameter into a part sketch.

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Trying to document what we've learned so that it will not be forgotten by those who follow.