3d riser user manual

Tyco Fire & Building Products

SprinkCAD 3D Riser Instruction Pamphlet

July 28, 2008

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July 2008 SprinkCAD 3D Riser Instruction Pamphlet 2

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................4

TRACING LINES .......................................................................................................................................4

INSERTING VALVES ...............................................................................................................................7

ROTATING THE VALVES ..................................................................................................................... 12

INSERTING FITTINGS .......................................................................................................................... 13

ADDING PIPES MANUALLY ................................................................................................................ 20

ADDING COUPLINGS ............................................................................................................................ 26

CREATING WELDED PIPES ................................................................................................................ 29

EDITING THE RISER ............................................................................................................................. 30

NUMBERING RISER ITEMS ................................................................................................................. 32

ADDING ITEM NUMBERS AND A SPECIFICATION ...................................................................... 33

DIMENSIONING THE RISER ............................................................................................................... 37

RENDERING THE 3D RISER ................................................................................................................ 39

PLOTTING THE 3D RISER ................................................................................................................... 40

CREATING A STOCKLIST FILE ......................................................................................................... 42

RUNNING AUTOMATIC RISER BUILDER ....................................................................................... 42

CONTACTING TYCO FIRE & BUILDING PRODUCTS .................................................................. 44

SprinkCAD 3D Riser Instruction Pamphlet July 2008

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Introduction 3D Riser is a new software enhancement for SprinkCAD. With it you will be able to produce detailed system risers in three dimensions. The 3D Riser tools allow you to build pipe, valve and fitting arrangements with a few simple commands. 3D Riser also includes commands for annotating the drawing and automatically preparing a Specification Table to list all of your items. You can export a stocklist file in the SprinkSLIC format with a click of the mouse. Tracing Lines Before working with the 3D Riser tools, you must draw center lines for your pipe locations. These are inserted with conventional AutoCAD commands. The example that follows shows one method for drawing the lines but you can use whatever method you choose to insert these lines in 3D space. For example, start a new SprinkCAD drawing and Save As.. to a filename such as 3DRiser.dwg. Switch to the SW Isometric view with the View toolbar.

Switch to the SPK_3D_RISER layer. If it doesn’t exist, create it and make it Current. You can use any layer as long as it isn’t a sensitive layer for SprinkCAD. For now, you will use the SPK_3D_RISER layer. Make sure that Ortho is on. Start the Line command and pick a point somewhere in the drawing area. Move the mouse upward and enter 2’ at the command line.

Move the mouse to the left and enter 62.25” at the command line.


Move the mouse upward and enter 4’ at the command line.

Move the mouse upward again and enter 6’.

Move the mouse to the right and enter 2’. Press Esc to end the command.

Start the Line command again. With the End Osnap, pick the line break 4’-0” from the bottom elbow as the start point. Move the mouse to the left and enter 3’.


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Move the mouse downward and enter 10”.

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Move the mouse to the left and enter 2’. Press Esc to endthe command.

You should now have what is shown here. If you have a very complicated riser you may want to divide it into sections. Each section can have its own layer ftracing lines, fittings, valves, pipes andcouplings. In this way, each section can be processed individually.

Inserting Valves Right click over any SprinkCAD toolbar and select 3D Riser to open the toolbar.

You can also start the 3D Riser commands from the pull down menu. The choice is yours. Do not press the Esc keyboard key when using the 3D Fitting commands. It is preferrable to use Enter to end commands. Start the Insert single 3D fitting or valve command. The command line will respond with Please select the tracing line close to insertion point or (Settings/ <ENTER to End) : Enter S at the command line to set up the fitting. The Select Fitting or Valve dialog box will appear.


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Check the Use Tracing box and press the Pick button. Pick any of the tracing lines in the drawing area. You will return to the dailog box with the Layer Name field updated. This option will insert fittings on the tracing lines only. Select Valve from the drop down list at the top and 6 for the Outlet 1 Size. The list will be filtered so that only 6” valves are displayed. Select the 6” SE Model 3000 SS Double Check Backflow Assembly w/OS&Y and press Ok. Pick the horizontal line close to the first elbow ashown. You will be prompted to enter the distance from the end of the pipe. Enter 8”.

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The backflow valve will appear.

You will be prompted with: Do you wish to keep this orientation or No? <Yes>: Right Click to accep the current direction.

If you want to flip the valve end for end you would enter n. We will assume that the valve direction is correct. Note, you can also position the valve with a mouse pick or by picking the Node Osnap of an existing valve or fitting. For example, if you wanted to place more than one valve, back to back, insert the first valve and use the node of the first valve to insert the second. All valves and fittings have nodes at their outlets. Enter s to change the Settings again.

