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Building Information Modeling
 Design and construction documentation of air-handling and piping/plumbing systems
- Comprehensive and dedicated tools for all types of components
- Work in plan, elevation, isometric, or perspective view with the same tools
- Automatic placement of connectors
- Automatic hook-up of diffusers and other components
- Attributes and properties significant for design, analysis, fabrication, construction, and operations
- Duct and pipe insulation in 2D and/or 3D
- Apply and change slope to partial or complete systems
- Extensive analyze route tools to apply ID, check system integrity, apply air and flow rates, and trace system paths
- Multiple filtering options: by level, by symbology, by attribute, by selection set and more
- Floor management tool for placing systems in relation to floor reference planes
Parametric Component Design
 Parametric, dimension-driven creation and modification of mechanical and plumbing components
- Access to component product manufacturers with all part numbers and performance data for bills of material and analysis
- Creation of custom components with VBA scripts and XML
Ease of Use
- AccuDraw functionality to place components accurately
- Storage of ‘most recently used’ input
Customizable interface and workspaces to suit user design workflow
- Control type of automatically placed components
- Automatic hook-up of both single or multiple components, re-healing and resizing of systems
- Connectivity intelligence for re-sizing, joining and re-healing of mechanical elements for rapid design changes
- Global edits to entire systems
- Calculation tools for accurate sizing based on pressure drop, velocity, etc.
Coordinated Construction Documentation
 Rule-based creation of plans, sections, and elevations
- Creation of coordinated mechanical plans, sections, and elevations
- Automatic re-symbolization of 3D components to 2D representations
- User-definable annotation and labeling
- Material takeoffs, equipment and component schedules, and other reports
- Variation checks
- Enforcement of national, corporate, and project standards
- Compatibility with office automation tools for further processing and formatting
- Creation of Adobe PDF documents directly from Bentley Building Mechanical Systems with embedded 3D navigational models
International and Custom Standards Support
- Create, manage, verify, and enforce company and project standards
- Support for the U.S. and other country-specific component libraries
- Support of DGN, DWG, DXF, PDF, STEP, IGES, IFC, and other major industry standards
Interoperability with Building Design, Engineering, Analysis, and Fabrication
- Fully integrated with Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structural, Bentley Building Electrical Systems, and more
- A shared multi-disciplinary model for team collaboration and coordination
- Wall attribute checking to determine fire damper requirements
- Analytical preprocessor
- GBXML interface (beta)
- Interface with CAMDUCT (from model to plasma cutter without paper drawings)
- Review and management of interferences across multiple files and disciplines in conjunction with Bentley Interference Manager
- Simulation of construction schedules in conjunction with Bentley Navigator and project management applications, such as Microsoft® Project or Primavera® P3
Integration with Management Environment
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