Revit for Electrical Design Professional Certification Prep

Outline

Pre-test

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand. Keep track of your incorrect answers to know which skills you should study. You'll have a chance to take this same practice test again at the end of the course to see how you've improved.

All questions must be answered to submit your assessment.

Pre-assessment

62 questions

1. An electrical designer is creating a receptacle family. The designer wants the receptacle symbol to appear in floor plan views when the Detail Level is Coarse and Medium. The designer also wants the symbol to change in size when the View Scale is changed. What should the designer use to create the symbol in the family?

Symbolic lines
Model lines
Generic annotations
Detail items

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2. An electrical designer wants to add a lighting fixture to a circuit. When the designer selects the lighting fixture, the Create Systems panel does not appear on the contextual ribbon. What should the designer do?

Open the family and set the Part Type to Lighting Fixture.
Open the family and change the category to Lighting Fixtures.
Open the lighting fixture family and add an electrical connector.
Open the family and enable Light Source.

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3. An electrical designer is creating an underground conduit plan. Which view setting should the designer adjust to show conduit beneath the associated level of the view?

View Range
Color Scheme
Detail Level
Visibility/Graphic Overrides

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4. An electrical designer is creating a receptacle family. The designer places an electrical connector and sets the System Type to Power – Unbalanced. The designer wants to control the Voltage of the electrical connector in the project. How can this be accomplished?

Set the Power Factor State for the connector to Lagging.
Associate the Voltage parameter on the connector with a family parameter.
In the Properties palette, select Shared.
The Voltage of the connector cannot be modified in a project, only in the family.

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5. An electrical designer is creating an electrical equipment family. The designer creates an extrusion and wants the length and width to adjust for various family types. How can this be accomplished?

Associate family parameters to the extrusion’s Length and Width parameters.
Dimension the length and width of the extrusion.
Add family parameters for Length and Width.
Constrain the extrusion to reference planes that are driven by parameters.

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6. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer is creating panel schedules using the Branch Panel template. The panel name is not reporting properly in the panel schedules. What is the problem?

Panel Name is input as text and not a parameter.
The Panel Name parameter is from the Electrical Equipment category.
A Data Panel template type should be used instead of Branch Panel.
Freeze Rows and Columns is not enabled.

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7. An electrical designer has a CAD file that they want to reference in a model. The designer wants to use it to trace conduit runs using the Conduit tool. The CAD file is also being updated. What should be done in this scenario to use the CAD file?

Model in AutoCAD and use Dynamo to extract conduit.
Use the Link CAD tool to link it.
Import the CAD file using Import CAD.
Create a PDF and use Import PDF.

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8. An electrical designer is working on a building model with multiple areas. The designer wants to create Power and Lighting views with the exact same crop regions. Which feature should the designer use?

View Range
View Templates
Selection Box
Scope Box

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9. When lighting fixtures are placed in a space, which space parameter is calculated based on the Lumens from each fixture?

Room Cavity Ratio
Actual Illumination
Calculated Illumination
Average Estimated Illumination

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10. An electrical designer is adding components to a circuit and receives a warning stating that the total connected load is exceeding 80% of the defined rating. Which parameter can be adjusted to resolve this warning?

Rating parameter in the Electrical Settings.
Rating parameter for the circuit.
Rating parameter for the panel.
Rating parameter for the electrical fixture.

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11. An electrical designer is creating floor plan views for a 2-story building. The lobby ceiling on the first floor is 2 feet above the other spaces on the level. The designer wants to show the lighting above the lobby on the first floor plan view without showing anything on the second level. How can this be accomplished?

Create a dependent view for the lobby and adjust the View Range.
Create a plan region around the lobby and adjust the View Range.
Create a section box around the lobby and adjust the View Range.
Create a scope box around the lobby and adjust the View Range.

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12. What type of element populates a note block?

Keynote Tag
Generic Tag
Generic Annotation
Keynote Annotation

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13. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer wants the name of the panel to display in a 3D view. How should this be done?

Associate Model Text with the Panel Name parameter.
Associate Model Text with the Description parameter.
Add a generic tag to the family with a Shared parameter.
Add a generic model to the family with a Custom Text parameter.

