The Benefits of 3D Modeling in Substation Design & Construction
If you could instantly reduce your design and engineering time – by as much as 61% – wouldn’t you? That’s the finding in one study that exhaustively compared hours required in commercial projects when you using 3D modeling versus 2D (i.e., AutoCAD) drawings. And the benefits of 3D modeling, including for electrical substation design and construction, just get better from there. Here’s how.

Improved accuracy means fewer fixes and change orders.
3D modeling starts with the same information used in AutoCAD drawings to represent the flat surfaces of the objects being engineered; it then adds volumetric and connective data to the same basic, joining the faces, edges and points of flat surfaces together to form a complete representation of a three-dimensional object. That object makes it possible to model real characteristics. Further, the software platforms used for 3D modeling automate many of the accuracy checks and prevent documentation errors from propagating. “3D software allows us to take a substation from conceptual phase to design phase with little to no error,” says Frank Camus, Vice President of Engineering & Design for DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations. This improves efficiency.

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