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You use these precision templates to produce HVAC designs and drawings according to accepted industry standards.

  • HVAC (Imperial)—This template has imperial units in feet and inches, ANSI and Architectural sheet sizes and borders, and Architectural fill styles. It provides symbols based on ASHRAE and ISO standards for residential and commercial designs.

  • HVAC (Metric)—This template has metric units in meters and centimeters, ISO standard Architectural sheet sizes and borders, and Architectural fill styles. It provides symbols based on ASHRAE and ISO standards for residential and commercial designs.

  • The ANSI, DIN, BSI, ISO, and JIS dimensioning standards are also available in these templates. When you open these templates, the Draw toolbar appears, containing tools to help you create precision drawings.

Production Drafting Workflow for Double Line Duct Layout

You can produce full sets of production drawings according to the AIA standards.

To produce a fairly complex production drawing, you should set Maintain Relationships off.

  1. Set up the sheet - Select an appropriate sheet size and scale that allow you to draw the design. The default scale is 1/4" = 1', which is appropriate for the average plan on a D-Size sheet.

  2. Reference a floor plan or open one - Reference a floor plan by using the Object command on the Insert menu or by dragging and dropping in the reference file. Or click File on the Open menu to open (translate) the file.

  3. Place duct symbols - Using the Symbol Explorer, select the Double Line Duct folder from the HVAC folder in the tree view. Drag the duct symbols over the reference file, connecting one to another. Use the bold parameters that appear in the Attribute Viewer to change the size of the duct.

    • You can use two methods to place multiple copies of the same symbol:

    • Holding down the right mouse button, drag the symbol into the template. When you release the right mouse button to place the symbol, you are prompted with two options. Click Stamp Here, and use the left mouse button to place multiple copies of the symbol.

    • Press Ctrl as you drag in a symbol with the left mouse button. Place the first instance of the symbol while holding down Ctrl. Once you have placed the first symbol, you can release Ctrl and use the left mouse button to place multiple copies of the symbol.

  4. Annotate the drawing - Use text and dimensioning commands to annotate the drawing. Text is entered in paper units regardless of the sheet scale. To label double line ducts, use the labels that automatically appear on symbols when you double-click them.

  5. Select a border or create one -The HVAC templates are delivered with ten border sizes. Select the borders with Sheet Setup on the File menu so that they appear in the current design. On the Background tab, select the background sheet to display with the working sheet. Use Select Tool to position the graphics appropriately in the border.

    The borders were designed from guidelines from the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).

The following symbol sets aid in production drafting.

Content

Description

HVAC (Intergraph)

HVAC symbols designed to best fit Double Line Duct and Single Line Duct Layout workflows. Several of these symbols are designed with special behaviors and parametric properties.

HVAC (ASHRAE)

HVAC symbols designed to ASHRAE standards.

To use this functionality, you must install the AEC Solutions option.

See Also

Drawing Basic Elements
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