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Coolpack
an application for designing chilled water systems and technological heating for
ventilation and air conditioning. It can also be used for designing heating systems,
since it also includes all libraries of FDBES - Heatpack. Piping in Coolpack is
drawn by tracing out the installation point by point after having selected technology,
size (diameter) and elevation settings. Coolpack automatically inserts piping elements
such as elbows, reducers, tees and crosses using the default libraries.
The program features "open" libraries of pipes and cooling / heating media,
so that the user may easily specify custom parameters for each technology,
which can then be saved to file. Coils, chillers, radiators, pumps etc.
are inserted from libraries into the drawing as AutoCAD blocks. It is possible
to define cooling / heating power separately for each hour on terminal units (e.g. fancoils).
Based on the cooling / heating power specified for terminal units and on the
temperatures given for the cooling / heating fluid in the supply and return pipelines,
the program performs flow quantity calculations. As all information is available
regarding flow quantity and geometry of the installation, the software performs
the required hydraulic calculations, determines the appropriate adjustments for
balancing valves and calculates the authority of regulating valves. Coolpack allows
the user to determine drawing scale, default parameters of element libraries,
as well as the graphic properties of elements, numbering and information tables.
All defined settings are saved in a user profile that can be reused in later projects.
Coolpack can also create development views of the entire installation dynamically
based on the floor plan view(s). The installation may be represented in full
geometry or in schematic view, where piping is shown by single lines. The list
of elements as well as the pressure drop report may easily be export to an MS
Excel worksheet or to .txt file for convenient printing.
Available for everybody
Hard to believe? But how better to describe CAD software that automates the
process of drawing chilled water and technological heating installations as
well as heating systems, provides available open and very detailed libraries
of equipment, accessories, piping and coolants, performs pressure loss analysis,
automatically creates specification of the designed installation, gives detailed
reports of pressure conditions, and its price is only 443 EUR (for full AutoCAD version)?
The simplicity of 2D with advantages of 3D
Yes, it is possible. Even though Coolpack operates in 2D, some of its functionality
is extended to 3D. Coolpack does have considerable 3D drafting functionality as
it keeps track of the elevation for each element. While placing stand-alone elements
(chillers, boilers and terminal units), the user must specify the distance to the floor.
For the piping elements that follow, the program assigns elevation automatically.
Thus, the program is able to make cross sections and system schemes (plane,
one-line representation developments of the installation). Modifications made in
the cross section view of the installation is updated in the plane view drawing.
The result is that drawing files are kept relatively small, so standard hardware
available in practically every design office is sufficient to run the program.
Designing is simplified so much, that a person having just basic knowledge of
AutoCAD needs only 2 to 4 hours to start working with the program - yet another
reason to select Coolpack. The Coolpack Help leads the user through each designing
step and helps become familiar with all commands. It is available from each dialog box:
pressing the "Help" button will open it on the page describing the active window.
Equipment libraries without limitations.
It is true - with Coolpack, you can draw any element required for your installation
owing to the unusually rich general libraries (without determining manufacturer).
All piping technologies are displayed in tables where the user may modify pipe
parameters and then save them to a *.tsv file that can be used in later projects.
If you cannot find a specific element that you require, you can still define this
element as a "nonstandard element", with the full functionality of regular
elements selected from the libraries. When executing a working project,
you have another possibility - libraries of manufacturers, where each element
has predefined type, name and range of sizes, accessories etc..
The program also stores precise geometry for these
elements, inserted into the drawing as AutoCAD blocks, thus significantly
accelerating the speed of drawing. Main installation units are joined by piping
drawn in a way similar to AutoCAD polylines, only with adjustable elevation,
technology and size (diameter) settings. Coolpack automatically inserts piping
elements such as elbows, reducers, tees and crosses, displaying the proper
pipeline geometry.
New dimension to manufacturers CAD libraries
Coolpack enables manufacturers of equipment and accessories to provide designers
access to their own element libraries, having unlimited possibilities for description
details: all options, accessories, dimensional range and hydraulic characteristics
can be specified. This means real CAD designing without the use of any "paper"
catalogue sheets or searching through CD-ROMs. Coolpack guarantees complete service
for every manufacturer, enabling automatic updating of their libraries for users
of the program.
Coolpack makes the material specification instead of you
No more messy numbering, dimensioning and preparing material specifications!
Coolpack performs these operations automatically in no time, so you can concentrate
on solving engineering issues. You should also not be afraid to make changes in
basic design even during the stage of generating documentation, because all material
specifications are updated dynamically, changes made on the drawing are always
reflected in the generated documentation. The "List of elements" is displayed in
a table that may be easily exported to an *.xls or *.txt file.
Pressure loss analysis
Coolpack calculates medium flows based on the plane view drawing of the installation,
on which the following parameters are specified: cooling / heating power of terminal units,
the temperature of cooling / heating fluids in both the supply and return pipelines
and the medium type. It is also possible to define cooling / heating power separately
for each hour on terminal units, thus better optimizing selection of the chiller and of pipe
diameters. All input data is provided through the specified power values and by
the drawn geometry of the installation. Coolpack calculates pressure drop values
and automatically determines the appropriate adjustments for balancing valves.
When placing control valves, Coolpack selects the first available Kvs setting
that results in the closest possible match to the valve authority desired by the designer.
Finally, the program verifies each system, checking piping connections and ensuring proper
implementation of the selected hydraulic regulation solution. Having finished designing
the installation, you will receive the required pump head as well as the flow and
pressure drop values in each branch. The program will also compile a report based
on the pressure loss calculations that can be exported to *.xls or *.txt file and
attached to the documentation.
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