Cable Routing

Drawing Cable Routes

Editing Routes

• Click on an existing route to select it
• Drag waypoints to adjust the route path
• Add new waypoints by clicking on the route line
• Delete a waypoint by selecting it and pressing Delete
• Delete an entire route by selecting it and pressing Delete

Power and fibre at the pole

A camera column far from the rack is usually fed over fibre, converted to copper and powered locally. The designer has a device for each part of that chain.

• Insert a pole enclosure, open its DIN rail and put a media converter, a DC supply or a PoE injector inside. Contents are counted in 17.5 mm modules.
• Draw the fibre from the rack to the enclosure and short copper runs from the enclosure to the cameras. The cable type is picked for you and can be changed.
• Draw a power cable from the DC supply to each camera that is not on PoE. The validator checks the current per output and the voltage drop at the supply voltage.
• Put converters with datasheet optics at both ends of a fibre and the optical budget is judged on their figures; without them the drawing says the budget is assumed.
• The DXF and PDF carry two extra tables: DC power distribution and fibre links, with the terminal on every cable end.

Cable Length Summary

CCTVplanner automatically calculates the total cable length for all routes in your project. This information is displayed in the project summary and included in PDF exports. The cable length calculation uses the scale you set on the floor plan, so make sure your scale is accurate for correct measurements.