The Select Fitting or Valve dialog box will appear again.

Set the 6 size for Outlet 1. Select the 6” AV-1 FxG Vertical/Horizontal Alarm Valve 300 psi and press Ok.


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Pick the vertical line beyond the backflow close to the bottom elbow. You will be prompted to enter the distance from the end of the pipe. Enter 2’. The Alarm valve will appear. You will be prompted with: Do you wish to keep this orientation or No? <Yes>: Right Click to keep the current orientation since the flange is facing down. Enter s to change the Settings again. Set the Outlet 1 size to 4 and select the 4” Grooved Check Valve 590F and press Ok.


Pick the horizontal branch above the Alarm valve as shown. You will be prompted to enter the distance from the end of the pipe. Enter 7.375”. This will place the valve next to the outlet. You will be prompted with: Do you wish to keep this orientation or No? <Yes>: Right Click to keep the current orientation since the Check Valve direction arrow is pointing toward the system.


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Rotating the Valves You can easily rotate the valves to their correct position. Select Rotate Fitting from the 3D Riser toolbar. Pick the backflow and it will rotate 90 degrees for each pick. Pick until the backflow gate valve stems are facing upward. The command will continue. Pick the alarm valve until the inspection cover faces to the right. Pick the check valve until the inspection cover faces upward. Right Click when finished.


Inserting Fittings The valves are now finished, you can start inserting fittings. Select Insert single 3D fitting or valve from the 3D Riser toolbar. Enter s to change the Settings.

Set the Fitting Type to 90 Elbow and the Outlet 1 Size to 6. Select the 6” Cast Iron Flanged Elbow and press Ok.


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Pick the first elbow with the End Osnap. You will be prompted with: Do you wish to keep this orientation or No? <Yes>: Right Click to keep the current orientation. Recall that the backflow was inserted 8” from the end of the line. This is the takeout for the flanged elbow which is connected directly to the backflow.


The flanged elbow will remain selected until it is changed. With the End Osnap, select the elbow at the end of the backflow. Right Click to keep the current orientation.


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Enter s to change the Settings.

Select Welded Tee Outlet from the drop down list. Select the 6” x 4” Groove-O-Let and press Ok. Insert it at the tee above the Alarm valve with the End Osnap. Enter s to change the Settings.



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The Select Fitting or Valve dialog box will appear.

Select 90 Elbow from the drop down list. Select the Grv 90° #510 6” grooved elbow and press Ok.

Insert it at the top of the riser.

Enter s to change theSettings again.



Select 90 Elbow from the drop down list and 4 for the Outlet 1 Size. Select the Grv 90° #510 4” grooved elbow and press Ok.

Place two elbows back to back as shown. Enter s to change the Settings again.


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Select End Cap from the drop down list and 4” Fire Dept Connection. Press Ok. Place it at the end of the FDC pipe.

Right Click to end the command.

Adding Pipes Manually Press the Insert Single 3D Pipe button on the toolbar. Enter S at the command line to change the settings. The Pipe Attributes dialog box will open. The # is the item number for the Specification table. Leave the default at 1. You can enter a part number in the Part field. This will become a property of the pipe which can be carried over to an exported stocklist file. Select a Size of 6, a Schedule of 10 and a Finish of Black. The Start and End preparations will be F or Flanged. The Starting and Ending Flanges will be 6” x 11” Companion Flanges. The Min.Length value is the shortest pipe length that the program will insert. Leave the default at 0’-4”. Press OK.



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For the first pick, select the Node of the first flanged elbow.

For the second pick, select the Endpoint of the pipe.

The pipe is inserted.

With the same settings, insert a pipe between the second flanged elbow and the bottom of the Alarm valve. Use Nodes for picks. Enter s to change the Settings. Change the end preps to Gm for grooved male. Press Ok.


Place the first pipe between the top of the Alarm valve and the outlet at the FDC tee. Use the Nodes for picks.

Place the second pipe from the outlet Node to the Node on the top elbow. Place the third pipe from the top elbow Node to the end of the tracing line with the End Osnap. Enter s to change the Settings.


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The Pipe Attributes dialog box will open. Change the pipe size to 4 and press Ok. Insert a pipe from the Node on the check valve to the Node on the first 90 Elbow. Enter s to change the Settings.


The Pipe Attributes dialog box will open. Change the Schedule to 40 and press Ok. Insert the pipe from the Node of the second 90 Elbow to the FDC hose connection. This completes the pipes. Right Click to end the command.


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Adding Couplings You can now add couplings for the grooved fittings and pipes. Select Insert grooved coupling from the 3D Riser toolbar. Enter s to change the Settings. Set the Outlet 1 Size to 6 and select the Grv Cplg #572 Rigid w/A gskt 6”. Press Ok. Right Click to start.

