Electrical device

Electrical device places the points of the electrical installation. The list beside the tools offers the devices of your project's template; in a project under the UK template, for example, a single or a double 13 A socket outlet, a socket outlet at worktop height, a weatherproof socket outlet, a cooker connection unit, a switched fused connection unit, an EV charge point, one-way, two-way and dimmer switches, a ceiling light point, a downlight, a wall light point, an external light point, a data outlet, a TV aerial outlet, a doorbell push, a room thermostat, an electric shower, mains smoke and heat alarms and a carbon monoxide alarm. Each device kind says where it stands: most on a wall, on the face you click, and a few in the room, on its ceiling.

You place the points; the studio does the wiring. Once a consumer unit stands in the project (see Consumer unit), the devices are grouped into circuits by your template's rules and each circuit's run is laid from the consumer unit, up the walls and through the ceiling, by itself, and sized. Nothing of that is stored: move a device and the circuits are laid again. They show with the Electrical overlay.

• Placing the socket outlets, switches and lights of a plan.
• Adding a dedicated point, such as a cooker connection unit or an EV charge point, which takes a circuit of its own.
• Checking the circuits the studio lays as you add devices.

One new device entry at the end of the project's list of devices, as one step that one undo takes back: its kind, and either its wall, its distance along it to the centimetre and its face, or its room and its point, with the phase the view draws in. The circuits, the runs, the cables and the circuit breakers are never written: they are worked out from the devices each time the project is built.