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FireSysCAD Fire By Design, Lake Villa, IL approached A'cad Solutions March 2008 to create a program to help create Fire Alarm drawings. The program will be used to help designers create drawings in a timely manner, while providing checks throughout the design process to make sure design is complete.
Executive Overview FireSysCAD program was written to help companies create Fire Alarm drawings. The program uses Excel spreadsheets to maintain Project Information and FireSysCAD block-layer information. Users insert blocks into the drawing, create lines between blocks and then update block attributes (device number, candella, watt, decibel, zone, level, location, room name, etc) based on block location. User can create part list tables, legends, notes, details, circuit tables, module point tables and Riser Diagrams. – Block information is stored in an Excel spreadsheet for use by various programs. Data stored includes - Blocks - block abbreviation, description (legend), block group (control, detect, module, notify, aux), block drawing name, layer name, corresponding detail drawing name, description (part list), installation notes, mounting notes, and specific manufacturer part number Layers - layer name, single verses multiple layering, color, linetype, plot/no plot, description Panels - manufacturer, panel name, number NAC circuits, number SLC circuits, number SLC detectors, number SLC modules, total devices Blocks are inserted by selecting Block Group Type (control, detect, module, notify, aux), then selecting corresponding block name Wires are drawn between Blocks with 1 line for each circuit, then labels are put on the lines between each set of blocks or groups of blocks Block attributes (device number, candella, watt, decibel, zone, location, room name, etc) are updated based on panel-circuit-device number, location, room name, etc Check programs search for blocks with blank attributes, duplicate device numbers, missing device numbers Check programs can highlight blocks by panel, circuit, zone, level, location, room name, etc A Riser Diagram is created from the wiring/blocks in the drawing. After completion of blocks-wires-riser diagram, then part list tables, legends, notes, details, circuit tables, module point tables are created.
Program Benefits Learn the complete drawing system in less than 1 day Create a single source document Simple system to add or change blocks, wires, part lists, etc Easy to create, add, modify or delete Notes, Legends Create accurate Part Lists Automatically create ASCII output file from Part Lists for export to other programs Eliminate the task of manually create Riser Diagrams Provide improved communication between Designer, Customer and Installer CAD Manager controlled database, blocks, title blocks, layers, colors, linetypes, plotting, etc.
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