MAXIMISE THE BENEFITS OF BIM WITH MAGICAD FOR AUTOCAD
Building Information Modelling is a process that enables the creation of functional models of buildings and their MEP systems, and new levels of collaboration and information exchange between architects, designers, contractors and other project partners. When designing with MagiCAD, you have all it takes to carry out even the most demanding Building Information Modelling projects.
LEADING THE WAY IN BIM
With MagiCAD, all modelling is highly automated, fast and accurate. Checking the model and simulating the operation of different systems is easy and reliable. MagiCAD also enables thorough and accurate calculations on all functional and spatial aspects of the building with just a few mouse-clicks. MagiCAD creates a complete,
easy-to-manage information model that can be used as an invaluable storage of information throughout the building’s lifecycle, from the early conceptual phase, construction, and installation of the building’s MEP systems, to facility management and maintenance.
PARTNERSHIP
Designing with MagiCAD means you are ready for interaction with all parties involved in a building project – architects, structural designers, installation workers, contractors, developers and facility managers.
The goal of integration is to speed up processes and improve quality. Breaking down boundaries between project partners is one way to reach this goal.
MagiCAD is the leading BIM software for HVAC and electrical design in the Nordic countries, and one of the most widely used BIM solutions in its field in Europe. Including European and International sales, more than 15,000 licenses are in use in 45 countries.
EXPERIENCE
MagiCAD has been developed constantly since it was launched in 1998. The program has an impressive track record. It has been used for building services design in many challenging and prestigious projects – a selection of which you will find in this presentation.
The unique advantages in MagiCAD are available for any designer familiar with the world’s most widely used design software – AutoCAD and Revit from Autodesk.
MAGICAD FOR AUTOCAD AND REVIT
MagiCAD enables state-of-the-art MEP design on both AutoCAD and Revit technologies. Adding MagiCAD’s clever automated capabilities to your AutoCAD or Revit MEP makes HVAC and electrical design faster and easier, and at the same time enables new levels of reliability, accuracy and quality.
MAGICAD HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED
MagiCAD allows you to design and model MEP installations for all types of buildings. MagiCAD for AutoCAD is available in following modules:
• MagiCAD Ventilation • MagiCAD Heating & Piping • MagiCAD Sprinkler Designer • MagiCAD Electrical
• MagiCAD Circuit Designer • MagiCAD System Designer • MagiCAD Comfort & Energy
“With MagiCAD, all modelling is highly automated, fast and accurate. Checking the model and simulating the operation of different systems is easy and reliable. MagiCAD also enables thorough and accurate calculations on all functional and spatial aspects of the building with just a few mouse-clicks. When designing with
MagiCAD, you have all it takes to carry out even the most demanding Building Information Modelling projects, from start to finish.“ Mikael Ekenberg, Technical Business Developer at Progman Oy
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The power of MagiCAD
“When we started to work with MagiCAD in 2006, it immediately became our number one MEP design tool for all projects“, says Daníel Gíslason, Verkís, ReykjavikREAL PRODUCTS. With MagiCAD you design with real products from the start. When you need a valve, a radiator, a diffuser or any other installation product, you can select it from MagiCAD’s product database.
This is what makes MagiCAD so special. In the applications, such as MagiCAD Ventilation, Heating & Piping or Electrical, you design and evaluate your entire system.
The product database that’s part of MagiCAD gives you immediate access to more than one million products from leading international manufacturers. This number is steadily increasing, as new products and manufacturers are added to the database.
CALCULATIONS. The 3D product models from the database have correct dimensions, since they are modelled from physical products to a high level of detail.
They also contain technical data provided by the manufacturer. Values for pressure loss, sound levels, heating or cooling capacity, power consumption and other data are always present in the model, allowing you to make accurate calculations while designing.
The combination of MagiCAD and the product database ensures your final design will contain all the necessary information and will perform as planned.
COLLISION CONTROL. Collisions are found and corrected during the design stage. Contractors can trust the project model on site, saving installation time and improving quality. MagiCAD’s collision control covers all electrical and HVAC systems. You can even check for collisions between installations and the building’s structure.
LOGISTICS. Powerful functions for producing bills of materials (BOM) improve logistics. Working with real products results in a faster, more cost-efficient installation process. The flow of materials can be directed to the right area in the building, even to individual rooms.
