Latest Contributions by JohnAlsup

The electric foundation provides the ability to align with CIM.  SIMILIX and Safe Software both provide CIM extractors that will reformat the network export data to CIM. ... View more

Hi Eivind, in our latest release of the Electric Model, we have features in StructureLine called Electric <Class> Voltage Pathway, where class is either High, Medium or Low. These features have rules that allow the appropriate Electricline features to be contained within them.   ... View more

I think the limitation will be usability once you get a very large number of subnetwork in a single tier.  I have seen more than 50,000 subnetworks in a tier, during testing, but the usability of some dialogs will degrade dramatically.   ... View more

If you are attempting to model an unbalanced three phase system and use propagation to manage phase, you will have to use associations to some degree.  However, we recently released our updated Electric Foundation model which includes representing the units as non-spatial, reducing the complexity of migration.  I encourage you to look at how this is modeled in the Electric Foundation found on the Esri Solutions site. ... View more

First, you should report this issue to Esri support.   They will need full details and more than likely a copy of your database.   If you have two tiers in your network, Transmission and Distribution, and you enable the topology and then run update subnetwork in the distribution tier first, then try to run update in the Transmission tier on a subnetwork, you could encounter this error.  You could also encounter in the same tier if the first subnetwork processed has a very small extent.  You should try starting with running update subnetwork with the subnetwork that probably has the largest extent.   But again, please submit an issue to Esri support.   ... View more

Do you have a Map open or have opened a map in this project session?  If so, that could be creating locks on the layers/feature classes, causing the tool to fail. ... View more

Sorry for the late reply.  Yes, those switches being opened helps with my understanding and preventing loops.  Are these radial circuits or looped circuits?   ... View more

It's hard to tell from the diagram, as I don't know all your symbology.  But, It looks like you have some cases that might create loops, as I don't see any switches between what I think are circuit breakers, where the downstream side of the circuit breakers appear to be tied together with no switch between them.   ... View more

I guess the first question I would ask is do these Generation objects need to be returned by a trace? If not, then if you want to have them just for visualization, then I would add them to classes not in the Utility Network. If you do want them returned in a trace, then yes, they need to be in the Utility Network.  But, if you look at our Utility Network model found in the Esri Electric Foundation Solution, you will notice that there is an attribute for ownership.  This can be an network attribute allowing you to not include equipment you do not own in a subnetwork definition, but still included it in a trace.   As for using CIM to bring in updates to the Generation equipment, you can use FME/Data Interop to accomplish that, but I would make sure to not replace all features in the CIM, just update them.  This will reduce the impact on the network index. ... View more

A network topology rule won't prevent you from moving the feature, it will just create a topology error after validation.   If you are trying to move it and it won't move, it could be an attribute rule that is causing the issue or more likely resolution snapping issue.  I would suggest contacting esri support to pursue further. ... View more

Are you using Non-Spatial Objects?  If so, these may be invalid features for some reason that are not connected to or contained in a spatial feature. ... View more

can you provide a bit more information?  what is the status of the dirty area, what is the error code, etc. ... View more

There is no UML diagram or plans for a UML diagram for any of the Industry models in the Utility Network.   ... View more