NISC Mapwise vs ArcFM Electric

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MichaelYoung1 · Answer

All the ArcGIS toolbox tools are available. Been using them for years. Love it.

SSMIC3038 · Answer

We use an ArcFM electric distribution model implemented in the ArcGIS environment running SQL server and have been since 2000 (ArcGIS 8.0).

I can't speak to the ArcFM tools or software but the model we have is very detailed and extremely valuable, it is very much an asset driven database model and the questions/answers that field crews all the way up to managing engineers can get out of it is impressive.

We have in house developers so we've done a lot of custom stuff in terms of tools, we have the geometric network enabled for phased based tracing to aid in planned/unplanned outages. For desktop usage I find ArcGIS very capable of doing a lot of deep analysis, there's things I wish it did better but all in all were able to crank out an impressive level of information, especially when compared with before the GIS implementation.

It takes the right kind of GIS person to run and maintain it as it can be overwhelming in detail and is far from a simple "point on a map" sort of GIS. Probably the only thing we fight with is level of detail, how much detail should we strive for and when should we be getting schematic or just link to other documents line engineering plans.

RobertBorchert · Answer

I am wondering.  Are all the ArcGIS toolbox tools available when using ArcFM or are you restricted to use of ArcFM tools?

I have been out of the box ESRI for 15 years and may be moving into an ArcFM world.  I have concerns about limiting my productivity until such a time as I get back up to speed.