/AUTOSAN : Plumbing networks design
Faster design and installation of plumbing networks, equipment, supply and drains with software AUTOSAN
AUTOSAN
Faster supply and drain plumbing network design.
Calculate, design and quantify in single line and double line:
- Water supply networks
- All supply and drain conduits.
Smart routing of plumbing networks with AUTOSAN
AUTOSAN’s smart routing commands adapt to the type of network you are routing as you go. Drawing gets faster and easier as the application intuitively proposes the most pertinent design options as the routing process advances.
Objects are created on demand as the lines are drawn thus avoiding all the endless searching though component libraries. The objects you need to design even the most specific networks will always be at hand.
Main features :
- Point to point routing for one-line or two-line water plumbing networks.
- Detailed design of all accessories depending on their configuration.
- Automatic component insertion: Tee, connector, elbow, reducer, etc.
- In line insertion of valves fittings on existing conduits
- Connection with AUTOTUBE’s double line drawings and possibility to combine parmeters in common.
- Valves library
- Point by point routing of under slab piping
- Modify 2D design without re-drawing
Modify your AUTOSAN plumbing networks in 2D without re-redrawing
Adjustments to an existing elbow going down for example, is even faster than for the original outline. The “Change” control, detects the network that has been outlined and then allows one object to be exchanged with another from an intuitive pre-selection. For example, you can easily switch an elbow for a tee with plug in one operation.
Moving and deleted objects is no big deal as the shape of the adjacent parts of the network adapt automatically. There’s no need to redraw it anymore.
When you delete an object, the network changes to fit the new configuration. For example, if you delete a Y branch, the conduit will “close” automatically.
Easier text insertion
AUTOSAN pre-programs and pre-formats your text. By clicking on an already existing network, certain items of technical information (such as the duct size) will be recognised and used automatically.
The application automatically inserts text prefixes and suffixes. The pipe size will be formatted to suit the specification. These features also include:
- The creation of single or multi-line text
- Line number selection
- Automatic tracing of extension lines, frames, arrows, points, etc.
- If the text is modified the extension lines and frames are adjusted automatically
- Font and size selection
- Automatic scaling.
Day to day efficent calculations for water supply and drains
network design
AUTOSAN offers a range of calculation engines to meet the day-to-day needs of engineering practices in the field of air conditioning and ventilation.
- Spot duct size calculations, according to the type of fluid, the velocity, the increase coefficient or the simultaneity coefficient.
- Calculation of the coefficients of friction (J) of the proposed duct sizes.
- Dynamic calculation of network sizes in a diagram.
- Calculation of levels while routing the network, after the duct sizes were changed.
To go further, AUTOSAN gives users the freedom to refine claculations according to their specific needs.
Dynamic duct size calculation :
“Network calculator”
The “Supply Network Calculator” commands in AUTOSAN use a visual method. It makes it easy to calculate sections from an interactive diagram of your network. This clear, concise diagram contains all the information you need to design the 2D plan of your plumbing network.
With this method, the design and drawing only take place once the data has been worked out with the network calculator.
This process saves you from having to design, claculate and then re-design, according to the results of your calculations. As it is often the case with 3D software.
The Network Calculator is a lightweight yet powerful tool that allows you to dimension networks of any size using a simple network calculator diagram.
Size you networks in an instant
- Draw a simple diagram of your network with the Line command of your CAD software.
- Specify the equipment to be fitted at the end branches.
- AUTOSAN calculates the duct sizes of each branch immediatly.
- You get a dynamic calculation diagram where AUTOSAN immediately recalculates when you make changes, try and compare with different equipment or change the network structure.
Quicker with every operation
The detailed analysis of working experiences in design offices has revealed a multitude of opportunities to simplify and accelerate the production of quality design and technical plans.
Here are just a few examples:
- Show a two-line or single-line network crossing by “hiding” or “cutting with offset” one of the conduits in just 2 clicks.
