A new tool for drawing pipes in the circuit has been added, which allows the properties of an existing pipe to be copied when adding a new pipe.
To use this tool, click on its icon in the "Distribution" section of the toolbar. First, click on the existing pipe to be copied. The new pipe definition panel will appear, containing the properties of the existing copied pipe. Edit the panel if desired and click on "Accept" to start drawing the pipe.
A new unit has been added to the program: the hydraulic indoor unit. This is a commercial unit that brings together all the hydraulic accessories needed in domestic air-source heat pump systems, such as circulating pumps, expansion tanks or buffer tanks, in the same unit. In order to have access to these accessories, simply connect this unit between the air-to-water heat pump and the circuit inside the building.
To place a hydraulic indoor unit in the circuit, click on its icon in the "Fittings" section of the toolbar and place it on the drawing. To define its properties, a unit must be selected from the "Library". Once it has been correctly connected to the circuit, when analysing the system, the hydraulic indoor unit will display the results corresponding to the accessories it contains.
The calculation result of the "Loss of accumulated pressure" of the pipes has been included, both in the results displayed on the screen and in the results report.
After the calculation, when hovering the cursor over a pipe, the pipe’s data is displayed on the screen, and among the data, the result of the "Loss of accumulated pressure" will be shown. This value is the sum of the pressure losses in the elements located between the generator and the indicated pipe, which are both included.
It is now possible to display the worst case path in terms of pressure loss. This path determines the necessary pressure increase in the circulation pump.
To view it, after the "Calculation", select the "Graphical analysis of the results" option in the toolbar and click on the new options in the pop-up dialogue box "Worst case path, cold water" or "Worst case path, hot water". This will cause the pipes that are part of this path in each circuit of the building to be highlighted in blue if they are cold water pipes or in red if they are hot water pipes.
In the help tool for filling in the currency code, within the general parameters of the project, the following references from ISO 4217 have been added:
As of version 2024.b, applications with the "Element selection tool" (this tool was implemented in version 2021.e) have the ability to move the selected model components with the arrow keys on the keyboard. The elements shall be moved on the work plane of the active view in the direction of the arrow key. Whenever the arrow is pressed, the distance that is displaced is constant, so zooming will make it larger or smaller.
Version 2024.b includes the following improvements and corrections to the connection of applications to the BIMserver.center platform:
The status information bar of the BIMserver.center project is located at the top right of the window of the programs included in the Open BIM workflow. This bar has been available in the applications since version 2022.e and shows a warning icon when there is a problem with the connection to the project, as well as other things. Now, in version 2024.b, users can obtain more information about the warning by hovering the mouse cursor over the icon.
As of version 2024.b, users can create projects associated with a "BIMserver.center Corporate" account from all CYPE applications included in the Open BIM workflow. To do this, the "Owner" field has been added to the window for creating a new project. This is a drop-down menu that includes, as one of the available options, the logged-in BIMserver.center user name along with the "BIMserver.center Corporate" accounts to which it has access. When selecting the user name as the owner, the project will be associated with this personal account, as was the case in previous versions. On the other hand, if a BIMserver.center Corporate account is selected, the project will be associated with that account.
The "Clear cache" button has been added to the CYPE applications included in the Open BIM workflow in the "Configuration" dialogue box that opens with the following sequence of commands: Select any of the options in the "BIMserver.center" tool group > "Configuration" option in the dialogue box that appears. When clicking on "Clear cache", the following options are displayed:
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.
In the previous version (2023.g) a new 3D work environment was implemented in CYPEHVAC. Now, in version 2024.a, reports with the main results of the system calculation and the possibility of configuring the documents generated by the program from the available reports have been included: "Results", "Materials" and "Drawings".
In addition, the "Graphical analysis of the results" tool has been adapted to the new 3D environment for displaying different calculation variables on the system, modifying the colour of the pipe spans depending on the value of the variable.