Pick the Alarm valve and the 90 Elbow at the top and Right Click. Three couplings will be inserted; two on the 90 Elbow and one on the Alarm valve.



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Start the command again and enter s to change the Settings. Set the Outlet 1 Size to 4 and sthe Grv Cplg #572 Rigid w/A gs4”.

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Press Ok. Right Click to start. Select the check valve and the two 90 Elbows on the FDC and Right Click. Five couplings are inserted.

Use the Rotate Fitting command to rotate the couplings so that the bolts and nuts are oriented correctly.


Creating Welded Pipes You will have to break your pipes in the locations where you place mechanical tees and welded outlets. The Specification table will list these pipes as individual pieces and the lengths will equal the distances between the fittings. To avoid this, insert the outlets and pipes as normal and use the Create welded pipes command. Select the pipes where the outlets are inserted. When the Specification table is inserted, the pipe will be listed as a single pipe with a length that is the sum of the distances between the fittings. In this example, the riser pipe has a welded outlet for the Fire Department Connection. Start the Create welded pipes command. Pick the 6” pipe above and below the outlet to the FDC. It is currently two pipes. Right Click and the pipes will be joined. It will now appear as one piece in the Specification table.


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Editing the Riser The 3D Riser toolbar includes the commands Delete Pipes, Delete Fittings, Erase End of Pipe and Delete 3D Riser Items. These commands will filter the desired item and ignore the rest for deletion. Start a command, select the items and Right Click to delete. Delete 3D Riser Items will select all items. The purpose of these commands is to assist you when selecting items for deletion; especially when the workspace is crowded. This does limit you to these commands for deleting objects. You are free to use conventional AutoCAD commands to remove items. For example, let’s assume that you want to put a flow switch above the FDC outlet. Start the Delete pipe command and pick the pipe above and below the FDC outlet. Right Click and the pipe will be deleted. Fittings such as the flow switch can only be inserted at a pipe break or pipe end. Enter break at the command line and Right Click. Pick the tracing line approximately 2’-0above the FDC outlet as shown.

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tart the Insert single 3D fitting or valve command.

nter s to change the Settings.

The command line will prompt with: Specify second break point or (First point): Enter @ and press Enter. This will break the line at the first point s S E


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elect Valve from the drop down list and 6 as the Outlet 1 Size. Select the Flow Switch

lace it a zero distance from your break point and

tart the Insert single 3D pipe command and insert 6”,

SPotElect VSR-F 6” and press Ok. PRotate it to the position shown. SSchedule 10, grooved pipes between the Alarm and FDC outlet, the outlet and the flow switch and the flow switch to the 90 Elbow at the top.


Use Nodes for picks. Right Click to exit the command.

se the Create welded pipes command to join the three pipes.

ecall that, when you were inserting 3D riser objects, you had the opportunity to specify the

ress the Autonumber button from the 3D Riser toolbar to start the command. The program

lso, items that are the same will be given the same Item Number. For example, all 4” Grooved 90 Elbows will have the same number.

U Numbering Riser Items RItem Number. You can manually insert Item Numbers if you like however, the Autonumber command will add and sort the numbers for you automatically. Pwill assign all items in the riser with a unique number. A


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Adding Item Numbers and a Specification Switch to the Front view. You can use the View toolbar or the View > 3D Views >Front pull own menu.

oom in on your riser. Select Insert Item Number from the 3D Riser toolbar.

hen prompted to select objects, select the entire riser with a window. Right Click. The figure elow shows the annotations added. Some annotations have been removed to avoid clutter.

he annotations and leaders an be moved with grips.

en from the current utoCAD Dimension Style.

d Z Wb Tc The text and arrow formats are takA You can pick individual items if desired.


To create a material list, select the Specification command from the 3D toolbar.

ou will be prompted to pick the upper left corner of the table. Pick a point to the right of the ser.

he table will be inserted in the XY plane of the World UCS. You may have to Rotate the table match the plane that your riser appears in. The table will list all items in the riser. The Item umber appears in the left column, the description in the middle column and the quantity in the

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TtoNright column. The cut lengths of the pipes are calculated automatically. The text and table formats are taken from the current AutoCAD Dimension Style. Now, you can save the view for use in the plot layout. Select Named Views from the View toolbar or menu.


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The View Manager dialog box will appear.

ress the New utton.

he New View dialog box will ppear.

notation.

radio

e and the Specification

ble.

Pb Ta Enter a View Name of Riser_An Pick the Define window button. Pick a window tightly around th3D Riserta Press OK to exit.