PRODUCT SELECTION. MagiCAD also has a range of plugins for easier product selection. The plugins are special programs that connect MagiCAD with different manufacturers’ selec tion and dimensioning tools.
When the right product is selected it can be imported into MagiCAD, complete with dimensions and technical data.
When you look at your MagiCAD design on the screen, what you see is what you get.
MagiCAD Ventilation
MagiCAD Ventilation contains a large selection of built-in calculation functions, such as flow summation, sizing, balancing, sound calculation and bills of materials.
MagiCAD Ventilation provides many clever and automated functions that cut down on routine work. If, for example, you change direction
while drawing a duct, MagiCAD creates the bend automatically. If you connect to a bend, the bend is automatically converted to a T-piece.
If you change dimensions, the transition piece is automatically created. If one dimension is undefined, just give the duct size and MagiCAD will create all the necessary components for sizing.
Providing clean healthy air indoors is one of the most challenging tasks in modern
buildings. Requirements on energy conservation and air quality tend to contradict
one another. MagiCAD Ventilation is well suited for handling this situation.
• Draw quickly and easily with a versatile selection of
drawing and editing functions
• Switch between wire-frame, 2D and 3D in a matter
of seconds
• Choose products from the MagiCAD product database • Dimension ducts
• Calculate pressure drops • Calculate sound levels
• Balance and display preset values/damper positions • Present the most significant flow route
• Analyse flow data
• Place text automatically or manually • Scale text quickly and easily • Create bills of materials (BOM)
• Check collision with installations and buildings • Easily create and update sections automatically • Set drawing and other presentation options for each
viewport separately
• Utilise plugins for manufacturers’ programs
• Freely define status values, for example for new and existing objects
MagiCAD Heating & Piping
MagiCAD Heating & Piping contains a number of functions that save time when you are designing the systems.
You can draw several pipes simultaneously. You have functions for connecting the radiators automatically, so you don’t need to
draw every piece of pipe yourself. Calculation functions for sizing and balancing systems are included in MagiCAD Heating & Piping. It also has a function to help you select the most suitable radiators from the manufac turers’ selection of products.
With MagiCAD Heating & Piping you can design and calculate heating, cooling, air
conditioning and water systems, as well as sewer, sprinkler and specialist systems.
• Draw quickly and easily with a versatile selection of
drawing and editing functions
• Switch between wire-frame, 2D and 3D in seconds • Design heating, cooling, water, sewer and sprinkler
systems
• Draw 1, 2 or 3 pipes simultaneously • Easy radiator selection function
• Choose products from the MagiCAD product database • Dimension pipes
• Calculate pressure drops
(even with differential pressure valves)
• Balance and display preset values/damper positions
and Kv values
• Present the most significant flow route • Analyse flow data
• Place text automatically or manually • Scale text quickly and easily • Create bills of materials (BOM)
• Check collision with installations and buildings • Easily create and update sections automatically • Set drawing and other presentation options for each
viewport separately
• Utilise plugins for manufacturers’ programs • Freely define status values, for example for new
and existing objects
MagiCAD Electrical
And of course you have access to MagiCAD’s product database containing a wide range of electrical products with correct geometries and technical data. Thanks to MagiCAD’s built-in collision control you can quickly spot if any electrical installations collide with other installations or the building itself.
Another advantage with MagiCAD Electrical is that you can easily produce bills of materials in real time for all electrical installations in the project – in a single room, for each floor or the entire building.
With MagiCAD Electrical, designing all kinds of electrical and IT systems
becomes a fast and accurate process. You can work in 2D or 3D, depending
on the project’s scope and your client’s demands.
• Draw quickly and easily in 2D or 3D
• Create and modify your own products and symbols • Choose products from the MagiCAD product database • Intelligent cables and cable packets throughout
the building
• Automatic warning when cables exceed their maximum length
• Easy and fast production of cable lists
• Intelligent handling of telecom and data connections • Select or define layer standards
• Automatic update between plan and schematic drawings • Scale text and symbols
• Create bills of materials (BOM) • Connect devices automatically
• Minimise clicks and save time with the ‘Favourites’ toolbar • Automatically search and replace e.g. existing luminaires • Create a cross-section in a few seconds, and update it
just as quickly
• Check collision with installations and buildings • Connection to lighting calculation software
MagiCAD Circuit Designer
FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS
MagiCAD Circuit Designer will enable you to work faster and have better control over the design process. You can start designing from
the logical or wiring side. Reference texts will be updated automatically thanks to the flexible intelligence of the objects.
