The ECAV Drawings
The ECAV Project Phase Drawing Process
Each ECAV drawing page type is purposefully designed to correspond to its project phase allowing you to provide the required documents before the project phase begins.
Project SetupTitle Page - Company and project information.
Enter new project information on the title page’s data window. This automatically adds project information on the title page and title blocks of each drawing page.
DesignAV Floor Plan Page(s) - Conveys to all project stakeholders the conceptual design and location of all key AV devices on the property.
From the seventeen ECAV system category symbol libraries, design the project layout by dropping symbols on the client’s architectural floor plan. As with all ECAV symbols, these symbols can then be linked to product data, transformed into other symbol types (Copy Shapes feature), and stored for future use.Symbols on any of the drawing pages can represent specific real-world products. ECAV makes it easy to link your symbols to the provided example spreadsheet of product specification data. Just add new data rows for your products, refresh the data, and link to your device symbols on any of the drawings. The linked symbols are used for visualizing the data in your drawings and running important project reports.
WireBlock Diagram Page - Quickly provides a full system overview drawing with prewire schedules, wire labeling, BoMs and headend size, AC power, and ventilation requirements before the installation begins.
Build the one-page, full-system block diagram by simply naming the pre-made headends, rooms and areas and then dropping and connecting devices and block wires into the named spaces. Finally add headend devices and wire group symbols to automatically configure the room’s block wires.
EngineerHeadend and Room Schematic Pages - Provides the point-to-point wiring diagrams used to wire equipment racks and room electronics. They’re also essential for system programming, servicing, and upgrades.
Begin by naming the pre-made headend and room spaces on the schematic pages. After transforming the block diagram device and wire symbols, position them on the page and add and label interconnecting wires. Finally connect wires to devices.
BuildRack and Wall Elevation Drawing Pages - These scaled drawings show the correct placement of rack and wall mounted components. The rack reports show the rack bill of materials as well as the rack size, AC power, and ventilation requirements. Together with the schematic drawings techs can efficiently build and wire the racks.
Like the block and schematic drawings, the rack elevation pages get a head start because the previous page symbols can be automatically transformed into rack device symbols and dropped onto the rack elevation pages where they are easily positioned into the equipment rack symbols.The wall elevation pages are easily created with the provided wall, back box, panel, cover, enclosure, and device symbols. Support symbols include raceways, DIN rails, wall studs, blocking, notes, and dimension lines. Everything necessary to create accurate wall elevation drawings showing TVs, drop down screens, back boxes, lighting enclosures, touch panels, keypads, loudspeakers, etc. is provided.