As of the 2019.e version, the 3D representation in the applications that are integrated in the Open BIM workflow contains the elements of the application itself as well as those contained in the GLTF files exported by the rest of the applications whose IFC files have been linked to the model.
The 2019.e version includes a new 3D view system in most of its programs: CYPECAD, CYPE 3D and the entire family of applications integrated in the Open BIM workflow. It will be incorporated progressively in other programs.
The properties of the system are:
For this viewing system to operate correctly, the applications require a video card that is compatible with OpenGL 3.3 or higher.
Shortcuts "
" to the “General options” have been added in the following sections of the top toolbar:
Tag management in drawings has been improved. Now, tags follow pipes or their associated element when they are moved.
Additionally, the tool “Rotate tag” 
has been added in the “Label” menu.
The same tool has been added in CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems.
As of the 2019.d version of “CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems”, when users move elements of the installation, they are not disconnected from it.
This improvement has also been implemented in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems.
A new icon 
has been added to the “Pipes” toolbar, which users can use to completely move a drainpipe, from its initial floor to the last. In previous versions, they could only be moved using the generic “Move” tool 
from the “Edit” menu, which continues to exist to move any element. However, when this tool is used to move drainpipes, only the span of the pipe of the floor that is shown on-screen is moved.
In both cases, only the drainpipe is moved and not the horizontal pipes that connect to it.
The tool to move complete vertical drainpipes () has also been implemented in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems and CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems.
As of the 2019.d version, drawings by circuit can be chosen (Discharge pipes, Return pipes, Auxiliary discharge pipes and Roofs) in the “Edit drawings (Floor plans)” dialogue box. Furthermore, users can design the catalogue keys of the pipes and storage tanks.
In the 2D view of CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems, circuits can now be viewed by layer.
Furthermore, the management of the layers in the 3D views has been improved; the layers of the discharge and return circuits have been separated.
In the 2019.d version, users can indicate the height at which the general pipe installation is to be placed. This height can be indicated when the floors are edited.
In the 2019.d version, the program allows users to select the parameters that intervene in the calculation of the demand, solar contribution and hydraulic calculations of the installation that are to be analysed, and draws the installation using a colour scale 
to ease its graphical analysis in the 2D and 3D views on screen. The parameters to be analysed are selected in the dialogue box that appears when the button, that is located in the “Calculation” section of the toolbar is pressed.
Specific result ranges can also be studied in the global scope of the installation by selecting the 
button in the same section.
In the 2019.d version of CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems, the option: “Adjust the layout to the geometry of the roof” has been implemented for solar collectors (“General settings” button > “Design and check options to be carried out” section > “Solar thermal collectors” or “Solar thermal collectors with storage tanks” button > Edit or create a collector).
The option “Adjust the layout to the geometry of the roof” is activated or deactivated independently for each type of solar collector that has been defined in the general options.
If the option “Adjust the layout to the geometry of the roof” is activated, the program will automatically adjust the solar collector (azimuth, slope and installation height) to that of the geometry of the roof when users select the “Design” button in the panel that appears when a solar collector is introduced or edited.
If the option “Adjust the layout to the geometry of the roof” is not activated, the program will only adjust the azimuth and the slope to its optimum values (regardless of the geometry of the roof) when users select the “Design” button from the panel that appears when a solar collector is introduced or edited.
CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems performs the design and analysis of the complete solar thermal energy contribution installation for hot water and heating, or part of it, in any type of building, in compliance with the corresponding standard and with personalised design configurations of other standards or personal technical limits.
In its first version, “CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems” includes the prescriptions of CTE DB HE 4 (Spain) and the possibility to establish other conditions to comply with standards of other countries. In upcoming versions, other standards will be implemented, so users will not have to define their requirements and can simply select the code to be applied.
CYPELUMBING Solar Systems can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform and is integrated in the Open BIM workflow using the IFC standard.
The program designs the thermal installation using the F-Chart method and performs the hydraulic analysis (automatic design), using the “Darcy and Weisbach” formulas, and calculates the friction factor using the “Colebrook and White” equation.
It contains predefined equipment catalogues to develop the installations, but also allows configurable catalogues to be introduced.
CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems allows users to configure the design and checks that have to be carried out on any of the elements of the installation (solar thermal collectors, storage tanks, valves, circulation pumps, horizontal and vertical pipes).
Having completed the analysis, check and design processes, CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems generates:
To be able to work with “CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems” users must have the corresponding permit, which is the same as for the CYPECAD MEP module “Solar thermal energy”. The permit must be updated to the 2019 or later versions.
Even though CYPEPLUMBING Solar Systems shares the same permit as the CYPECAD MEP module “Solar thermal energy”, “CYPELUMBING Solar Systems” has important advantages, which include:
More information on this new CYPE program will be available shortly.
