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Find Feeder Tool

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To locate and navigate the feeders and subfeeders in your map, use the Find Feeder tool. This tool replaces the Select By Feeder tool in Feeder Manager 1.0. It searches for FeederName and FeederIDs for both sources and subsources.

You must add it to a toolbar:

  1. Click Customize > Customize Mode.
  2. In the Commands tab, type Find Feeder into the Show commands containing field.
  3. Drag the Find Feeder command to a toolbar.

  • Note that if you reset the toolbar to which you added the Find Feeder tool, you cannot re-add the Find Feeder tool to any toolbar until you restart ArcMap.
  • You can only use a single instance of the Find Feeder tool.

Before using the Find Feeder tool, ensure that your electric geometric network is active in the Utility Network Analyst toolbar:

  1. Click Customize > Toolbars > Utility Network Analyst.
  2. Select your electric geometric network from the drop-down menu.

Start to type the name of a feeder into the search bar. A list of existing feeders appears and shortens as your search becomes more specific. These results include the following. If the first field in the sequences below is null, it looks to the second field listed, and so forth:

If you press enter without selecting a feeder from the list, the first feeder in the list is displayed in the Find Feeder tool.

 

Highlighting

When you select a feeder from the list of search results, click Zoom To Extent to highlight it on the map via a graphic layer. The highlighting respects reference scale settings, if you have specified any. The highlighting disappears only when you close the Find Feeder tool.

Highlighting behaves differently depending on whether the Find Feeder tool displays an ultimate source or a subsource:

Note that when using the Find Feeder tool, de-energized subsources return only themselves. Similarly, de-energized subsources can only be visualized when zooming to extent.

It's important to remember that subsources feed, but do not energize, downstream features. Subsources themselves must be energized in order for the Find Feeder tool to discover them. 

 

Find Feeder commands

These commands are relevant to each of the tabs in the Find Feeder tool.

 

Stats tab

This tab shows certain feeder data as it exists at the time of finding the feeder. Edits that affect these feeder data made while a feeder is displayed in the tool are not immediately reflected here. To refresh the data on the Stats tab, e.g., after making an edit to something that affects these data, you must collapse and expand the Find Feeder tool, then click the Stats tab again.

 

Tie Devices tab

The Tie Devices tab identifies the feeders and subsources on the other side of each listed tie device. You can click on the underlined feeder to explore it using the Find Feeder tool.

The feeders on the other side of the tie devices are labeled by Feeder ID. If there is no Feeder Id they are labeled by Feeder Name. If there is no Feeder Name they are labeled by Object ID.

The tie device is labeled according to the device's primary display field or ObjectID.

You can zoom to each tie device in the list. This button respects ArcFM's Zoom To Buffer Size setting.

Use the Toggle Tie Device Symbols to better visualize tie devices. This draws a graphic over the tie devices of the feeder currently displayed by the Find Feeder tool. This command respects reference scale settings.

 

Find Feeder settings

The Find Feeder tool respects the Trace task result color setting in the ArcFM Electric Trace Options. Use this to change the trace result color when using Zoom To Extent in the Find Feeder tool.

If you are zoomed to the extent of the feeder before you adjust this option, you must again use the zoom to the extent button to see the new color in the map.

 

 


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