This new feature is available in any CYPE program with a 3D interface. The section fills allow for the model to be viewed more clearly, this way avoiding some display problems that existed on plan and section views.
Tools have been implemented that automatically generate all the pipes and accessories of the aliaxis catalogue for each part of the installation. To be able generate the elements, the BIM project of the BIMserver.center platform to which the Open BIM aliaxis is connected, must have information on the analysis of the installation. The BIM project obtains these analysis results from CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems.
Tools have also been created to generate connections other than those that are generated automatically.
Furthermore, in this version (2021.c), it is possible to select parts of the installation so that different series of pipes and accessories can be assigned to them automatically.
Since previous versions, Open BIM MOVAIR reads the information from the design model that has been generated by CYPEHVAC Ductwork from the BIM project that is located on the BIMserver.center platform. As of version 2021.c Open BIM MOVAIR also interprets the duct design models that are provided by other programs that include them on the BIMserver.center platform using the IFC standard format.
Now, by reading the design model (provided by CYPEHVAC Ductwork or by any other program that generates it in IFC format), Open BIM MOVAIR can represent the layout of the ducts on screen, using auxiliary lines, with all the information that is required to design the installation using parts from the MOVAIR catalogue.
Now, the program displays the diameters and lengths of pipes, and the references of the equipment in the workspace.
Furthermore, in the diagram that Open BIM PANASONIC generates automatically, the values for the total cooling, sensible and heating capacities are represented in blue and red respectively.
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In this version of CYPE Architecture, you can find direct links to other applications that are available on BIMserver.center to continue to develop your project.
This way, you can add more information to your architectural model, such as: describe the construction solutions for each architectural element; check the urban regulations of your municipality; measure the model to obtain price estimates; arrange the electrical mechanisms for their subsequent design; or compose your project drawings.
Since the previous version (2021.b), CYPE Architecture has an option with which users can edit the colour of the elements of the "Architecture" tab using the "Colours" button.
Taking advantage of this tool, in the 2021.c version, the "colours" panel also allows users to assign a texture to each colour of the library, and so, give the model a more realistic appearance.
The library contains 43 textures that are classified by groups (timber, concrete, stoneware, marble, steel, stone, brick and grass).
From the layers panel, users can show or hide textures during the modelling process.
The textured model can be viewed both on the BIMserver.center platform and in the rest of the Open BIM workflow programs.
This new feature is available in CYPE Architecture and in any program with a 3D CYPE interface. The section filling allows the model to be viewed more clearly, thus avoiding some display problems that existed in plan and in section.
To view the fill correctly in the other BIMserver.center applications, you must re-export the project from "CYPE Architecture".
Improvements and corrections have been made to the following functionalities: walls, curtain walls, columns, floors, windows, doors, openings, spaces, tiles, roof ridges and valleys, and furniture.
The 2021.c version of Open BIM Layout has been remodelled and includes new features and ways of working to give greater potential to the program when generating drawings using a BIM model.
As of the 2021.c version, using the "Edit template" tool, users can modify the typology of a component of the physical model in order to indicate whether it acts as "Own shadow" or "Remote shadow". This is especially important when executing the automatic generation process of the analytical model since it needs to know which elements produce shading in order to include their derived surfaces in the shading group.
The option "Delete opening" has been added within the "Elements" group of the application toolbar. Thanks to this new tool, it is now possible, to eliminate openings that are associated with surfaces of the analytical model, graphically on the work area. In previous versions, the only alternative was to delete the openings by manually editing the BIM model of the project (Project> BIM Model).
The element groups "Own shadows" and "Remote shadows" of the physical model have been added to the object snap options of the application. This way, it is now possible to view and snap to them in order to define their derived surfaces in the analytical model of the building.
The "Spaces" of the physical model have been added to the object snap options of the application. This way, it is now possible to view and snap to the 3D outlines of architectural spaces in order to define their surfaces and derived edges in the analytical model of the building. It should be noted that the surfaces that make up the outline are used by the automatic generation process of the analytical model. Consequently, thanks to this implementation, users can verify that they are defined correctly before executing the task.
The algorithm that automatically determines the analytical model of the building from the architectural model has been improved. Amongst the adjustments that have been carried out, the level of precision in the detection of surfaces in small rooms has been increased and the analysis of shading elements with complex geometries has been improved.
This optimisation represents an increase in the quality of the information that CYPE's Open BIM applications for thermal and acoustic analysis can read.
In the previous version (2021.b) the possibility to customise reports in CYPECAD based on predefined reports was implemented.
