OpenBuildings™ Designer Help

Placing Routes

Duct and Pipe serve primary components of a route. As you lay routes, the HAVC and plumbing accessory fittings get placed automatically at bends, branches and joints of route segments. As required, you can place inline devices and equipment at connect points on the route being designed. The place tool also provides an option of routing in a single line mode, that can be later promoted to 3D. A duct in a route is normally routed in a horizontal plane. Routing in different planes needs to be done carefully. The Autofitting property and AccuDraw Compass facilitate to branching the route in a perpendicular direction.