The Export Window

The Branch Circuit Export window lets you pick a view and either preview it or export it.

• Floor Plan View — choose the floor (or ceiling) plan view you want to export from the dropdown. You can type to filter the list. Once chosen, it shows “View selected and ready.”
• Open in Revit — opens that view in Revit so you can check it before exporting.
• Export — extracts the branch circuits and writes an .abr file.

What happens when you Export

When you click Export, ABR walks you through a few quick steps:

1. Device categories — standard electrical, lighting and equipment are always scanned; here you can add any other categories that hold mis-modelled power/lighting devices.
2. Background categories — choose which categories are drawn into the exported file as context.
3. ABR extracts the model data (a progress window shows while it works — this can take a few minutes on large models).
4. A lighting review lets you check the lighting and panel analysis.
5. If any circuited device references a panel that isn’t in the export, ABR warns you before writing.
6. Finally it writes the .abr file.