 | The CATIA HVAC Design 2 (HVA) product creates and manages physical designs of HVAC systems using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The tools are focused on creating an intelligent HVAC layout that captures all appropriate design information. It provides general layout tools for placement of parts and automatic placements of components as well as the creation and management of duct lines, enabling you to create and validate your designs more productively. HVAC schematic-driven design dynamically maintains the consistency between the information in the HVA schematic and the 3D design. The captured intelligence can be reused for downstream design processes, providing further benefits to your overall business processes. Features - Enables intelligent "smart" object modeling and customization
- 2D/3D integration
- Specification-driven HVAC parts creation and function-driven HVAC parts placements
- Integrated dynamic rule triggering
- Design Layout Evolution
Key customer benefits - Intelligent "Smart" object modeling and customization
CATIA HVAC Design 2 (HVA) provides a base object model that can implement basic HVAC network behaviors, relationships and attributes. In addition, it allows you to customize the object model by providing the ability to define sub-classes and add attributes.
- User-defined ID rules for objects
You can define ID rules to specify your company-specific naming formats and conventions by object type.
- 2D/3D Integration
This capability optimizes the design process by providing the ability to propagate and streamline the data from the functional diagram to the 3D detailed design. Additionally, it integrates the two design stages and ensures that the design intent is captured at the detail design phase. You can also access HVAC duct lines and parts for 3D detail design. HVAC schematic-driven design dynamically maintains the consistency between the HVAC schematic information and the 3D design.
- Duct line creation and management
You can create HVAC duct lines with standard industry attribute information. In addition, you can create your own attributes. Once a HVAC duct line defined, it can be shared across multiple design documents. CATIA HVAC Design 2 (HVA) provides the ability to intelligently manage the entire membership of a duct line regardless of the fact that duct components might be added or removed during the design process.
- Duct line layout route definition
CATIA HVAC Design 2 provides easy-to-use routing tools that allow you to define a space claim early in the preliminary design stage. This capability enables you to perform early interference detection and to uncover space contention early on. The routing tools are integrated with the spatial definitions allowing you to easily route one or more duct lines inside a pathway. Associativity is maintained so that if a pathway is modified the duct line will be adjusted automatically. The routing facility provides you with multiple routing modes including orthogonal, point-to-point, directional and slope.
- Design layout evolution
Preliminary layouts can be evolved to detailed designs using standard HVAC parts and specification catalogs.
- Specification-driven HVAC part creation
You can create parts from the catalog using specifications that are defined for a certain project to meet a specific context such as, temperature, pressure, or airflow requirements.
- Function-driven HVAC parts placement
You can capture the design intent for selected physical parts to ensure that modification scenarios are possible. You can layout and model a 3D HVAC network. If parts are based on user-defined rules, such as branching or turning rules, much of the layout can be created automatically to optimize the total design process. Parts placement orients the selected part based on the defined compatibility rules, ensuring that the proper design is achieved. In addition, connectivity is maintained automatically.
- Intelligent modification of HVAC objects and routes
You can revise layouts and change route segments and nodes using offset and clearance capabilities. HVAC parts and routes can be manipulated directly by pushing and stretching points, segments, and extremities. HVAC part modifications propagate changes that will impact the design intent. For example, a size change will automatically force part re-sizing and placement. Similarly, a specification change will force a new part selection and placement. Connectivity is managed automatically throughout the entire modification process.
- Integrated dynamic rule triggering
During the preliminary and detailed design process, rule-based design checking actions are automatically launched to validate the proposed design to confirm connectivity and compatibility.
- Query and analysis of HVAC parts and configurations
Key properties are readily available at element pre-highlight. You can perform a wide variety of queries and/or analysis to inquire about the specific properties of any object in the design document. Through a network analysis tool, you can also query and analyze duct line connectivity.
- Powerful setup tools
Built-in setup tools allow you to customize corporate data and define rules that will enforce company standards such as, defining HVAC specifications, standard parametric parts catalogs, design rules, and other setup data.
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