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Flexible, Quick, Efficient: with PipeCAD you can obtain the Boiler Room 3D Design as easily as drawing a supply pipe system net. Here’s how it works: |
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Step 1: Rooms drawing
To create the 3D solid model it is necessary to draw the external and partition walls.
To draw them the user must follow the internal line of the external walls when drawing the external wall, and the mid line when drawing the partition walls.
Additionally, it is possible to insert the windows and the doors in order to study the correct placement of each component. The three dimensional design of the rooms is totally automatic.
Finally, to obtain the correct available space, it is possible to draw a slope roof.
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Step 2: Boiler and chiller placement
Usually, these components are placed on the roof or above the external ceiling. Occasionally, they are wall-mounted. To place them it is necessary to indicate the rotation angle around the Z axis.
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Step 3: Construction and placement of the manifold
Before inserting the manifold in the design, the user must complete its management form, inserting all required data.
Creating a new manifold is simple because it is enough to indicate the number of connections, the diameters, the right position and the distance from the previous or from the board.
The program can calculate the diameters automatically, but it depends on the water flow rate or on the circuit’s power.
Finally, it is necessary to specify the connections and support height.
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Step 4: Tank and expansion tank placement
The tank can be vertical or horizontal; its management form and that of the expansion tank is the same. Like all Mc4Suite 2008’s objects, these can be created and then saved by the user.
Moreover, the user can modify the objects already present in the archive.
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Step 5: Valves and measurement instruments drawing
The automatic positioning of all in-line components simplifies the valves and measurement instruments drawing.
To insert one of these objects it is necessary to select the type and the pipe net system (supply or return net). To draw it, click the mouse twice: the first click fixes the position, the second fixes the rotation angle.
It is possible to insert the object in any active view (Isometric, plan, back, front, etc.).
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Step 6: Pump design
Generally, the pumps can be single or twin, in-line or basic and, the archive contains a large number of them.
There are two different ways to insert a pump in the project plan: free or connected. In the first case, the user must indicate the position and three rotation angles (around X,Y,Z axis). In the second case, one mouse click is enough to specify the rotation angle around the longitudinal axis.
In order to place the object correctly, it is necessary to select the right pipe system (supply or return net).
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Step 7: Pipes design
The user will draw the pipe’s axis.
It is important to select the diameter of the pipe, the type of fitting (Elbow, Tee, Wye, Cross), the type of pipe junction (flanged, welded, threaded, etc.); the program will insert the fittings automatically (while the user is drawing).
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Step 8: Drawing print
When the boiler room design is completed, to prepare the graphical output is very simple thanks to the layout sheet available in AutoCAD®.
Also, it is possible to enable or disable the printable layer right from the lateral bar (it is not necessary activate the layer management form). Finally, it is possible to print all 3D objects rendered.
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Step 9: Material list
As already mentioned this program creates the material list automatically.
By running a simple command the program will generate a list of objects inserted in the project plan.
The user can create a link (with drag&drop command) between the current object and a price code retrievable in a customizable prices list.
The report file can be in MSExcel or Rich Text Format.
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