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Cymap - Creating Floor Plans
By Ashley Rice
Use Cymap to quickly create your floorplan layout and dimensions within Cymap Quick Plan.
Open Cymap a...
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Cymap. Modelling Reverse Returns
by Gary Mann
The Reverse Return arrangement is useful in Services Layouts. It is used for connecting modular componen...
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Cymap Wiring – Final Board Ways - New Display Options
By David Wren
In Final Circuit mode, the Display Options dialog for the Way’s details has been improved. Previously, ...
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Cymap – Release notes now also available in the Cymap front screen’s Help Page.
by David Wren
After installing and running the new Update 1 of Cymap 2020, if you want to revisit the Release Notes t...
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Cymap Electrical Discrimination Issues
by Simon Brown
A lot of users out there seem to be struggling with discrimination issues that arise for various rea...
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Cymap - example using remote linear workflow
By Ashley Rice
Cymap has been utilising a cloud licensing system since the 2019 release, and in current times this is...
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Cymap - Calculate natural ventilation infiltration rate
By Ashley Rice
Within the room profiles, the user can calculate the infiltration rate in ac/h by using the Infiltrati...
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Cymap Wiring – How to Set a Maximum Operational Temperature for Cables
By David Wren
A question that is often asked is “If I have a mixture of 70°C PVC and 90°C LSF/XLPE cables in the same...
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Cymap - Changing the default auto-connect distance
By Ashley Rice
Within Cymap you can auto-connect outlets, emitters and grills to sections of pipework or ductwork wit...
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Cymap - Break a Leg!
By Gary Mann
In Cymap Mechanical Programs, once a pipe or duct has been placed, editing of the pipe position is limit...
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Cymap - Piping - All Dimensions in mm
By Gary Mann
Most construction drawings have the note “All Dimensions in mm” located somewhere on the drawing. Within...
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Cymap - Autoplace Radiators
By Gary Mann
One of my favourite features in Piping is the Autoplace Radiators. This is available from the Piping Pro...
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Cymap - Changing the MCW inlet location on an existing system
By Ashley Rice
The water inlet position can be changed on a project in the real-world and we might need to do this in...
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Cymap - Adding a Point of Use Water Heater in Public Health
By Gary Mann
The reason that Water Heaters are not featured in Cymap by default is because they are not specifically ...
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Cymap - Using Plumbing Pods in PH
By Gary Mann
I have seen several methods of modelling a Pod, but some fall short on optimising pipe sizes to BSEN806-...
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Cymap - How do you want to open this file?
By Gary Mann
If you have successfully downloaded the latest release of Cymap using Internet Explorer and are attempti...
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Cymap Wiring - Backup/Cascading Protection and Data Entry
By David Wren
Occasionally we have the situation where the calculated Short Circuit (SC) fault current at a Final Boa...
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Cymap - Updating and Sending CPD Databases
By Ashley Rice
All the databases within Cymap are open-source, meaning that the end user can add, edit or update them...
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Cymap - Defining a Room (Part 1)
By Gary Mann
A majority of Cymap users who have not undergone Basic training, spend far too long defining rooms when ...
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Cymap - Additional Margins
By Gary Mann
Generally, Cymap does not add allowances by default, reference the following document:
BSRIA Design Chec...
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Cymap - DXF Plotter
By Ashley Rice
Export your System from Cymap on a floor-by-floor basis or in a 3D complete DXF.
This blog assumes you...
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Cymap - Inserting Unequal Size Radiators
By Gary Mann
1. When inserting Radiators, Cymap obtains the room loss, adds any margin that the user has allowed and ...
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Cymap - How to route and calculate hot and cold-water manifolds
By Ashley Rice
Within cymap you can route your water distribution in a couple of ways, either with a traditional meth...
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Cymap Wiring – The new ‘Notes’ function in Final Boards
By David Wren
In previous versions of Cymap Wiring, it was only possible to find Ways in Final Boards where Notes had...
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Cymap - Editing a Database (DB)
By Gary Mann
Contrary to the title beginning with Cymap, this blog applies to the editing of any DB and may seem obvi...
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Cymap Mechanical - Making system connections easier
By Ashley Rice
Within Cymap you might find making connections from draw-offs to index runs easier with the below tips...
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Cymap - Applying template conditions to spaces
By Ashley Rice
I have had a few support questions recently regarding applying template conditions to spaces within Cy...
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Cymap - Import and Export Capabilities
By Ashley Rice
Within this blog we are going to be looking at some of the import and export capabilities for Cymap.
I...
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Cymap for Quantity Surveyors
By Gary Mann
We are often asked if we can add features to Cymap and the following is one such modification that shou...
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Cymap - Using Cymap Energy to calculate annual heating kW/hr
By Ashley Rice
Within Cymap’s energy program you can calculate the energy consumption in £’s on a month by month basi...