ABC-ELECTIO is Swegon’s selection tool for their products with multiple airflows
08.03.2022
MagiCAD Group
Swegon’s ABC‑ELECTIO is a product selection program for grilles. It enables easy import of combination products as fully functional into MagiCAD for AutoCAD.
“The purpose of developing a selection tool is to make it easy for our customers, both contractors and consultants, to see our entire product range in each area (roof cowls, grills and wall devices) and be able to choose the right product and size.”
The challenge
Users are normally able to insert BIM objects with a single air flow data to their projects. The software understands objects with either supply or exhaust air, but not both of them. Swegon offers roof cowls that consist of three product parts: a roof inlet, an outdoor supply part, and an exhaust part. The main challenge for Swegon was to add roof cowl combination products with multiple air flows to a design software and make sure they function in calculations.
The solution
For the roof cowls, it is possible to define their product type to be exhaust air, outdoor air, or a combination of them in the selection tool. The Swegon’s ABC-ELECTIO MagiCAD Cloud Selection Tool allows designers to easily select correct size product with one or two air systems. In the project, these will be visible as one product as they are in real life, even though MagiCAD treats them as two different products for functional calculations.
How MagiCAD Cloud Selection Tool for Swegon works
The user has to first select which of the three products they want to add to the project; roof cowls, outdoor grilles, or wall device. In case of the roof cowls, the user has three product type options; exhaust air, outdoor air, or combination of the two.
After inserting air flow to the tool and searching for options, the correct product can be chosen from manufacturer’s recommended pressure drop area. The user can see all recommended sizes and description of calculation results including sound power level and the pressure drop. Roof duct is an optional product to be added to the roof cowl in this phase. The roof duct will be connected to the roof cowl and they are visible as one product package in the project. There are also additional accessories, but they will be transferred to the project as text and included in BOM.
If the user selects the grille, the configuration is similar to the roof cowls, but in the selection phase the user will have a matrix of suitable sizes to choose from. Inserting outdoor grilles to the project requires installation height as a mandatory field. After that air flow system has to be selected. The system can also be changed later in the project, if needed.
The third product type in the selection tool is the wall device. The selection process is basically identical to roof cowls, but it doesn’t have any optional products such as roof ducts.
Swegon’s ABC-ELECTIO selection tool makes product selection easy and effortless. Swegon’s recommendations and matrix help users to choose correct products to their projects.
“We believe that it’s important to develop digital tools for the customers so they can choose the right product in an easy way and to minimize the risk of errors when choosing products.”
See the online selection tool here: https://abcvent.magicad.cloud
About Swegon
Swegon Group AB, owned by Investment AB Latour, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, is a market leading supplier in the field of indoor environment, offering solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, and climate optimization, as well as connected services and expert technical support. Swegon has subsidiaries in and distributors all over the world and nineteen production plants in Europe, North America, and India.