| Product(s): | Bentley Raceway & Cable Management | |
| Version(s): | CONNECT Edition 10.09.00.74 Onwards | |
| Environment: | N/A | |
| Area: | Cable Routing | |
| Subarea: | N/A | |
Background
In Bentley Raceway & Cable Management, Cable Routing settings that controls the automatic selection of nearby raceway routes can be adjusted. A bounding sphere, at the equipment, is used by the automatic cable routing function to determine possible cable routes. When a raceway route intersects any part of a bounding sphere, those routes are a valid cable routing path to the equipment. Therefore, a raceway route does not necessarily need to connect directly to the equipment for the path to be consider as a valid cable routing path.
Steps To Accomplish
- Launch Bentley Raceway & Cable Management CONNECT Edition.
Select WorkSpace and WorkSet and open ROUTING.dgn.

- Click Cable Manager tool in Equipment & Cable ribbon tab, Cables ribbon group.

- From Manage ribbon group in the ribbon menu, Click on Collaboration Manager.

- In Collaboration Manager, right click, then Select All and Request lock.

- Cables are now loaded in the Cable Manager.

- In Cable Manager, select all the cables using the checkbox at the topmost row and click on Auto Connect from Cable ribbon group in the ribbon menu.

Note: The Auto Connect function will create the orthogonal connection between the source and target equipment and populate the length field with the shortest orthogonal length.

- From the Cable ribbon group in the ribbon menu, Click on Auto Route.

- As it is evident from the example, that all the Cable Routes except the two got successful.
Press OK and proceed.

- In the Cable Manager it is easy to find the reason of Automatic Routing failure from Info property column.

- From the Cable Manager, it is evident that the Routing Mode is Automatic Routing.

