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The overview diagram of the installation is very quickly realized by letting slide the symbols on the plan zone from the library or from the toolbar.
The graphic interface has been studied to represent quickly the installation plan. It has a synoptic grid of data entering (that can be disabled), the symbols have intelligent points of connections, the zoom level is almost infinite and a function Cancel/Restore on several levels allows to correct quickly any error without having to enter anything again.
Keyboard shortcuts help to duplicate all or any of an overview diagram, or even to copy/stick or to slide/put down an extract of the installation from another plan.
The location of the various elements of the overview diagram is realized in an automatic or manual way.
Supplies : HV/LV transformers, LV/LV transformers, Alternatosr, LV power supplies, Inverters
Connection : any types of busbar, any protections
Receivers : lighting, motive power, power points, resistivity loads
An essential and appreciated feature is the possibility of putting very quickly in a library all or any of an installation.
The user just has to select elements then to slide them simply in the tab representing the family of the intended library.
 The characteristics of an installation's various elements can be defined by default to optimize the data entering.
The various settings can be structured according to criteria chosen by the user, for example according to the customer or to the installation type.
It is at the start of a new project that the user chooses the necessary configuration.
The electric characteristics of elements are typed in a dialog box available by clicking on the represented element. A system of tabs allows quick navigation between each of the components of the chosen circuit.
The explorer is also available to process common properties to all selected symbols: for example, in a single manipulation, the user can indicate a common parameter to a subset of the installation like voltage of all supplies. 
A display of anomalies by a red ellipse informs the user of invalid parameters.
 Working modes can be chosen to manage the scripts of unballasting, with each of the protections of the installation set up to be either opened or closed.
The user defines the various modes by only choosing in the Explorer the active supplies and the unballastings for every mode. Supplies can be in different levels of the installation and of different power.
Working modes are definitively identified and re-calculated or checked for any modifications in the installation. This possibility brings considerable time-saving in the conception of the installation.
 Calculations can be automatic or manual:
In manual mode the user enters the various characteristics of the installation. The calculations are made in real-time and any anomaly is indicated to the user by a graphic tag.
The colour of the wrongly-sized element changes, the parameter at fault is indicated and a message points out the problem.
The automatic calculation helps to design a complete installation from the sizing parameters chosen by the user, particularly:
the acceptable maximal drop voltage, the constraints for conductors' choices and the constraints for neutral and PE conductor.
The user enters cable length, then Trace Elec Calc calculates all the installation set up according to the various functioning modes defined by the user.
 The calculation of installations with inverters is taken care of by Trace Elec Calc which can simulate any type of standby installations:
on batteries, automatic by-pass, manual by-pass. Different simulations of network loss, inverter maintenance, etc. can then be made.
 The balance sheet of power of the installation can be realized with Trace Elec Calc.
Loads can be described at every distributing frame, either in a global way, or by listing every receiver.
 Simultaneous coefficient, coefficient of potential extension, power factor and description of the polarity thus allow data entering of the different supplies of the installation.
 Selectivity is the coordination of automatic power break devices (totally or partially), so that a defect arising at some point of an installation is eliminated by the circuit breaker placed immediately upstream of this defect and by this one only.
Through Trace Elec Calc, you can take advantage of selectivity tables made available by manufacturers for their product range, which enable you, while choosing the references of a protection, to take into account an 'intelligent' selectivity, whatever the number of protection devices arranged upstream to the studied device.
 An installation has to take into account the reality of the existing equipments. Trace Elec Calc offers multi-manufacturers databases. According to the result of the calculations and the constraints requested by the user, Trace Elec Calc offers a range of references, amongst which the user can choose the most appropriate.
The availability of manufacturers' catalogues is a permanent process to ensure that our users have up-to-date references and that the largest number of manufacturers is represented through Trace Elec Calc.
The annual maintenance contract gives you access to updates all along your software use.
At the outcome of the software use the calculation notes are produced. They are necessary documents for the regulation controls and the installation production documents.
Printing on a printer
As required by law, the generated calculation notes represent a complete file, both for the inspectors and for the installation's manager who has plans, calculation notes and cable book available.
Different possibilities of export
The elements of plan and calculation can be easily exported in various formats to be used by another software or to be integrated into installation or control files, such as follow:
 Installation plan export to DWG format
Singlewire plan export to the industrial electrical installation design software Trace Elec Pro
Singlewire plan export to DWG format:
- automatic generation of folios in DWG format
- configurable export by the user to export all information into AutoCAD attributes.
 The calculation methods used in Trace Elec Calc are based, for France, on the UTE C15-500 guide in conformity with the regulations of the NF C 15-100. For Belgium Trace Elec Calc applies the R064-003 report of the European CENELEC guide in accordance with the regulations of the RGIE.
The interpretations of standards and guides were realized by a technical committee set up by electric specialists of calculation in the group APAVE and by Belgian engineering offices.
The calculations taking into account inverters were realized with inverters builders, in particular the companies SOCOMEC and LIEBERT.
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Trace Elec Calc takes into account internal High Voltage connections of the installation.
The actual power in the transformer's terminals is then calculated and the thermal constraints of HV cables are controlled. These calculations use the standards NF C 13-100 AND NF C 13-200.
Languages and international norms |
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Trace Elec Calc is an international product which takes into account 3 factors:
norms and regulation in use in the country where the installation is.
The language of software use.
The language of calculation note creation.
Please do not hesitate to take contact with Trace Software to know norms and languages implemented at the software purchase date.
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