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MEP - Duct Hanger / Support

Softskil Consultants
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Dear User / Developer,

 

How I can add support / suspended hanger to hold HVAC - duct in 3D ?

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Laszlo Nagy
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That looks like a lot of polygons (especially the geometry of those springs) when you place a couple of dozen or hundred of those highly detailed hangers into your model.

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here are more than 1,000 of them.  I don't notice any slow down at all.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hG-wmp_ke0    But that it no the point.  The point is that you can use any sort of model or symbol you want.  Perhaps use a model for one, and the rest can be 2d symbols/object.  Because there is often a lot of information for hangars - seismic calcs, engineering, manufactures info, sizes, rod lengths.... I like to hyper link all of that information in the .pdf rather than in the Archicad file.   The only reason I can think of for using the GRAPHISOFT MEP Modeler is for AS-BUILTS or to try and compensate for HVAC designers that are not using 3D software.  And when this is the case, the GRAPHISOFT MEP model is really just for the sake of spatial coordination, which means the level of detail is not very important.  When it is important, and need to function with performance analysis modeling the MEP systems, Fire Sprinklers and such is done better with other software.  There are even special programs for just the hangars.  What you need in Archicad is just a reference or link that will open those documents or be displayed in an Interactive Schedule.    MEP Software | Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Software (trimble.com)

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@Steve Jepson wrote:

here are more than 1,000 of them.  I don't notice any slow down at all.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hG-wmp_ke0    But that it no the point.  The point is that you can use any sort of model or symbol you want.  Perhaps use a model for one, and the rest can be 2d symbols/object.  Because there is often a lot of information for hangars - seismic calcs, engineering, manufactures info, sizes, rod lengths.... I like to hyper link all of that information in the .pdf rather than in the Archicad file.   The only reason I can think of for using the GRAPHISOFT MEP Modeler is for AS-BUILTS or to try and compensate for HVAC designers that are not using 3D software.  And when this is the case, the GRAPHISOFT MEP model is really just for the sake of spatial coordination, which means the level of detail is not very important.  When it is important, and need to function with performance analysis modeling the MEP systems, Fire Sprinklers and such is done better with other software.  There are even special programs for just the hangars.  What you need in Archicad is just a reference or link that will open those documents or be displayed in an Interactive Schedule.    MEP Software | Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Software (trimble.com) 


These 1000 are awesome I also don't notice any slow down at all.

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