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Heating and Cooling Gallery

Used to place parametric heating and cooling equipment.

Accessed from the Equipment ribbon:
The following gallery displays which can be left floating or docked to the drawing area.
The following table shows the component options in the gallery along with the key in syntax. Selecting a tool from one of the placement galleries activates the Place Component dialog. The generic placement settings, along with the unique set of dimensional and data properties provide the core workflow used to accurately position equipment components in the model.
Component <component class> in Placement Key In syntax (Mechaddin PLACE <component class> dsc=Piping)
Electric Boiler ELECTRIC_BOILER
Fired Boiler FIRED_BOILER
Watertube Boiler WATERTUBE_BOILER
AirCooled Chiller AIRCOOLED_CHILLER
Evaporative Chiller EVAPORATIVE_CHILLER
WaterCooled Chiller WATERCOOLED_CHILLER
Cooling Tower COOLING_TOWER
Condenser SURFACE_CONDENSER

Placement Basics

When placing a heating or cooling component, the user defines geometrical dimensions and property values in Placement dialog before picking the placement point and rotation.