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14. An electrical designer needs to set the Connection Type for a circuit to Feed Through Lugs. What does the designer need to do to enable this functionality?

Change the System Type of the electrical connector on the panel to Feed Through Lugs.
Select the panel and enable Feed Through Lugs in the Properties palette.
Open the Electrical Settings dialog and enable Feed Through Lugs in the Wiring settings.
Make sure the Distrubtion System for the panel is set to Feed Through Lugs.

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15. An electrical designer wants to add a parameter to a system family category. What type of parameter should the designer create?

Global
Project
Family
Shared

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16. Refer to exhibit.
Exhibit 1:

Exhibit 2:

An electrical designer places an electrical fixture on a wall. The fixture does not appear to be visible, but the designer finds that it may be selected as shown in Exhibit 1. As a troubleshooting step, the designer places the same electrical fixture on the floor as shown in Exhibit 2.

Why is the fixture hosted to the wall not visible?

The fixture is outside of the view range.
The fixture is not connected to a power system circuit.
The symbol within the family was created using symbolic lines.
Maintain Annotation Orientation is disabled within the family.

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17. An electrical designer places hosted lighting fixtures in the ceiling of a linked architectural model. What is the hosting type of the lighting fixtures?

Face-based
Ceiling-hosted
Non-hosted
Floor-hosted

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18. An electrical designer has placed lighting fixtures and electrical fixtures in a room and wants to circuit them all together. The designer selects all the fixtures to create a circuit, but the Power button is not available in the ribbon. If the designer selects any one lighting fixture or electrical fixture, the Power button is available.

Why is the designer not able to circuit the fixtures?

Electrical connectors are not present in the fixture families.
The fixtures are already connected to a circuit.
Lighting fixtures and electrical fixtures cannot be circuited together.
The fixture voltages are not compatible with one another.

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19. An electrical designer wants to associate lighting fixtures to a lighting device to indicate the device that controls the lights. What should the designer create?

Switch System
Assembly
Circuit
Group

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20. An electrical designer is creating a lighting fixture schedule and wants to include information from the spaces in which the lighting fixtures are placed. How can this be accomplished?

Select Include elements in links and then select Spaces.
Create a combined parameter using the Space category.
Choose Space in Select available fields from.
Filter by Space and then Sort by Space Number.

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21. Which of the following view types shows actual model element geometry?

Legend
Section
Schedule
Drafting

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22. An MEP team is working with an architect that is using design options. The architect states that the MEP team should show Option 2 in the MEP model. What should the designer do?

In the Type Properties dialog, edit the Design Option Mapping.
Specify the Design Option in the RVT Link Display Settings dialog.
Create design options and then set Option 2 as the primary option.
Select By host view on the Revit Links tab of the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog.

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23. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer wants to make an electrical equipment tag that will have lines categorized under the Electrical Equipment Tags category within the Visibility Graphics dialog. How is this accomplished?

Right-click the tag in the model and select Override Graphics in View > By Element.
In the family, go to the Object Styles dialog and make a new subcategory under Electrical Equipment Tags.
Go to the Visibility Graphics dialog and select Object Styles under Electrical Equipment Tags.
In the project, go to the Object Styles dialog and make a new subcategory under Electrical Equipment Tags.

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24. An electrical designer hosts a lighting fixture to a named reference plane, but it is on the wrong side of the plane. After selecting the lighting fixture, how should the designer move it to the correct side of the plane?

Click Pick New Work Plane.
Click Rotate.
Press the spacebar.
Click Flip Work Plane.

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25. Which of the following elements is a loadable family?

Cable Tray
Wire
Conduit
Electrical Equipment

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26. When two runs of conduit cross at the same elevation, which option controls whether or not a junction is created?

Routing Preferences
Automatically Connect
Inherit Elevation
Inherit Size

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27. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer is trying to place 2” (50 mm) conduit in a building model. With the Conduit tool active, 2” (50 mm) is not an option in the Diameter drop-down on the Options bar. What should the designer do?

