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Representing Equipment and Telecom Devices in CAD

When you create equipment items in the Asset Registration Console or create equipment and telecom devices with the Telecom Console, you will be adding these items to the database. If you want the items to appear in your telecom and equipment CAD plans, you will need to represent them in CAD and link them to the existing records.

Since the records already exist in the database, you can represent the items in floor plan drawings using the ARCHIBUS population command, which adds the corresponding block to the drawing and links the block to the record to form an asset symbol.

Population uses an item's standard (such as Equipment Standard or Patch Panel Standard) to determine the block to add to the drawing, Therefore, be sure that the standard fields are defined for the equipment items and telecom devices that you create using the Telecom Console or the Asset Registration Console.

Procedure

Follow this general procedure to represent your equipment and telecom devices in CAD.

1. In ARCHIBUS Smart Client, move to the Asset Management or Enterprise Asset Management domain, and the IT Asset Manager process. Choose one of the following tasks, which will prompt you to select a floor plan drawing. The commands will then launch your drawing tool and set to the appropriate layer for developing the item at hand.
   • Draw Equipment
   • Draw Jacks
   • Draw Faceplates
   • Draw Patch Panels
2. Alternatively, you can go directly to your CAD tool, move to the Asset Management or Enterprise Asset Management section of the Process Navigator, and set to the appropriate asset layer using one of these commands:
   • Set Equipment
   • Set Jacks
   • Set Faceplates
   • Set Patch Panels
3. Run the appropriate task for the selected layer:
   • Populate Equipment to Rooms
   • Populate Jacks to Rooms
   • Populate Faceplates to Rooms
   • Populate Patch Panels to Rooms

   You will be prompted to select the rooms you want to update.

   Based on the database information, the system adds the blocks to the selected rooms, convert them to asset symbols, and connect them to the existing records. Once the system generates the asset symbols, you will want to position your asset symbols within the room boundaries to represent the items' physical location in the actual rooms.

4. So that your updated drawings can be viewed in ARCHIBUS Web Central , publish your drawing as an ARCHIBUS Enterprise Graphic file by running the Publish Enterprise Graphics command.

Note: As another approach, you can develop you telecom and equipment inventory in CAD, which will create telecom and equipment records, In this case, you can use the forms of the Telecom Console and Asset Registration Console to edit the values or complete additional fields not available from the CAD interface. For information on starting from CAD, see the below topics.

See Also

Draw Equipment

Draw Faceplates

Draw Jacks

Draw Patch Panels

Creating Asset Symbols by Populating