Features and functions
• Use familiar drawing and editing functions while maintaining object intelligence
• Efficient page and object management
• Intelligent objects enable automatic reference text
updating
• Wizard functions assist in creating drawings • Wide range of standard symbols
• Capacity to create own symbols
• Automatic layout creation for used paper size • Centralised label attribute editing
MagiCAD Circuit Designer is a perfect solution for designers, electrical engineers,
contractors or switchboard manufacturers.
MagiCAD Sprinkler Designer
MagiCAD Sprinkler Designer for HVAC is a package solution for sprinkler systems
that combines MagiCAD’s drawing power with the intelligence of a built-in sprinkler
calculation engine
FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS
• Draw easier and faster and calculate your sprinkler
system at the same time
• Automatic wire-frame, 2D and 3D views
• Calculation of required system pressure based on the weakest sprinkler head
• Calculation of actual flow density for each sprinkler
head
• Weakest sprinkler head automatically identified
• Design areas can be freely defined
• Bills of materials (BOM), automatic collision control and section tools are included in the software package • Support for EN 12845, NFPA 13 and CEA 4001
standards
• All data for calculations, quality control and design approvals are available from the model
• Metric system
With MagiCAD Sprinkler Designer you can design a complete sprinkler system: Draw sprinkler pipes and components, install sprinkler heads, define the area of coverage for sprinklers and design the area for calculation. MagiCAD Sprinkler Designer’s drawing and editing functions automate most of your routine work. You can make changes in the
drawing quickly and easily, preventing the loss of object data.
With MagiCAD Sprinkler Designer, you can perform standards-compliant sprinkler system design and calculations faster, easier and with higher accuracy and quality. MagiCAD uses the metric system and supports all the relevant sprinkler standards, including EN 12845, NFPA 13 and CEA 4001.
MagiCAD Comfort & Energy
Imagine the benefits for your client to have access to data and graphs for a building’s projected annual and life-cycle costs, energy efficiency and indoor climate – every hour, all year round!
All necessary calculations are made at your own workstation – for single rooms or the entire building. It’s easy to see how different insulation and heating/cooling systems will affect long-term energy costs. Project partners are able to budget for costs well in advance.
Energy declarations for new buildings are already required in many countries. MagiCAD Comfort & Energy is a cost-effective solution for handling the production of such declarations.
MagiCAD Comfort & Energy is based on MagiCAD Room and the climate and energy simulation program Riuska, developed by Olof Granlund OY, Finland.
MagiCAD Room
MagiCAD Room is used to produce a 3D model describing the building’s geometry and design requirements for airflows and temperatures in all rooms. The data from MagiCAD Room is used as input for the climate and energy calculations in Riuska.
MagiCAD Room is included in MagiCAD Comfort & Energy. It’s also available as a separate application. It can, for example, be used as a tool for making CAD models from architectural 2D drawings. Once the model has been created, it can be used by all par ticipants in the building process – from preliminary studies and system functions to final design and maintenance.
MagiCAD Comfort & Energy makes it easy to evaluate your design’s climate
and energy performance. Early in the design process you can try out different systems
and products to find the best solution.
• Fast, accurate cooling calculations • Easy to compare design alternatives • Reliable decision support early in projects • BREEAM-approved
• Cooling calculations include accumulation of loads (thermal mass)
• Comfort and energy simulations for buildings
• Wall, window and door widths and heights can be edited
• Graphical reports for customers • No oversized devices
• Delivers all data for energy declarations • IFC import/export for both 32-bit and 64-bit
MagiCAD System Designer
FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS
MagiCAD Support & Services
The more familiar you become with MagiCAD, the faster you will reach project
targets and deliver even greater quality.
TRAINING. Over the years, thousands of MagiCAD users have attended our training sessions to learn and become even more productive. Training courses are held regularly for beginners as well as for experienced MagiCAD users. Customised company training can be arranged at request, for small or large groups. For more information about availability in your country, please contact our international support team.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES. Our experienced technical support team is happy to help you get the most out of your MagiCAD for Revit and AutoCAD
WEBINARS. MagiCAD webinars are a great way to get to know MagiCAD applications, features and benefits. You can join our webinars from any part of the world. The webinars are interactive and hosted by one of our MagiCAD professionals. Upcoming webinar dates are posted on the MagiCAD website. If you want to receive information on future webinars, just send in your email address.