Open the Type Properties dialog, click Edit next to Sizes, and add a size for 2” (50 mm).
In the Electrical Settings, add a size for 2” (50 mm) and make sure Used In Size Lists is enabled.
Scroll down in the Properties palette to Diameter(Trade Size), click Edit, and enable 2” (50 mm).
Create a new type and enable 2” (50 mm) in the Routing Preferences.

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28. Refer to exhibits.
Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2:

What Status and Reference Type describes how the Revit Architectural and Structural files are linked into the Electrical file?Snowden Towers Sample Structural.rvt Status: Not Loaded, Reference Type: AttachmentSnowden Towers Sample Structural.rvt Status: Loaded, Reference Type: OverlaySnowden Towers Sample Structural.rvt Status: Loaded, Reference Type: AttachmentSnowden Towers Sample Structural.rvt Status: Loaded, Reference Type: Overlay

Snowden Towers Sample Architectural.rvt Status: Loaded, Reference Type: Overlay
Snowden Towers Sample Architectural.rvt Status: Not Loaded, Reference Type: Overlay
Snowden Towers Sample Architectural.rvt Status: Loaded, Reference Type: Overlay
Snowden Towers Sample Architectural.rvt Status: Not Loaded, Reference Type: Attachment

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29. What controls the parameter(s) that a tag reports?

Loaded Tags And Symbols dialog
Label in the tag family
Tag Type Properties
Shared parameters in the element families

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30. Which tool should be used to tag every space in a view at once?

Multi-Tag
Tag All Not Tagged
Space Tag
Tag by Category

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31. A designer wants to work within a model without the possibility of making changes to the central model. Which option should the designer use when opening the model?

Open Read Only
Create New Local
Relinquish All Mine
Detach from Central

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32. An electrical designer wants a view to create a detail that is unassociated with the model and model elements. What type of view should the designer create?

Section
Drafting
Callout
Plan Region

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33. Which parameter will control the elevation of cable trays?

Vertical Justification
Inherit Elevation
Bottom Elevation
Offset from Host

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34. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer wants to link a Revit file to the model. However, the Link Revit tool is dimmed.What should the designer do first in order to link a Revit file?

Synchronize the model with central.
Open a plan view or an elevation view.
Use the Unlock View command on the 3D view.
Disable worksharing and worksets.

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35. An electrical designer creates a new conduit type in a project that contains several conduit types that do not exist in their project template. The designer wants to transfer just the new conduit type they created to their template. What should the designer do?

Open the conduit in the Family Editor and then load it into the template.
Specify type mapping with the Transfer Project Standards tool.
Use Transfer Project Standards and select Conduit Types.
Copy a conduit of that type to the clipboard and paste it into the template.

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36. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer is reviewing demand factors. What will the demand factor be when there are 2 motors and when the demand factor is configured as shown?

90
65
125%
100

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37. An electrical designer wants to associate the Elevation from Level parameter for several receptacles in a project to a single parameter. What type of parameter should the designer create?

Family
Project
Shared
Global

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38. An electrical designer enables Section Box for a 3D view, but the section box is not visible in the view. Which setting should the designer check?

View Range
Visibility/Graphic Overrides
Selection Box
Temporary View Properties

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39. An electrical designer wants to use Copy/Monitor to copy lighting fixtures from an architectural model. What should the designer do to copy all lighting fixtures at once without selecting each individually?

In the Coordination Settings dialog, set Lighting Fixtures to Allow batch copy.
Select Multiple on the Options bar when using the Copy/Monitor tool.
Copy the architectural lighting fixtures to the clipboard and paste in the MEP model.
Open the Copy/Monitor Options dialog and specify the type mapping for Lighting Fixtures.

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40. Refer to exhibit.

Why is Synchronize with Central disabled?

Worksharing is not enabled.
The local file is open.
All worksets are closed.
The central model is open.

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41. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer runs an interference check between conduits in the electrical model and floors in the architectural model.

The exhibit shows the interference report.

How many model elements are involved in this interference?

One conduit and two floors
Two conduits and two floors
One conduit and one floor
Two conduits and one floor

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42. An electrical designer opens a receptacle family and modifies the Default Elevation. When the designer loads the family back into the project, the Default Elevation parameter does not update. Why?