Now, in the 2021.c version, the following predefined reports have been added to optionally include them as chapters in the customisable reports:
If any of these chapters is selected, it is possible to configure the data to be listed using the "Report options" button.
As of the 2021.c version, the "New floors" option allows for floors to be added below the current foundation group.
Users can choose the colours with which the elements of the project are exported in two different ways:
The 2021.c version of CYPECAD also includes other small improvements and correction of issues that could occur in unique cases:
The connection selection dialogue box has been improved, where the available connections have been grouped into various categories. The different types of connections are now shown with an image.
The following types of connections have been implemented:
Bolted connection between a rectangular tube and the I-section web stiffener. A cutting angle at the end of the tube is defined to be able to place the bolts inside the tube.
This connection joins I-section columns and beams. It is a moment connection in which the flanges and web of the beam are bolted to plates that are welded to the column. The plates of the flanges are joined to the column using butt welds. The web plate can be connected to the column with fillet or butt welds.
This connection joins I-section columns and beams. It is a moment connection in which the flanges of the beam are joined to the flange of the column using butt welds. The web of the beam is connected to the column using a side plate that is welded and bolted to the web of the beam.
Various connections have been adapted to reinforced sections with variable depth. The adapted connections are:
The elements that are generated by the connections can now be grouped in parts that are manufactured in the workshop, depending on the position of the execution of the welds.
The welds can be executed on site or in the workshop. Elements that are connected with a workshop weld will form a single element.
For each connection that is available in the program, users can select the place of execution, where the default option is the workshop.
A new tool has been implemented to number the elements. Users can choose the prefix and initial number, as well as the option to assign a colour to each element automatically.
Identical elements will have the same assigned reference.
A new functionality to represent labels in elements has been added.
In general options, the Representation options icon incorporates three tabs:
Users can now enter emergency lighting, thereby increasing the number of elements that can be entered into the program.
The lights are entered in a similar way as are light points and other electrical mechanisms.
The quick connection tool between the lighting points and the junction box (located in the toolbar and labelled "Horizontal, to junction box") is extended to the selection of the pattress box. This way, time is saved in the connection, since, as well as being able to select lighting and emergency points, it is also possible to select the pattress boxes in which the switches are located.
Emergency lights could already be entered in CYPELEC Distribution. As of the 2021.c version, it is possible to read emergency lights that are contained in the BIM model, for example those from CYPELEC Electrical Mechanisms (which can also be entered in this version ). This improves the Open BIM workflow.
CYPELEC Distribution allows for users to define the distribution of a three-phase circuit with single-phase loads. To define this distribution, the polarity of the circuit must be 3F+N and the supply of the loads single-phase.
This circuit is represented in CYPELEC Core, CYPELEC REBT, CYPELEC NF and CYPELEC RETIE as a three-phase distributed circuit with single-phase loads connected along its path.
In the process that generates shadows on the solar collectors, the shadows that are generated by the building's own construction elements are taken into account. Illustrative examples of shadows produced by these elements are listed below:
It is important to mention that for these elements to generate shadows it is essential that the BIM model be up-to-date and import the architectural model again.
The "Bill of quantities" tab has been added to the toolbar of the "CYPEFIRE Design" application.
In the "Bill of quantities" tab, users have tools to generate and manage the bill of quantities of the installation that the program analyses. In this tab, users can extract the quantities of the model and, using that information, generate real job items. This process is carried out using a correspondence system between the elements that are measured on the design model and the concepts of the bill of quantities (mapping). This equivalency is stored in a local or network directory so that it can be expanded progressively and used in future projects.
To enter the prices of the project more easily, users can import complete databases and individual concepts from cost databases that have been developed in FIEBDC-3 (.bc3) format, such as those from the Construction Price Generator by CYPE.
The documents of the bill of quantities can be extracted in several reports (Quantities, Cost breakdown structure, Priced bill of quantities, Detailed bill of quantities, BoQ summary) which can be exported in HTML, DOCX, PDF, RTF and TXT format.
More information on the "Bill of quantities" tab in Open BIM applications of the project phase.
The analysis and design of an automatic sprinkler system can be quite complex. All the hydraulic design requirements that must be met by the different applicable regulations make the selection of the pipes one of the most complex tasks in the design of the installation.
To facilitate this process, from the 2021.c version, "CYPEFIRE Hydraulic Systems" has the new "Automatic design" tool.
This tool can be configured by users in "General options > Design criteria". From this panel it is possible to edit the diameters to be used in the design and the maximum number of sprinklers that each diameter can supply before moving on to the next available diameter.
