For example:

• Pipe command including system class determination
• Automatic connection of pipes including necessary transitions (autorouting)
• Automatic T-piece connection
• Pipe offset command to resolve collisions
• Configurators for convectors and tanks
• Configurator of parallel pipes for routing multiple pipes at once
• Panel cooling assistant for circle and pipe laying including construction area editor
• Automatic Labeling

For example:

• Tools for predimensioning technical equipment rooms for all disciplines
• Drag&Drop Editor for defining cross sections of the pipeline corridors
• Placing of predimesnioned pipeline corridors
• Communication of the space requirements via IFC ("Provisions for Voids")

For example:

• Void planning with tools for collaboration with architects, structural engineers and other participants
• Report and task manager with BCF and IFC Ex- & Import

For example:

• View creation assistant for 3D views, floor plans, ceiling plans and area plans
• Quick 3D selection box command
• Quick working section commands
• Automatic sorting and assignment of views
• Suggestions for best suitable views
• Automatic LOG assignement to views
• View filter

For example:

• Automatic import of storeys from the architectural model
• Control of the storey in the Construction level / offset (+/-) section
• Easy Creation of storeys and work levels
• Separate storey table for mutliple building parts (e.g. for split levels)

For example:

• One click visibility control for building parts
• One click visibility control for storeys
• One click visibility control for disciplines
• One click visibility control for component groups (e.g. systems, insulations, etc.)

For example:

• Assigning of responsibilities for automatic (e.g. from the calculations) or manually created tasks
• Set of deadlines and priorities for tasks
• Status tracking of tasks
• Definition of given workflows for the resolution of tasks
• Adding of Screenshots, comments, positions to tasks
• Sharing and assignment of tasks to participants via BCF

For example:

• Providing of all necessary components for your project centrally
• Components or configurators suitable for the active discipline
• Filtered by active discipline, used in project and locations (local or folder in the network)
• Sorted in component groups for quick orientation
• Multiple placing comands for families (place, replace, replace all, place on grid)
• Integration of own family libraries
• Intelligent search function
• Pick and place again of a component in the model

For example:

• Extensive CAD libraries with approved components of our wide range of industry partner
• More than 6 billion possible components and component combinations
• Direct placement of original manufacturer components into your model
• Multiple placing modes (place, replace, replace all of a kind)
• Configurators for complex component combinations (e.g. cascade systems)
• Including technical and commercial data (e.g. article numbers and packaging units)
• Detection and consideration in the network calculations

For example:

• Assigning of liNear parameters to your own shared parameters in a project-dependent mapping table
• Search and filter functions for mapping or overwrite of parameters
• Loading and Saving of predefined project standards
• Assignment of classification parameter to components and model elements to fill it with values
• Structure the classification of component groups in the IFC export
• Classification components related to cost groups for precise cost estimations

For example:

• Detection and display of collisions of any kind within a project or between several projects
• Collision check between Architecture and all disciplines
• Collision check between two discipline or one discipline with the architecture
• Collision check between single or multiple categories (e.g. walls and pipes)
• Collision check between single or multiple systems (e.g. Gas and exhaust air)
• Automatic creation of tasks for each collision in the Report and Task Tab
• Saving and Loading of predefined configurations

For example:

• Building detection and analysis including the information required for load calculations (e.g. target heating and cooling temperatures)
• Definition and transfer of further building parameters (e.g. apartment names)
• Easy-to-use MEP room and zoning tool
• Detection of Building parts, storeys, zones and rooms
• Automatic transfer of all building sections, storeys, rooms and room components including room temperatures and adjacent temperatures directly from the Revit model
• Detection and consideration of ground approximation
• Automatic check of modeling mistakes in the architectural model to communicate to the architect

For example:

• Automatic transfer of all building sections, storeys, rooms and room components directly from the Revit model
• Dynamic Cooling load calculations based on multiple national and international norms
• Calculation of the room air temperature
• Calculation of the operative room temperature
• Assistant for determination of internal and external loads
• Cross-project definition of reusable profiles (loads, brightness, usage, temperatures, operating profiles, etc.)
• Calculation by means of periodic settling with CDD or by means of aperiodic settling with CDP (defined forward run, start and CDD)
• Separate display of the results for dry (residual) cooling load, the cooling load from panel cooling, the cooling load from AHU/ supply air system and the total cooling load
• Window configurator with shadow consideration
• Parametric data model for easy changes
• Automatic update after changes in the architectural model
• Extensive material library for defining components
• Quick and easy calculation of U-values
• Faster input by creating standard components

For example:

• Dimensiong of convectors for each room based on the head load calculation
• Consideration of allready integrated convectors in the model and new dimensioning, layout and update of the model
• Easy variant comparison
• Determination and assignment of pipe runs, manifolds, manifold connections and control components (e.g. valves)
• Extensive data sets of manufacturer products for convectors and panel cooling systems

For example:

• Dimensioning and layout of panel cooling (floor, wall and Ceiling) based on the cooling load calculation
• Easy variant comparison
• Determination and assignment of pipe runs, manifolds, manifold connections and control components (e.g. valves)
• Automatic creation of pipe run schemes
• Extensive data sets of manufacturer products for radiators, convectors and panel heating systems

For example:

• Automatic placement of radiators, convectors and panel heating systems into your CAD model
• Automatic labeling of transferred components
• Transfer and update of dimensioned components into your model and from your model to the dimensioning

For example:

• Detection of drawn pipes directly in the model and analysis of the system
• Detection of all integrated components
• Consideration of technical datas integrated in the model
• Detection of drawn dimension for the optionally consideration in the network calculation
• Easy mapping of foreign components for the consideration in the network calculation

For example:

• Automatic calculation and dimensioning of all components in the heating pipe network
• Consideration of given gerneral conditions e.g. limit values for velocities and the pipe friction pressure gradient (R-value)
• Determination and variant comparison of pipe materials and components including original manufacturer data sets with real product properties
• Calculation directly in the model incl. redimensioning
• Hydraulic calculations with transfer of performance data from family parameters
• Calculation of multiple systems in one model
• Selection of suitable (manufacturer) components based on the calculation results
• Saving of values directly in the model with optional consideration in the IFC export
• Interface for valve data sets, shut-off valves, differential pressure closed-loop controllers, volume flow closed-loop controllers, regulating valves, control valve and fixed resistors
• Visualization of results using liNear Data Coloring (dimensions, materials, velocities, unfavorable flow path and many more)

For example:

• Hydraulic calculations with transfer of performance data from family parameters
• Calculation of multiple systems in one model
• Determination also of networks with several control levels
• Consideration not onlyof the distribution networks, but also the generator part

For example:

• Clear and comprehensible calculation results as well as complete bill of quantities
• Detailed parts lists including article numbers and material check
• Bill of quantities and parts lists in several output formats (Windows printout, Excel, text, UGS, GAEB, ASD)

• Easy start and education with the liNear tutorials and example projects in the exclusive customer area on our website