The designer selected Overwrite the existing version.
The Default Elevation parameter is locked in the Family Types dialog.
The designer selected Overwrite the existing version and its parameter values.
A formulas is controlling the Default Elevation parameter.

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43. An electrical designer creates an electrical fixture family. The designer adds a power connector, sets the connector’s Number of Poles to 3, and assigns it a load of 3000 VA.

In the project, the designer places the family and circuits it to a three-phase panel. In the panel’s schedule, the circuit’s load on Phase A is 3000 VA, on Phase B is 0 VA, and on Phase C is 0 VThe designer expects the load to be divided evenly among the three phases.

Why isn’t the fixture’s load dividing evenly between three phases?

The family's power connector is set to unbalanced.
The fixture's voltage is equal to the panel's L-G voltage.
The fixture's connected circuit is set to single-phase.
The family's power connector is set to single-phase.

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44. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer wants to circuit the four receptacles together. The designer draws wires to connect them.

Why doesn't the home run display an arrow?

Home Run Arrows are turned off in Electrical settings.
The circuit is not connected to a panel.
Tick Marks are off in Wire properties.
The receptacles are not connected to a circuit.

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45. An electrical designer is reviewing systems in the System Browser. The designer wants to add columns to see the Number of Poles and Voltage Drop. How can this be accomplished?

System Browser > Column Settings
Electrical Settings > System Browser options
Project Units > Browser Settings
Options dialog > System Browser options

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46. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer is designing the lighting layout for classrooms in a school. The designer wants to analyze the lighting at the student’s desk level, which is 2’ 8” (813 mm). Which parameter should be adjusted in the space?

Limit Offset
Lighting Calculation Luminaire Plane
Lighting Calculation Workplane
Base Offset

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47. Refer to exhibit.

A portion of the Family Types dialog is shown. The Parameter, Values, and Formula Columns are shown. Three parameters are shown: Fixture Length (default) with a value of 1' 0"; Watts per Length, with a value of 5.000000; and Total Watts (default) with a value of 5.00W.

An electrical designer wants to create a family for a lighting fixture which can vary in length. The lighting fixture manufacturer specifies load in watts per length of fixture. The designer wants to vary the length of the fixture in the project and have total load calculated automatically. The designer creates the parameters in the exhibit.

What are the correct formula components to achieve the desired calculation? The asterisk (*) is the multiplication symbol in Revit.

Fixture Length * Watts Per Length
Fixture Length * 5.000000
1' 0" * 5.00 W
1' 0" * Total Watts (default)

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48. An electrical designer wants to control several view settings with a view template. After assigning a view template to a view, the View Scale can still be adjusted in the View Control bar. Why is this happening?

Include is not selected for the View Scale parameter in the view template.
Override is selected for the View Scale in the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog.
A plan region is being used to control the View Scale.
Override is selected next to View Scale in the Properties palette.

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49. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer wants to merge Revision 3 with Revision 2 but Merge Up is unavailable. Why?

Revision 2 is set to only Show Tag.
Revision 3 is showing Cloud and Tag.
The Numbering method is different.
Issued is selected for Revision 2.

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50. An electrical designer has several tags in a project and some use a different font. The font for all tags should be the same. What should the designer do?

Create a global parameter and associate it to the tag Font in the Type Properties.
Open each tag family and specify the Font in the Object Styles dialog.
Open each tag family and specify the Font in the label Type Properties.
Create a family parameter for the Font and associate it to the label Font parameter.

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51. An electrical designer selects a receptacle to create a power circuit. In the contextual ribbon, in the Create Systems panel, Data appears but Power does not. What is the problem?

The electrical connector is assigned to the wrong System Type.
The Distribution System needs to be adjusted to Power.
The Load Classification needs to be adjusted to Receptacle.
The receptacle was created as a Data Device instead of an Electrical Fixture.

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52. An electrical designer is exporting views to CAD files. The designer wants the graphic overrides from their filters to be layers in the CAD file. How can this be accomplished?

