NEWCable supports along tray routes — automatically

AVEVA E3D automation,tested, not guessed.

PML Console turns an export of your cable trays into cable supports, checks and ready PML — in under a second. Every command it writes has a status from real runs in E3D.

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free demo · runs in the browser · nothing to install

PML Console: cable support route in 3D
01This is PML Console — in the browser, next to E3D.
02It reads the tray routes you exported…
03…and places every cable support by the rules.
04Struts welded to the runs, brackets ready to build in E3D.
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cable trays in one export

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cable supports placed

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to calculate all four routes

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test runs in E3D so far

Cable supports

Drag the line. Watch every support appear.

Same trays, same camera. On the left — the export from E3D. On the right — what PML Console placed: struts, brackets and a support at every bend.

Cable trays exported from E3D, no supports The same trays with cable supports placed by PML Console BEFORE · EXPORTAFTER · 240 SUPPORTS
Anonymised test data · 4 routes · 42 trays← drag or use arrow keys →
How it works

From the model to the model. Four steps, no plug-ins.

Nothing to install and no admin rights: a read-only macro exports the trays, the browser does the work, and you paste the result back into E3D.

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Export

One read-only macro writes your trays to a text file. The database is not changed.

knk-cwb.txt · 42 trays
02

Place

PML Console reads the routes and places every cable support by the written rules — spans, bends, slopes, branches.

240 supports · 0.4 s
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Review

3D and 2D views with a ruler, an unfolded view of each route, and a list of what needs attention. Drag a support — the checks rerun.

0 violations
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Build in E3D

Copy the generated PML and paste it into E3D. Each support is an EQUI with struts and brackets, marked so it can be found and rebuilt later.

PURPOSE PMLC · rebuild by route
Step 1 in PML Console: choose what to export
-- step 1 macro, excerpt · Paste as Macro · only reads
alpha log /D:\exchange\knk-cwb.txt OVERWRITE
VAR !knkB COLLECT ALL CWBRAN FOR /PMLC
do !b values !knkB
  $!b
  Q REF
  Q VWIDTH
  Q POS WRT WORLD
  …
3D review of one routeAttention panel: rules met, 0 violations
PML for E3D · route T5 · excerpt

    

  







  
One page, several tools

  
Built for the cable discipline. Trays, supports, equipment, data.

  

    

      
Cable support route in development

        
Supports placed along the route, not by hand

        
Every tray, every bend, every branch. Struts to the wall or a frame, brackets per tier, a bill of materials with steel weight.

      
    

    

      
Written rules

      
Every support has a reason

      
    
        
  • Span ≤ 3 m, on slopes ≤ 1 m
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  • A support within 100 mm of every bend joint
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  • T-branches, slopes and tiers handled
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  • Fewest supports out of every valid layout
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Cable routes tested

        
CWAY and CWBRAN from a description

        
Routes by zone and discipline, trays on shelves side by side, a cross-section diagram, path points — names grow from the zone.

      
Close-up of tray tiers in 3D

    

    

      
Model tree

      
Sort elements in the tree

      
Paste the list, get a REORDER sequence checked on a model of the list first.

      
/PMLC
├ /PMLC-CWAY-T1
├ /PMLC-CWAY-T2 ↑
└ /PMLC-CWAY-T3

    

    

      
Equipment tested
Junction boxes
Body, lid and cable entries on any face — a 3D preview before E3D.

      Junction box 3D preview
    

    

      
Equipment tested
Cabinets
Floor or wall, doors on both sides, hinges, handles, plinth or legs.

      Cabinet 3D preview
    

    

      
Tagging tested
Excel in, attributes out
Every change shown before it is written, by reference.

      

        
beforeafter

        
CWB-0012→EL-T1-012

        
CWB-0013→EL-T1-013

        
unset→Tray 600×100

      

    

  








  
Junction box

  
Change a number. The diagram and the 3D follow.

  
Entries in a row, rows across the depth, the offset of the whole group on the face — the face layout and the 3D model update together, before anything goes to E3D. Recorded in PML Console as it is.

  

    

    

    
in a row 1 → 6rows 1 → 3offset W–E to the edgeoffset S–N to the edge

  







  

    
Learning, built in

    
The tool shows itself. No video course needed.

    
Press «How it works» and the page plays a walkthrough on itself: it highlights each field, types the values, turns the box, explains what happens. It is not a screen recording — it runs on the live page, so it always matches the current version.

    
    
      
  • 12 steps · about a minute in the tool
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  • Pause, back, next · arrow keys and Space
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  • Your form is restored when it ends
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pml-console.html — Junction box · How it works

    
  

  

    
Jump to a step

    
    
      
  1. The formfill in on the left — 3D and code on the right
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  2. Zone → name/PMLC → /PMLC-KR-001
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  3. Item numbera free one is offered
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  4. Lid facingthe box turns to the east
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  5. Width200 → 260, 3D follows
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  6. Heightdrag a field like in Blender
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  7. Entry diameter25 → 32 mm
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  8. Entries in a row3 → 4, or a clear refusal
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  9. 3D = the codethe same model goes to E3D
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Tested, not guessed

  
Nothing is assumed about E3D. Every command is proved in a run.

  
PML has no public reference for cable work. So each command the tool writes is tried on a real E3D first, and its status — and the run that proved it — is shown next to the code.

  

    
A register of commands
Works, fails or not verified — with the date of the run.

    
Undo built in
Writing code starts with a database mark — one UNDODB rolls everything back.

    
Offline, one file
A single HTML page. No install, no admin rights, nothing leaves your PC.

    
Test data only
Everything shown here is anonymised training data — no customer projects.

  







  

    
In 33 seconds

    
Export. Place. Build.

    
The whole cable support workflow in one short video — real frames from PML Console on test data.

    Watch with sound on YouTube
      
  

  







  
  
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