You will return to the View Manager dialog box.

he Riser_Annotation view now appears in the Views list. A thumbnail view appears in the lower ght corner. Press OK to exit.

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Dimensioning the Riser and make it current. Turn the SPK-3D-SPECS and the Annotations and the Specification table.

he Y Axis should be pointing upward and the X Axis to the right.

pen the UCS toolbar.

From the UCS toolbar, select Origin and pick any node in the FDC. With this setup, the dimension lines will corr ctly line up with the FDC items in 3D space.

Use e fittings and valves.

ere is an example with dimensions.

ow, Save this view to a Named View as you did

Switch to the Right view to dimension the rest of the riser.

Create a new layer called DimensionsSPK-3D-ITEM layers off. This will hide Press the Front button and verify that the UCS icon appears as shown here.

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Select Linear from the Dimension toolbar and dimension the FDC. the Node Osnap for easy picks to the ends of th

H Nfor the Riser annotations. Call it FDC_Dimensions.


Use the Origin command and pick a node on the riser to move the UCS to the correct position.

Select Linear from the Dimension toolbar and dimension the rest of the riser. Use the Node Osnap for picks to the ends of the fittings and valves.

ere is an example with imensions.

Named id for the Riser

nnotations.

Hd Now, Save this view to a View as you da Call it Riser_Dimensions.


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Rendering the 3D Riser itch to the SW Isometric view.

elect Realistic Visual Style from the Visual Styles toolbar.

you do not have this Style with your AutoCAD version, any

ow, Save this view to a Named View as you did for the Riser annotations.

all it Riser_Rendered.

Turn the Dimensions layer off and sw S Ifrendering style will do such as Flat Shaded. N C


Plotting the 3D Riser area of

e AutoCAD screen. Delete any existing

ort from the View > iewports pull down menu.

ith a window the lower right corner of the plotting

click inside the new viewport. The order will become thicker indicating that

ull own menu.

ager dialog box will appear.

elect the Riser_Annotation view from the left list and press Set Current. Press OK to exit. he annotation view will now appear in the viewport.

Select any Layout tab in the lowerthviewports. Set current layer to SPK-VPORT. Select 1 ViewpV Define the viewport border winarea. Doublebit has switched to Model space. Select Named Views from the View pd The View Man ST


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Do the same for the other three views that you created.

Double click outside of the current viewport to exit model space.

ou can then pick a viewport border and right click to open the Properties palette.

ick the Standard scale field to set the

nd plans.

Y Pdrawing scale if required. You can use this technique to add riser aother details to your piping


Creating A Stocklist File Riser toolbar to create a stocklist file.

he file will be in the SprinkSLIC format. It will be placed in the same folder as your drawing and ave the same filename as the drawing. The extension will be TYL.

artial Listing will only export items from specified layers to a SprinkSLIC file. For example, if ou only want to list a portion of the riser, change the items layer and identify it with this ommand.

as you did before, or add them nd. This command will add default fittings,

ouplings and pipes to existing tracing lines.

tart the command with the Automatic Riser Builder button on the 3D Riser toolbar.

he Riser Builder dialog box ill appear.

Each riser item is numbered. The item and its corresponding number will appear in a Specification table that can be inserted. You can enter the starting number in the Start Number ell.

Press the Stocklist button from the 3D Th Pyc Running Automatic Riser Builder You can insert valves, fittings and couplings manuallyautomatically with the Automatic Riser Builder commac S

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Generally, you would leave the default at 1. If you have a very complicated riser, you may want to break it up into sections. For example, the first section numbers could start at 100, the econd at 200, and so on.

ing SER layer. You can use the Pick button to pick an item that is in the

acing layer.

Grooved, Threaded and Flanged.

es the type of fitting that will be inserted hen SprinkCAD encounters the end of a pipe. The Min.Length value is the shortest pipe

e command and then make small changes to

omplete the assembly.

he program will insert 90 elbows where o trace lines intersect and tees where ree trace lines intersect. Couplings will

en the tically added.

he other pipes and couplings will have

s Enter the layer of your tracing lines in the Tracing in Layer field. In this example, the traclines are in the SPK_3D_RItr In the Riser Parameters area, enter the Size and Design of the fittings to be inserted. Design options include In the Pipe Parameters area, enter the Schedule and Finish of the pipes to be inserted. The default end of pipe fitting is No Fitting. This specifiwlength that the program will insert. Set it at 0’-6”. Select whether you want to insert Fittings, Piping or both with the checkboxes in the Insertarea. Generally, you would select both, execute thc Press OK to execute. Ttwthbe added to the fittings that were automatically inserted. The program will add pipes betwefittings that were automaTto be added manually.


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