Change the Export layer options in the Modify DWG/DXF Setup dialog.
Select Specified in view on the Colors tab of the Modify DWG/DXF Setup dialog.
On the General tab of the Modify DWG/DXF Setup dialog, select Match filters.
In the Modify DWG/DXF Setup dialog, create new layers for each filter.

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53. Refer to exhibit.

The exhibit shows a demolition plan. The view is set to New Construction and Show Previous + Demo. An electrical designer exports this view to an AutoCAD file. All of the walls in the exported file are on the same layer. The electrical designer expects for New, Demo, and Existing walls to be on separate layers in the exported file.

How should the designer export the view to the desired AutoCAD layers?

Edit DWG/DXF export settings to include phase status layer modifiers.
Set Export to IFC As to include phase status.
Configure Phasing Graphic Overrides to override demolished.
Configure Show Previous + Demo phase filter to override demolished.

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54. An electrical designer opens a lighting fixture family to adjust the light source. The light source is not visible in the family even though the Visibility is not turned off in the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog. What should the designer do?

Load a light source family into the fixture family.
Use the Light Source tool to place a light source.
Click Reveal Hidden Elements to see if its been hidden.
Enable Light Source in the Properties palette.

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55. Refer to exhibit.

How does an electrical designer create a placeholder sheet?

Add a Legend, then a Legend Component. Label the component with the name of the placeholder sheet.
Right click Sheets in the Project Browser and select New Sheet.
Create a drafting view and add a border with the name of the placeholder sheet.
Create a sheet list view, then add a data row with the name of the placeholder sheet.

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56. What should an electrical designer do to display a panel as temporary in the current view?

Set the panel's Phase Demolished to New Construction and set the view's phase to Existing.
Set the panel's Phase Created to New Construction and set the view's phase to New Construction.
Set the panel's Phase Created and Phase Demolished to the same phase as the view.
Set the panel's Phase Created to New Construction and set the Phase Filter to New Construction.

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57. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer places four receptacles and two lighting fixtures in a room on a plan. The load classification for the receptacles is set to Receptacle and the load classification for the lighting fixtures is set to Lighting. The designer wants to analyze electrical loads in the room. The designer selects the space and sees Actual Receptacle Load but does not see Actual Lighting Load.

Why is Actual Lighting Load not listed in the Space properties?

The lighting fixtures are placed above the computation height.
Space load calculations are disabled in Electrical settings.
The lighting fixtures are not placed in the space.
Space load calculations are disabled for lighting fixtures.

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58. An electrical designer is creating parameters and is unsure of the Discipline and Type of Parameter to use. The designer wants to know which units are associated with the available types. Where can the designer see this information?

Project Parameters
Energy Settings
Project Units
Electrical Settings

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59. An electrical designer is creating a receptacle family. The designer wants the receptacle symbol to appear when the Detail Level is Coarse and Medium, and the receptacle geometry to appear when the Detail Level is Fine. How can this be accomplished?

Adjust the View Specific Display for the geometry.
Create subcategories for each detail level and then set the Subcategory for the geometry.
Adjust the Detail Levels in the Family Element Visibility Settings for the geometry.
Create Yes/No family parameters and associate the Visible parameter of the geometry.

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60. An electrical designer needs to adjust the horizontal alignment of a field in a schedule. Which tab of the Schedule Properties dialog can this be controlled?

Sorting/Grouping
Appearance
Fields
Formatting

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61. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer places an electrical fixture and circuits it to a panel. The designer assigns a load to the fixture in its properties but finds that the load does not appear on the circuit.

What should the designer do to ensure the fixture's load appears on its power circuit?

Change the fixture's Phase Created value to New Construction.
Change the Receptacle Load Classification to a 100% demand factor.
Set the fixture's voltage to match the circuit voltage.
Associate the family's connector load to the family parameter.

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62. Refer to exhibit.

An electrical designer is creating a switchboard family.The designer wants to include a W symbol on the corner of the switchboard if it is wider than 8 feet (2439 mm).

The designer created a symbol and associated its Visible property to the W Symbol Visible parameter.

What should the designer include in the formula field of the W Symbol Visible parameter?

=if(Width>8, Yes, No)
=if(Width>8, True, False)
=Width<8
=Width>8

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