If users do not want to change the default data, the "design" tool will launch the diameter selection process and then the hydraulic analysis. This selection and hydraulic analysis process will end if no errors are found when the results that are obtained are compared with the requirements of the regulations. Otherwise, the process will be repeated until valid diameters are selected, to comply with the applied regulations.
As of the 2021.c version, users will be able to work with CYPEFIRE Hydraulic Systems using Italsan catalogues. Specifically, using the products included in the NIRON RED system (polypropylene piping systems for fire protection installations).
In the "General options" panel, users can select the Italsan logo to import its catalogue (located under the regulations that are implemented in the application). Once imported, the sprinkler installation can be designed with all the available products, in accordance with the indications of this manufacturer.
Thermal loads have been incorporated in the spaces. Now, users can enter the loads manually or they can be read automatically from the BIM project to which the project is connected if it has this information.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) climate database "ASHRAE Weather Data Viewer 6.0" has been added to CYPEHVAC Ductwork.
As of the 2021.c version, CYPETHERM LOADS, CYPETHERM EPlus, CYPETHERM RT2012, CYPETHERM RT2012 CNOA, CYPETHERM COMETH, CYPETHERM RTExistant, CYPETHERM RECS and CYPETHERM Fujitsu can import, from a BIM project that is located on the BIMserver.center platform, the analysis and study of the thermal bridges that any of them has exported to the project. This way, once the study has been carried out on one of them, it will be available to the rest without having to repeat it in each program.
Now it is possible to duplicate cost databases in the same way as is done with mapping files ("Bill of Quantites" tab) and the measurement criteria (Open BIM Quantities). When a cost database is copied, the documents that are associated with the concepts that make up the database ("Graphic information", "Attached documents" and "Specifications") will also be duplicated.
The cost databases can be managed using the corresponding button, which is located in the Open BIM Quantities toolbar and the "Bill of Quantities" tab, in the applications that include it.
Two example projects have been included: "Proyecto de edificio de viviendas" and "Technical school" with their corresponding measurement rules and cost databases.
The following references have been added in the help tool to fill in the currency code, within the general parameters of the project:
A concept filter based on tags has been added, and is available in the configuration panel when exporting the bill of quantities to a file with FIEBDC-3 format (.bc3). When a tag is added to the filter list, only job items containing detail lines to which that tag has been assigned will be included.
As of the 2021.c version, users can enter the information related to the tender specifications in the prices of a project or in a cost database.
Using the "Specifications" option that is contained in the "Project" group of the toolbar, users can define the codes of the sections of each specification, as well as their corresponding labels. Once the structure has been established, the data that refers to each section in each concept (chapter, job item or unit price). It should be noted that, in addition to a text with the contents of the section, users can attach an RTF file and/or an HTML file.
The specifications have been incorporated into the import and export process of the bills of quantities and cost databases in FIEBDC-3 format. For this, as is indicated in the specification of the standard, the -L, -Q and/or -J registers are used. As was done with the "Graphic information" and the "Attached documents", the reading or writing of the specifications is optional and can be controlled from the same configuration panel.
It is important to bear in mind that the FIEBDC-3 format is used by CYPE's Open BIM applications that include the "Bill of Quantities" tab to transmit their data to Open BIM Quantities via the BIMserver.center platform. Consequently, the specifications that are generated in other applications can also be read in Open BIM Quantities to consolidate them and obtain the full project specifications.
Finally, a new document has been added to the "Bill of quantity reports" in order to create the "Specifications" of the project. When it is generated, only concepts that have information about a section of the specifications will be listed, together with the content that has been entered.
This tool allows users to easily print, by means of a template, any column composition that is contained in the work area of the "Decomposition tree" and "List of concepts" windows. This way, the work that must be carried out is simplified because users do not have to create or modify an existing report template to print the contents of these windows.
This tool is activated from the "Print view contents" option of the "Tree" and "List" menus, or by pressing the right button of the mouse on the tab of the view (in tree or in list) of the database from which the contents are to be printed.
The "Print view contents" dialogue box contains several options:
The "Print view contents" tool creates a report template automatically to be able to print the columns of the "Decomposition tree" or "Concept list" window. The template can be modified by users to adapt it to their own style.
The "Add level" tool is included and there are more available alphanumeric parameters and numerical fields of material examples for comments when measuring by material quantities.
Users can now configure the comments of the quantity lines of items that use materials, by means of alphanumeric parameters or numerical fields. The alphanumeric parameters are available in the items that use that material. Numerical fields were already used to carry out the calculation combination.