Especially for waste and vent sizing, the conversion from fixture units to pipe sizing is standard for all cases for the UPC and IPC. Generating sizing charts for cold and hot water, automatically through a series of settings possibly, would be probably more difficult to implement but equally helpful to make sizing plumbing easier.

On low voltage systems drawings (Fire Alarm, Security, CCTV) we treat homeruns differently than power and lighting homeruns. We do not use the circuit label, wire callout, or tick marks, but rather we use a keynote. If there was a “keynote homerun”, it would save us the time spent removing the wire call-out every time we create low voltage homerun.

Calculate the load based upon the length and the remote transformers.

It is too easy for anyone to select "Copy to Master" and make a mess of the master database.

Automation is a must! It's all about efficiency to allow more time to focus on aesthetics and functionality, the things that really matter to clients.

I would not see this as a reverse workflow. Many times I will place panels in the model prior to drafting a one-line.

We need a way to link two family instances together so that when you update one of the instances it updates the other.

Be able to draw loops between devices for low-voltage lines, for connecting items like sensors and power packs.

Have a way to make a unique cable ID for every feeder, branch circuit and low voltage circuit. For example P-MCC1-001 for the power cable fed from MCC1 or PT-FLOWGAS-003 for a pressure transmitter.

I'm working on a big industrial plant where I need a have a cable number for every cable in the plant.

I would like to have the ID on the one line, plan view drawing and export to Excel.

Be able to right click or slow-double-click on a room name in the Zone Tree or Floor Tree to be able to change it

High-leg delta panels are always unbalanced. The balanced 3-phase amps we display is not a good number to use when sizing these panels. The connected amps by phase does not account for largest motor loads or continuous loads.

Add the ability to determine the amps by phase using calculated loads. The largest motor, lighting, and continuous loads would all be calculated at 125%. All other loads would be calculated at 100%.

Be able to create plumbing and piping fixtures, similar to light fixture or receptacles in DM Electrical or diffusers in DM HVAC.

Detect room boundaries from the architect's XREF automatically and create rooms based upon it.

It would be nice to at least have the command to match diffuser callout location.

MV conductor insulation is much larger so you cannot get as many conductors inside a conduit. if you're using design master to calculate your feeder conduits it will be incorrect over 600v. I don't believe this is readily apparent now.

We can assign layers based on one-line (panel) or circuit or devices however not all parts of circuit are on the same layer. I may run some in the slab and some in the walls. Having the ability toi use the manual loop tool to change the layer system would be helpful. Also having the ability to assign a device to multiple layers would be helpful as well.

Or have some of the loops new and some existing.

Comply with NEC Article 700 requirements for selective coordination of overcurrent protective devices in the supply side of emergency system.