Ventpack is represented in the AutoCAD window by an additional toolbar (Figure 1)
and an additional menu bar - "FDBES". The application interface is similar to the
AutoCAD interface, this is why working in FDBES is easy even for beginner users of AutoCAD.
Due to it's parametric libraries, our application automates the process of drawing installations.
Using the "Continuous drawing" function, the user must only trace the installation axis on the
plane view drawing and Ventpack automatically inserts straight ducts and elbows with the required
dimensions. Ventpack supports the selection of duct cross sections by automatically calculating
air velocity, informing the designer whenever the maximum or minimum conditions are exceeded.
It performs pressure loss analysis and generates list of elements for designed installations.
The "Error report" function helps to handle errors and warnings within the project.
Ventpack allows the user to determine various parameters of the drawing and ventilation
systems at will, including drawing scale, types and default properties of ventilation
library elements (ducts, knees, T-pieces, etc.), as well as the graphic parameters of
numbering, dimensioning and information tables. All defined settings are saved in a
user profile that can be reused in later projects.
Available for everybody
Hard to believe? But how better to describe CAD software that automates the
process of drawing installations, makes available open and very detailed equipment libraries,
performs pressure loss analysis, automatically creates specification of designed elements,
and costs only 1333,- EUR (for the 2.0 version)? The increase in work efficiency covers
the purchase costs in as little as one month's time.
