Trace-Heating and more Options for Pipe-Insulation Tables and Color

[Mark.Friis]

For Pipes in Cold Areas, often a Pipe-Insulation is not enough to Prevent a Pipe-Burst due to Water freezing.

Here Trace-Heating Comes as a Solution. An Electrical Heating cable wired around the Pipe. An Option in Revit to

provide These cables and the Cable-Parameters like Length, Size, Watt per Meter per Temperature, and Maximal Watt/Meter, Total Wattage consumption at Zone/Mep-Room temperature. Also the Cable around the Pipe should be displayable. The Options for the Insulation should also Extended, with a Table for Insulation-Thickness per Pipe-Size --> Not all Insulation Thicknesses exists for all Pipe-Sizes. Give us the Option to Limit the allowed Thicknesses. Also The Color of the different Insulation-Families should be different to easier Show the Type of Insulation which is used. Some insulation are flammable and some are not. (See attached picure for more Information)

[Mark.Friis]

There should also be the Option to automate the pipe insulation-families, and make them dependent on different Parameters like Zone-Temperature, Zone-Fire-protection-level, Wall-fire-protection-level (at Wall or floor openings), Pipe-size, Pipe-System-type, Pipe-Type, Pipe-material, Pipe-Flameabillity-Level, Opening size, and etc.  + the Option to add further Parameter dependenzies. So when you draw a Pipe, it will automatically add the Right Insulation-typ in the Right thickness at the Right place. Doing this manually is about 1/6 of the total time it takes to draw a pipe-network. And 1/2 of the time it takes to make the Pipe-finish after a recalculation (Resizing the pipe-size and the Insulation). Btw. pipe-resizing is an Option under the Calculation-Header, insulation should also be.

[Mark.Friis]

Also the when drawing the Pipe, directly type in the insulation thickness, instead of adding it afterwards.

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Also need to be able to put more than 360000" of insulation on a pipe.