MagiCAD 2020, together with the preceding two update releases, brings extensive new functionality for MEP design in Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD environments. The new release totals over 190 features and improvements for both platforms combined, making it the largest release yet by MagiCAD Group in terms of new functionality. The amount and variety of features allows MagiCAD 2020 to make design work easier and to improve workflows throughout the MagiCAD ecosystem.
New Feature Highlights for MagiCAD 2020 for Revit
MagiCAD 2020
Common Tools
Support for Autodesk BIM 360 Design
Offers up-to-date MagiCAD dataset to all project participants
- Full support for Autodesk BIM 360 Design solution
- MagiCAD datasets can automatically synchronize within a Revit project using Revit standard functionality
MagiCAD 2020
Electrical
Updated wire routing tool
Provides better productivity & ease of use
- Real-time preview of the drawn wire before accepting the next point
- Most commonly used options available in toolbar
- New chamfered wire routing presentation style
- Possibility to activate an angular snap or a grid snap
- New automatic wiring mode that draws wires automatically between devices in a circuit
- Automatic wiring also displays a preview and you can toggle between alternatives before accepting a routing
MagiCAD 2020
Schematics
New Move & Stretch tool for schematics
Enables easy editing of schematic drawings
- New advanced Move & Stretch tool for modifying schematic drawings
- When a line is moved all associated symbols follow & connections are automatically kept intact
- New tool to prevent broken links when removing a symbol or device
MagiCAD 2020
Piping
Heat loss Calculations for heating systems
Enables verification of radiator power calculations & evaluating the need for insulation
- Calculate the heat losses and fluid temperatures of supply pipes
- Use a general ambient temperature or the temperatures of the spaces where the pipes are located
MagiCAD 2020
Ventilation & Piping
Copy & connect tool for entire branches in ventilation and piping design
Greatly improves modelling productivity and quality
- Copy, mirror, rotate or move a full ventilation or piping branch
- Adjust orientation and connect it into an existing network
MagiCAD 2020
Piping
Using constant pressure valves in domestic water systems
Enables calculations to be performed for the entire system
- Support for constant pressure valves
- Simply place the valves and define the correct outlet pressure from them
- Ensures that the system downstream has correct service pressure
MagiCAD 2020
Ventilation, Piping & Electrical
Smart Move tool for Changing elevation offsets
Improves modeling productivity
- Easily modify the elevation offsets for selected network parts
- Move existing objects to a new elevation based on other objects’ offset
- Ready offset alternatives for needed changes available
- Selections can be previewed before they are applied
MagiCAD 2020
Ventilation & Piping
Resizing ducts and pipes directly from calculation & select report content
Introduces new bidirectional functions to calculation reports
- Change duct & pipe size and insulation type directly from the calculation report
- Select the report columns to be displayed and edit their order in the reports
MagiCAD 2019 UR-2
Common Tools
Integration to heating and cooling load calculations
Improves communication and collaboration between MEP designers and energy simulation professionals
- Enables integration with external tools for calculating heating and cooling load demands
MagiCAD 2019 UR-2
Ventilation, Piping & Electrical
New 3D routing tool for Ventilation, Piping and Electrical
Improves productivity in 3D modelling for all MEP disciplines
- Wide range of quick, helpful, and effective functions for routing work in a 3D view
- Employ both local and global coordinate systems
- Easily define the placement, direction and length of MEP elements
- Offers numerous short cuts and visual tools will also help to improve 3D modelling productivity
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Electrical
Integrated electrical calculations inside Revit
Brings calculations conveniently inside Revit
- MagiCAD for Revit now includes the Schneider Electric Ecodial calculation engine
- Performs complete calculations with bidirectional flow of data between the calculations and Revit project
- Enables a wide range of electrical calculations:
- Cable sizing
- Voltage drop
- Short-circuit calculations
- Enabler to automatically select appropriate protective devices from early stage electrical design information
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Common Tools
Different formats for generating clash reports
Offers more options for clash reports
- Via BCF Manager export all or selected clashes in:
- BIM Collaboration Format BcfZip
- Spreadsheet
- Printouts
New Feature Highlights for MagiCAD 2020 for AutoCAD
MagiCAD 2020
Piping
Using constant pressure valves in domestic water systems
Enables calculations to be performed for the entire system
- Support for constant pressure valves
- Simply place the valves and define the correct outlet pressure from them
- Ensures that the system downstream has correct service pressure
MagiCAD 2020
Piping
Heat loss calculations for heating systems
Enables verification of radiator power calculations & evaluating the need for insulation
- Calculate the heat losses and fluid temperatures of supply pipes
- Use a general ambient temperature
MagiCAD 2020
Electrical
Centralized switchboard and panel management
Brings managing all switchboards and extra low voltage panels in one centralized location
- See list of all objects in dialogue
- Select either one or multiple objects on the list and edit their data
- Data that can be directly input into a field is directly accessible with a right-click
MagiCAD 2019 UR-2
Electrical
Supply area calculations for switchboards
Offers an easy way for ensuring that the supply areas for switchboards are not too large
- Enables adding and showing switchboard surface area to an area summary for the corresponding switchboard
MagiCAD 2019 UR-2
Ventilation, Piping & Schematics
Mapping property data from Schematic projects to Ventilation & Piping projects
Write several types of property data from Schematic projects to Ventilation & Piping projects
- Map data for:
- Cooling power for Climate beam devices
- Heating power for Climate beam devices
- Heating power for Radiator devices
- Required flow for e.g. air devices
MagiCAD 2019 UR-2
Electrical
Simultaneous handling of multiple circuits in switchboard schematics
Editing of circuits in switchboard schematics made easier and faster
- Move, copy or delete multiple sequential circuits simultaneously
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Ventilation, Piping & Electrical
Improved Change Properties function
Ventilation & Piping design
- Height levels of multiple devices can be changed using a single command
Electrical design
- Bend & branch types of modelled cable trays, lighting tracks and LED stripes can be changed using Change Properties without needing to change default fitting type for the whole cable route in project settings
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Ventilation & Piping
Defining functional areas separately for each product
Provides an option for more accurate functional area separation
- Functional areas can now be defined for:
- Each ventilation and piping product separately (New)
- Each product type (Previously existing)
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Ventilation & Piping
Selecting whether components installed to insulated duct or pipe inherit insulation
Minimises the need for changes
- When installing components to insulated ducts or pipes, you can now select whether the insulation is inherited by the installed components
- When e.g. a flow damper is installed to an insulated duct, you can choose whether the flow damper is to be insulated by default or not
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Ventilation
Performing diversity calculations in ventilation design
Optimises cost, energy consumption and indoor air quality
- Diversity calculations enables estimation of the real flow of ventilation system when taken into use
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Sprinkler
Designing and calculating sprinkler systems using flexible pipes
- Flexible pipes are compatible with MagiCAD’s sprinkler calculations and reports
- Reports include the actual length and the corresponding equivalent length of the flexible pipes
MagiCAD 2019 UR-1
Sprinkler
Verifying sprinkler system coverage and sprinkler operation areas
- Verify that the coverage of the sprinkler system is adequate for the selected room spaces
- Easy to view and hide sprinkler operation areas on the floorplan
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