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  • CIBSE Gain calculation - Solar gains at night

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Designer Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview CIBSE Gain results can often display Solar Gains at night, for example: Explanation…

  • Design Database hangs after opening project, or "Timeout accessing the database" error occurs

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Design Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview Design Database projects may stop functioning or generate a Timeout error on opening…

  • RE: Save custom fabric data for all projects?

    Hi, the following document from our Wiki page explains how to do this: communities.bentley.com/.../creating-a-template-project.aspx Please let us know if you have any further questions.

  • Daylight Calculations in Design Database

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Design Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview Daylight factors can be calculated for Design Database projects. Method An…

  • Link Features to Geopak DDB issue

    So far, most of my experience with Geopak SS3 has been on the Survey side of things getting everything setup correctly. Since that setup is about 90% complete, I was going to turn my attention on importing my old Geopak DDB to begin to build my Feature…

  • CAD Model Design - Changing Floor Heights

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Designer Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview This document provides guidance on how to change Floor heights in Design Database…

  • Skip Striping Correction for 10/10/20

    It was brought to our attention that the pay items in the ddb for the 10/10/20 skip striping were not calculating correctly. This has been fixed and is now available for download. The attached ddb should replace the existing ddb located in the following…
    • fdot2010.ddb

  • Checking your drainage components to see if they are recognized by the DDB.

    One of the easiest ways to check that everything in your drainage project will be recognized is to set your project up to have a noticeable difference in the design graphics and the finished graphics for your GEOPAK Drainage system. To do this, set the…

  • GEOPAK DDB with TrueType Font??

    I am trying to globally edit the GEOPAK D & C Manager database (ddb) in order to change the font used by all of the entries to a TrueType font. I saved the ddb as a txt file in order to do a "search and replace" on the font name. However I can find no…

  • Globally Replace Cells and have them quantify in the Design and Computation Manager

    The following method is to show how to globally replace old cells with new cells and have it set to a DDB item for downstream automated quantities. In our example, we have Bike Symbols placed without GEOPAK attributes. (This will also work with previous…

  • CAD Model Design - Elevating roofs using Roof Points

    Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Designer Version(s): V8i (N/A) Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Overview When designing a roof for a Design Database project, you may not be able to elevate…
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