Read and export the wiring

The Wiring view is the connection drawing for the whole project: audio, network, cameras, video and control on one sheet. It is built from the design, every cable gets an ID, and the same IDs print on the schedules, the room sheets and the report, so the installer can label both ends before a cable goes into the wall.

Three views of the same wiring#

Read the drawing and the schedule together#

Built from the project#

Build from project draws every device in the design: amplifiers, the audio matrix and DSP, switches, controllers, AV-over-IP encoders and decoders, matrices, every placed speaker, and the access points and cameras, each wired to the network switch over PoE. It also includes anything you placed by hand in the rack. On the first build it wires the obvious signal chain for you: sources to the matrix, the matrix to the amplifiers, each amplifier to the speakers in its zones, and 70 V or 100 V lines daisy-chained.

Your own blocks, names, positions and wires are kept when you build again, and Update from project redraws the drawing after you change the design.

Real connectors, per model#

Each device is drawn with its real rear-panel connectors, taken from the manufacturer’s data. An eight-channel amplifier shows its eight inputs and eight speaker outputs; a control processor shows its IR, RS-232 and relay ports; a video encoder its HDMI, network, audio, USB and control ports.

Cable types and colours#

Cables are identified from their connectors and colour-coded, in the legend and the schedule: speaker cable, network, HDMI, and audio as RCA, optical, coaxial or balanced, with IR as its own cable. Cable colours shows the legend.

Wire and route by hand#

• Wire. Drag from an output port to a matching input. The tool blocks output to output, input to input and mismatched signals.
• Route. Click a wire to select it, then drag it to add a bend point, and drag any point to route the wire around the blocks. Double-click a point to remove it, or the wire to reset it.
• Remove. A selected wire’s ✕, or Delete.
• Add devices that are not in the design: a source, a display, a microphone, a PDU, or from + Network a switch, an IP router, an IP camera, an access point or a recorder. Rename them, such as “Lounge TV”, with ✎ or a double-click.
• Edit together. Shift-click devices, or hold Shift and drag a box around them, or press Ctrl+A for all. Drag one to move the group, align them from Align, or resize them from the corner handle; every cable stays plugged in. Undo and redo step through every change.

The system diagram#

The system diagram is the client-facing version. Devices are laid out from left to right, from the rack’s sources through processing and the network to the amplifiers, then into the rooms. Each room is its own box, with that room’s receivers, screens, speakers, panels and cameras in a grid, shown with their real product photos and joined by smooth cables coloured by signal. Drag a room’s box to move the whole room, or its corner to resize it. You can set your own photo on any device.

Room sheets#

Room sheets group the installation by location, one section per room plus one for the shared equipment in the rack. Each device card shows its connections and the cable IDs. Each room can be exported on its own as a PDF or an image, for a crew that only needs the sheet for the room they are working in. A connection that cannot be resolved is flagged here for review, not silently left off.

Export#

The wiring DXF is a different export from the floor plan DXF: send each to the person who needs it. See Export CAD drawings.