- Recover the impact from one level to another
- Automatically rebuild a conduit after cutting
- Practical operations on layers such as freezing, transfer or locking
- Simplified measurement in relation to your CAD software
- Proportionality factors
- Thickness management, etc…
Calculs dynamiques des sections : “Minute”
Les commandes de calcul “Minute” dans AUTOSAN utilisent une méthode visuelle qui facilite le calcul des sections à partir d’un schéma interactif de son réseau. Ce schéma clair et concis contient toutes les informations necessaires pour dessiner ensuite le plan de votre réseau sanitaire en 2D.
Avec cette méthode, la conception et le dessin ne se font qu’une fois les données établies dans la minute. Vous évitez ainsi de concevoir, calculer, puis reconcevoir le réseau en fonction des calculs obtenus, comme c’est le cas avec beaucoup d’outils 3D.
C’est un outil puissant et léger : un simple schéma de calcul “minute” permet de dimensionner des réseaux de toutes tailles.
Clear and precise bills of equipment
- Creation of a zone to define the network and material quantities
- Automatic and immediate extraction of conduits quantities within a pre-defined zone
- Automatic and immediate extraction of materials within a pre-defined zone
- Export lists from your AUTOSAN plumbing networks to AUTOCAD or EXCEL
- Automatic management and insertion of assigned blocks.
Automated openings
- Design of openings in floor-slabs or walls
- Creation of openings based on completed network designs
- Creation of openings without a network design
- Selection of opening forms
- Automatic measurement of openings
- Location definition and automatic incrementing of the location reference
- Opening design update by modifying its label
- Opening nomnclature extraction with export to AUTOCAD or EXCEL.
Perfect plumbing networks plan layouts
Automatic and immediate page layout for diagrams with generation of presentations:
- Automatic format and label insertion
- View creation with automated scaling
- Rapid insertion of bill of equipment tables
- Simplified modification of existing view scales
- Automatic margin notes including file name and location address along with the XREF associated with the file.
Arrows
Vertical ducts:
- Automatic insertion and placement of arrows indicating floor penetrations and fluid direction
- Automatic modification of arrow directions
Horizontal ducts:
- Indication of fluid direction
- Indication of slopes
Dedicated layer management.
Complete configuration setup of AUTOSAN for even greater rapidity
The default AUTOSAN setup is being continually refined as the application develops and benefits from years of operational experience. However each user and design office has their own specificities of course. For even greater speed, the application can be configured in every way imaginable. Such as:
- .DWG file preference recognition (when your .DWG file is opened, the corresponding file preferences will be automatically loaded along with the management of the most recent changes)
- Working units
- Line scale
- Layer names and colours
- Configurable line types
- Hatching types for coatings (heatproof, flocking, slab, etc.)
- Automatic configuration of TP scales and management of the shift from object space to paper space (can be automated but not obligatory)
- Design and calculation unit settings
- Graphic appearance settings
- And many other user setting possibilities.
Easy and secure plan background processing
AVANT/APRÈS application du paramétrage
- Entity colours
- Layer colours
- Z coordinate zero reset
- Isolate text, hatching, dimensions…
- Text font processing
- Smart layer re-naming for easier sorting
- System management (Metric/Imperial)
- Management of line thickness, TP scales, etc.
AVANT/APRÈS application du traitement
Layer management
Even greater layer management flexibility for your project. All layer names and structures are possible. With this, AUTOSAN optimises management:
- By speciality, depending on the one-line or two-line representation mode (highly flexible).
- Depending on graphic entity type (networks, materials, etc.).
Different layer associations are possible to save time.
Graphic variables
Each designer has their own personal touch, and this is often the sign of genuine know-how. AUTOSAN’s graphics variables can adjust:
- Representation of the appearance of the ducts.
- Representation of texts, measurements, arrows, duct intersections.
Proportionality management depending on the output scale to provide even greater legibility. Such as:
- Smart adjustment of vertical duct diameters
- Adapted line thickness
- Arrow sizes
- Improved radiator thickness representation
- And many other graphic settings.
Calculation variables
Take your calculations even further with refining variables:
- Rectangular/circular cross-section conversions.
- Material friction coefficients.
- Flow-rate units, pressure loss units.