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CYPE Sewerage

Long access paths

In previous versions, file paths used by applications were limited to a maximum length of 256 characters. This restriction is not specific to CYPE tools but is set by default in the Windows file system. As of version 2024.b, CYPE applications can bypass the restriction and allow the use of an extended path length for a maximum total path length of 10,000 characters. This eliminates the problems caused by the default limit and allows users to work with long access paths.

This improvement is particularly useful when working on projects with a complex directory structure or with long file names. By allowing longer paths, CYPE applications offer greater flexibility in file organisation.

Classic menu of CYPE programs

As of version 2024.b, the classic menu of CYPE programs has a downloadable version available from the BIMserver.center platform Store.

This new classic menu downloaded from BIMserver.center includes the same applications and layout as the version available from the download area of the CYPE website, but with some differences.

When installing the BIMserver.center menu, only those applications that are not available for individual download in BIMserver.center will be included in the installation. The other applications in the BIMserver.center menu (those that can be downloaded individually from the BIMserver.center Store) can be downloaded and installed when they are opened for the first time from this new menu.

Import the topographic model of the land

Any of the infrastructure programs (Water Supply, Sewage, Electrification and Gas Supply) can import a topographic model of the land if the project is connected to a BIM model located in BIMserver.center that contains an IFC4 file with the landa data defined in an “IfcGeographicElement” type entity.

If an IFC of these characteristics is imported, the land will appear on the screen represented with contour lines and when the nodes of the network are introduced, the elevation of the land where they are located will be used automatically, greatly aiding in the definition of the network.

If additionally, the geometry of the land is to be visible in the 3D views of the program and in the 3D viewer of BIMserver.center, the IFC4 must have an associated GLTF file that includes that 3D view.

The reading of topographic models of the land is also included in the new equivalent infrastructure programs that are installed from the BIMserver.center platform (CYPE Water Supply, Open BIM Sewage, CYPE Electrification and CYPE Gas Supply).

Connection to a BIM model

In the 2019.e version of CYPE software, its "suite" of urban infrastructure programs (Water Supply, Sewage, Electrification and Gas Supply) is included in the Open BIM workflow. From then on, the "suite" can be accessed, as it could until now, from the CYPE program menu (with its classic name); and as programs that can be downloaded from the "BIMserver.center" platform:

  • CYPE Water Supply
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

  • Open BIM Sewage
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

  • CYPE Electrification
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese

  • CYPE Gas Supply
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, English and Portuguese

Both versions of each type of infrastructure are the same tool, with the same way of working during the introduction, analysis, design and obtaining of the documentation of the installation. The only difference between the classic versions of the infrastructure programs and those that can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform, is that in the classic, the connection to a BIM model is optional and those of the BIMserver.center platform must be connected to a BIM model.

Some of the advantages of including the infrastructure programs in the Open BIM workflow are:

  • Import the topographic model of the terrain
    If an IFC4 file exists in the BIM model, which is located on the BIMserver.center that includes the data of the terrain in an entity of the type “IfcGeographicElement”.

  • Import the 3D view of other specialties


  • Export the documents and 3D view of the installation to the BIM model

  • Update the imported information of the BIM model

CYPE Water Supply, Open BIM Sewage, CYPE Electrification, CYPE Gas Supply (new programs)

In the 2019.e version of CYPE software, its "suite" of urban infrastructure programs (Water Supply, Sewage, Electrification and Gas Supply) is included in the Open BIM workflow. From then on, the "suite" can be accessed, as it could until now, from the CYPE program menu (with its classic name); and as programs that can be downloaded from the "BIMserver.center" platform:

  • CYPE Water Supply
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese
  • Open BIM Sewage
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

  • CYPE Electrification
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese

  • CYPE Gas Supply
    Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, English and Portuguese

Both versions of each type of infrastructure are the same tool, with the same way of working during the introduction, analysis, design and obtaining of the documentation of the installation. The only difference between the classic versions of the infrastructure programs and those that can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform, is that in the classic, the connection to a BIM model is optional and those of the BIMserver.center platform must be connected to a BIM model.

Some of the advantages of including the infrastructure programs in the Open BIM workflow are:

  • Import the topographic model of the terrain
    If an IFC4 file exists in the BIM model, which is located on the BIMserver.center that includes the data of the terrain in an entity of the type “IfcGeographicElement”.

  • Import the 3D view of other specialties


  • Export the documents and 3D view of the installation to the BIM model

  • Update the imported information of the BIM model