1. Purpose
Redraws one circuit's wires in neat rows (top to bottom, left to right, 100mm row tolerance): the tool orders the loads, deletes the old wires, and rebuilds them. Use it when hand-drawn circuit wires look like a spiderweb on the plan.
2. Quick video (≤ 2 minutes)
[Video in production — follow the steps below for now.]
3. Steps
- Preselect one circuit (or an element on it); with nothing selected the command asks you to pick one circuit or one element of the target circuit. Stand on the plan that holds the circuit. [image 01: selecting the circuit to rewire]
- Click Wire raster in the VP_MEP tab, Electrical panel.
- The tool orders loads along the raster, deletes old wires, draws new ones, then reports how many wires were deleted and created. [image 02: circuit before and after rewiring]
- Every run writes a log file to the Desktop — on error, open the log at the path quoted in the message.
4. Real-world example
Circuit C-9 feeds 14 office lights, its hand-drawn wires crossing everywhere and unreadable for construction documents. Select C-9, run the command — 14 loads ordered by row, wires running cleanly row by row, "Deleted 14 old wires and created 14 wires." reported, drawings ready to issue.
5. Common errors
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| "Cannot resolve exactly one circuit from picked element." | The picked element sits on zero or several circuits — repick an element on exactly one circuit |
| "Circuit has fewer than two loads to reorder." | Fewer than 2 loads means nothing to order — double-check it is the right circuit |
| "... completed with skipped pairs. ... Failed element ids: ..." | A few load pairs could not be drawn (blocked positions) — note the reported ids and fix those pairs by hand |
| New wires nowhere to be seen | Wrong view (the command draws on the Active View) — open the plan holding the circuit, then rerun |
6. See also
- Copy circuit — copy the circuit first, as a way back before rewiring.
- Merge circuits — merge loads first, then rewire everything at once.
- Similar — quickly select same-zone lights before working a circuit.