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CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems

Excavation volume

The 2018.l version of CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems can calculate the excavation volumes of inspection chambers and horizontal pipes. For the program to be able to carry out this calculation, users must define:

Geometric properties of the transverse excavation profiles
Several transverse profiles of inspection chambers and horizontal pipes can be introduced and included in a library to use them in different projects.

They are defined in “General settings > Analysis and drawing options > Calculation options > Excavations”.

There are no predefined profiles by default; users must create them. In an upcoming version, predefined profiles will exist with the properties that are specified in the selected code. Users will be able to edit them and add new profiles.
Selection of types of inspection chamber and horizontal pipes with excavations
Users must select the transverse excavation profile to be used depending on the type of inspection chambers and horizontal pipes for which the soil must be excavated.
Introduction of inspection chambers and horizontal pipes
When users introduce the types of inspection chambers and horizontal pipes indicated in the previous step, the initial and final elevations of the ground must be introduced, and the program will automatically assign the excavated volume based on these elevations, the data of the transverse section of the excavation and the inlet and outlet elevations of the inspection chambers. The excavated volume that is calculated can be modified manually. Users can block the initial and final elevations of the ground, and the excavation volumes, so they do not change in future result updates.

The program displays the longitudinal profile of the horizontal pipes on-screen, which can be printed or exported to different drawing format files.

The quantities report of the network includes the excavation volumes of the inspection chambers and horizontal pipes for which the previously mentioned data has been defined.

Design options and check

Users can now add a series of complementary checks that modify and complement the specific design options and checks of the selected code.

Since the program’s first version, the design options and checks of the selected code are defined in the “Design and check options to be carried out” section of “General settings”. In the 2018.k version, the “General checks” button has been added to the “Analysis and drawing options” section of the “General settings” dialogue box, which opens a panel with same name, that allows users to configure more design and check options:

General checks
- Positioning of the traps in series
  By activating this option, users can check that these elements have not been placed in series.
- Minimum free height
  The field “Minimum free height” has been included in the definition of each floor. By activating the “Minimum free height” option in the “General checks” dialogue box, the program will check that the lowest point of each pipe span of each floor does not exceed the minimum free height that has been defined.
Calculation options
In this section of the “General checks” panel, users can create alternative options to those that have already been defined in “Design and check options to be carried out”. Several design option groups can be configured. Once defined, they will not be applied to the design of the installation until they have not been assigned by users using the “Design options” button of the “Project” section of the top tool menu.

Document configuration

The Project documents manager, which was implemented in the previous program version (2018.i), allows users to generate a document, with its index, which includes reports selected by users.

As of the 2018.j version, the manager allows users to configure several documents of the same project with different contents (e.g. a document for wastewater and another for rainwater, one that includes quantities and another that does not). This way, users do not have to change the contents of the document to generate more than one type, and can configure a collection of documents with the required contents.

Export documents to the BIM project

CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems allows users to export the quantities of the project to the BIM model in FIEBDC-3 standard format (so it can be treated by bill of quantities programs such as Arquimedes) and the document configured by users using the Document manager (also implemented in this version) in PDF format.

Configuration of the results and check reports

The “Results” report and the new “Checks” report can be configured.

Now, users can organise the information of the results report (by network, by floor, by criteria and/or by main span) and include the checks of the most important spans (main span and/or spans that fail checks), independently for the wastewater and rainwater networks.

New reports (Design criteria, Checks and Materials)

The 2018.i version of CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems includes three new reports that users can view and select to include in the project documents with the new Document manager (see previous section) together with the Results and Quantity reports that were already present in previous versions:

Design criteria
Here users can specify all the design options corresponding to the selected code or customise the design options.
Checks
In previous program versions, the program could generate a report of all the checks that have been carried out on the selected span (one by one). The checks report that is implemented in the 2018.i version gathers all the checks of all the spans.
Materials
The materials report is created with the material catalogues that are used to design the project.

Project documents manager

The 2018.i version of CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems (also the 2018.i version of CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems) includes a documents manager where users can view all the reports that are generated by the program. With this manager, users can create a document that includes selected reports, and then print it, export it to various format files (PDF, DOCX, Text, HTML, RTF) or attach it to the BIM project in PDF format (see the section on Export documents to the BIM project). The reports users can include in this document are organised in chapters with their indices and in the order they wish for them to be. It is also possible to configure the document headers and styles.

3D view of the installation

The 2018.h version of CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems includes the 3D View button. This tool shows, in a separate window, the 3D view of the BIM project. This 3D view is the same that appears in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, but the configuration of the visible elements and their perspective are independent in both views.

The new 3D view has also been implemented in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems.

Improvements when assigning properties to elements of the installation

The tool that assigns the properties of the installation has been improved. In previous versions, it was only possible to assign dimensions. As of the 2018.h version, design criteria and dimensions can be assigned to selected elements.

These improvements have also been included in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems.

On-screen messages: warnings and design errors

During the introduction and editing process of the installation, the program emits warning messages if there are connections that have not been introduced correctly. It also provides error messages when errors occur that prevent the analysis process of the installation from being carried out correctly and any errors that may arise during the analysis.

These notifications have also been implemented in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems.

Graphical analysis of the results

The 2018.h version of CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems allows users to graphically analyse the results of the installation. Users can select the parameters that intervene in the hydraulic design of the installation that they wish to analyse, and the program draws the installation using a colour scale, for a quick and easy view of the results in the 2D and 3D views it provides on-screen (including the new 3D view that has been implemented in this version). It is possible to study specific result ranges in the global aspect of the installation.

This tool has also been implemented in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems.