Overview

SideRiser reviews electrical one-line (single-line) and riser diagrams. Upload a drawing set as PDFs and you get back a component inventory of every piece of equipment and feeder on the diagrams, and a list of findings checked against your firm's design standards and the NEC.

It's built for engineers who check drawings before they're issued: a first pass before a PE review, a recheck after revisions, or a second pair of eyes on a set from a consultant.

How a review works

  1. Upload the drawing set. One combined PDF or a file per sheet. Floor plans and other disciplines can stay in; the reviewer finds the one-line and riser diagrams itself.
  2. Check the pages (optional). Each page is listed with a best guess at what it is. Skip pages the review doesn't need: you're charged per drawing page, so skipped pages are free.
  3. Add your design standards (optional). Your firm's rules apply to every project; a project can add its own requirements, which win where they conflict. Without any, the review checks against the NEC and sound engineering practice.
  4. Start the review. It takes a few minutes. Every breaker, feeder, transformer and panel on the diagrams is inventoried, traced and checked.

What you get back

  • Findings, one per distinct problem: what's wrong, the components involved, the rule or code section it rests on, a one-line fix, and the reasoning with the values compared. Each is marked as an error, missing information, something to confirm, or uncertain (couldn't be read).
  • The component inventory: every device and feeder with its ratings as drawn, what feeds it and what it feeds, and what was checked on it.
  • What each page turned out to be, so you can see which sheets were reviewed and which were read for context.

See the sample report for a real review of a real one-line.

Limits

SideRiser is a review aid, not a stamp. Findings need checking by a qualified engineer against the actual design and equipment. Drawings exported from CAD with a text layer give the best results; scanned sheets are read visually, which is slower and less certain, and the review says which parts it couldn't read.

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