SUBSCRIPTION. With a subscription your MagiCAD will always be up-to-date. A subscription makes budgeting easier. There will be no unexpected charges and it costs less than ordering basic upgrades. You are always free to choose to be a subscription customer or not.
Our support teams consist of dedicated MagiCAD experts with backgrounds and strong experience in construction and building services design.
In MagiCAD System Designer, every line and symbol is intelligent. Just click on any component to display data explaining what type of component it is.
The program is easy to use and packed with features that save a lot of time.
If, for example, you remove a valve from a pipe, the pipe mends itself automatically. You never have to re-draw and lose hours of work. Another time-saving option is that you can select an object, right click on it, choose ‘create similar’ and place
a duplicate anywhere you like on the drawing. Imagine what this will do for your productivity and peace of mind!
It’s easy to produce reports with MagiCAD System Designer. You can get complete lists of all components in the schematic design.
And if you discover that one or several products need to be changed, you just enter new properties in the report window. The drawing is updated automatically.
MagiCAD System Designer is an application for the design of functional
diagrams, rising diagrams and controlling diagrams for ventilation, piping
and electrical systems.
• Go from draft to finished diagrams in one program • Draw with intelligent lines and symbols
• Large library of predefined symbols • Easy to create own symbols • Symbols contain data
• Add, edit or delete information from the symbols • Non-destructive workflow – no lost time due to
changes
• Intelligent text tool
• Report function covers all components in the drawing
Product databases and plugins
Progman also specialises in product modelling and software development for
product selection and dimensioning.
PRODUCT MODELLING. By using Progman’s product modelling services for making digital models of their products, manufacturers give designers a better and faster way to produce accurate and reliable designs.
Every vital part of a product’s geometry is captured and turned into a 3D model. This model is then ready to be imported and used in any MagiCAD project.
What’s unique about MagiCAD is that the 3D model and its technical data are stored in MagiCAD’s product database.
Designers don’t have to look for information in manufacturer catalogues, websites or other sources – everything they need for designing and calculating the installations is available in MagiCAD.
Turning real products into digital models with dimensions and technical data is a great service for designers. They can trust the performance of their design. They can calculate the system’s performance in advance, and they know if everything fits together without collisions.
Leading manufacturers of ventilation, heating, piping, electrical and other installation products use Progman’s product modelling and database services.
MagiCAD currently contains more than one million products, making it easy for designers to find the best solution for any kind of installation.
As soon as a new product model is included in the database it’s available to every user of MagiCAD for AutoCAD or Revit free of charge.
PLUGINS. Making product selection and dimensioning tools – plugins – is another service provided by Progman. Designers use plugins to find and configure the right product for their MagiCAD projects.
For example, plugins are used to design complete air handling units (AHUs), made up of several different components.
Plugins are dynamic tools that help designers to work faster and more accurately. Designers can give dimensions, performance data or other parameters as input to the calculation. The plugin program then returns a finished model instantly. Plugins are web-based or client-based programs run from inside MagiCAD. Designers don’t need to interrupt the workflow. Once the plugin is activated, it can be reached from MagiCAD’s menu in the same way as any other function.
Plugins for MagiCAD for AutoCAD or Revit are easily downloaded from MagiCAD’s download portal.
SPECIAL APPLICATIONS. In addition to product models and plugins, Progman also provides manufacturers with special applications.
These applications are based on manufacturers’ knowledge about product details and Progman’s long-time experience in developing software for the construction industry.
Special applications include the visualisation of air throw patterns, printing and emailing quotations, bills of materials for manufacturing software, interfaces to CRM software and printout solutions.
You are welcome to contact Progman for a more in-depth presentation of our services. For contact information, please visit www.magicad.com.
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Progman Oy
Progman Oy is a software house specialising in the development of software for building services. One of our successful products is MagiCAD, a market-leading application for heating, piping, ventilation, electrical design and 3D building models. Progman also provides partners with development resources for specialised software. Our dedicated professionals are all eager to meet your needs. Please visit our website to find your nearest MagiCAD representative.
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