The low voltage electrical installation calculation program.

TRACE-ELEC-CALC is useful in every aspect of an electric installation, from the early design up to the maintenance, through the production and inspection. TRACE-ELEC-CALC is also very much appreciated in technical education.
TRACE-ELEC-CALC is a software package that enables the calculation of low voltage electrical installations, following the specifications of the C15-500 guide as well as complying with the various French and international standards (NF C 15-100, RGIE, IEC364, HD 384, CEI 64, ...). TRACE-ELEC-CALC calculates conductors' cross-sections, short-circuit currents, voltage falls and the measurement of sources and protections. It can manage complex and multiple sources for installations of all size, it includes power balance calculation and a help for high voltage electrical networks calculations. The graphical interface of TRACE-ELEC-CALC was specifically and ergonomically designed to deal easily and quickly with any type of installation whatever its complexity.

TRACE-ELEC-CALC has a publishing module for the printing and the export of the installation calculation notes under different layouts, and an interface to AutoCAD enabling export of installation diagram to DWG drawing format.

TRACE-ELEC-CALC's main assets remain in its speed and user-friendliness, its power of calculation, its capacity to simulate and its educational character, enabling to deal in a new way with the variety and the complexity of standards and uses in this domain.

Allows you to work with different electrical manufacturers parts, these can be selected automatically by matching project elements against valid parts, or manually using specific filter parameters (selectivity, back-up, )

The normative context The publication, in May, 1997, of the UTE C 15-500 guide (report CENELEC R064-003) introduced the harmonization of rules with respect to the standards IEC. Based on this guide, through the installations calculations, TRACE-ELEC-CALC complies with the various standards and\or the national regulations (NF C 15-100 in France, RGIE in Belgium). TRACEELEC-CALC obtained the technical compliance UTE 15L-604 for France and technical conformity CEBEC for Belgium (License 57478101). In France, the standard imposes numerous constraints: since May, 1998, only softwares based on the guide UTE C 15-500 can be commercialized and since May, 1999, new electrical installations must be designed with a software compliant with the UTE C15 500 guide. Under the order of October 10th, 2000 the manager site has to yield to the control authority the single-line drawing of the installations along with the calculation notes. TRACE-ELEC-CALC is a software package that enables to calculate or to verify the measurement of an electric installation with respect to regulations imposed by the General Regulation on the Electrical Installations - R.G.I.E and the technical compliance CEBEC 57478101 A software package of calculation remains a tool to measure and/or to check but cannot lead the user to conclude that the practical implementation of the installation is or will be in accordance with the RGIE, without a in-depth exam on site by a body of approved control.