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Revision as of 09:16, 23 March 2026
Product information
- Educational version features
- List of standards and methods used for sizing and calculations
- Release notes InstalSystem 5
- Package technical specifications
Designing lessons
- Introduction to the work with the package InstalSystem 5
- Calculation of cooling capacity for radiant systems (floor, wall or ceiling)
- Calculation of design heat load of rooms
- Designing heating systems with convective radiators
- Designing installations with flat stations
- Designing mechanical ventilation installations
- Designing of radiant heating floor and wall installation
- Designing of water supply system installation
- Designing panel (ceiling, wall) heating/cooling systems
- Designing radiant heating systems with pipe-runs as distribution system
- Designing rainwater drainage installations
- Designing sanitary system loop installations
- Designing gravity sanitary sewage installations
- Quick design of gravity sanitary sewage installations
- Quick design of radiant heating/radiant cooling
- Radiant steel ceiling panels
Sample projects
- Convective heating installation and water supply system with use of flat stations in a multifunctional building - multi-branch project
- Convective heating installation with radiators in residential building (example for the lesson)
- Convective heating installation with risers in multifunctional building
- Design heat load in residental building (example for the lesson)
- Gravity sanitary sewage installations - quick design (example for the lesson)
- Mechanical ventilation installation in residential building (example for the lesson)
- Panels (ceiling and wall) installation used for heating or cooling
- Preparation of building structure - Roof modeling - Basic design cases
- Radiant cooling and panel systems in multifunctional building
- Radiant heating floor and wall system in single family building
- Radiant heating floor and wall system in single family building (example for the lesson)
- Radiant heating floor and wall system - quick design (example for the lesson)
- Radiant heating floor system in single family building
- Radiant heating installation in a Tichelmann system (example for the lesson)
- Radiant steel ceiling panels installation in commercial building (example for the lesson)
- Rainwater drainage installation in a multifamily building (example for the lesson)
- Radiant heating system and water supply system with use of flat stations in a residental building (example for the lesson) - multi-branch project
- Sanitary sewage installation in a multifamily building (example for the lesson)
- Sewage installations - Bypass ventilation
- Water supply loop system in residential building (example for the lesson)
- Water supply system and convective heating installation with use of flat stations in a multifunctional building - multi-branch project
- Water supply system and radiant heating system with use of flat stations in a residental building (example for the lesson) - multi-branch project
- Water supply system in multifunctional building
- Water supply system in residential building (example for the lesson)
Functions and tools
- Appending drawings with radiant system loops
- Automatically connect terminal units
- Automatically generate schematic views
- BIM - Creating additional and internal storey levels
- BIM - Creating storeys based on data from IFC model
- BIM - Export of installation and construction data from the project do IFC models
- BIM - Import and management of IFC models in InstalSystem 5 package
- BIM - Interpretation of IFC elements into building structure elements of InstalSystem 5 package
- BIM - Interpretation of ifcSpace elements into rooms of InstalSystem 5 package
- Buffer tank
- Combine base files
- Component appearance and descriptions configuration
- Connecting storeys with the Riser (Stack) element
- Copying with a base point, rotation, mirroring
- Creating and using modules with fittings in heating and water supply installations
- Defining your own search criteria
- Design based on a project file from InstalSystem 4
- Drawing chart
- Editing data of Building units
- Export / print results and drawings
- General data
- Ground modeling
- Heating floor with return temperature limiter
- Heating/cooling zone
- Heating/cooling zone build-up editor
- Import underlay files
- Inserting plates in dry floor heating system
- Installation, activation and update InstalSystem 5 package
- Interactive calculations of radiant systems
- Linear and point thermal bridges
- Manifold table
- Manifolds, manifold sets and accessories
- Optimization of the supply temperature of radiant systems
- Pipe feeds route and editing pipe feeds in a radiant system
- Pipe feeds route - Good practices and use cases
- Pipe-run
- Preparation of building structure
- Preparation of building structure - Additional and internal storey levels
- Preparation of building structure - Complete building structure
- Preparation of building structure - Creation of a loggia
- Preparation of building structure - Creation of roofs with different construction
- Preparation of building structure - Multi-storey rooms
- Preparation of building structure - Roof modeling - Creation of dormers
- Preparation of building structure - Rooms layout
- Preparation of building structure - Without rooms
- Presentation of the calculations result
- Project and application management
- Project browsing, searching and selection of elements
- Software configuration
- Specific of design installations in the buildings with additional and internal storey levels
- Terminal unit
- Three-way mixing valve reducing the temperature of hot water
- Using catalogs and catalogs data in the project
- Wall geometry correction
- View navigation in the graphical editor
Tips&Tricks
- Demand type of water taps
- Determination of adjacent space temperature
- Differences in the room volume calculation between version 4 and version 5
- General recommendations for users of InstalSystem 4 starting work with InstalSystem 5
- Heat source dimensioning for installations with flat stations
- How to calculate a false ceiling as a thermal Partition between usable Storey and unheated attic
- How to calculate a file using a package configuration other than the one under which the file was created
- How to change coordinates in the imported DWG underlay
- How to create the schematic view for an asymmetrical installation
- How to create the schematic view with remote connections
- How to create sewage approaches in the false ceiling of the storey below
- How to draw a building with patio
- How to eliminate common mistakes and diagnostic messages regarding roof modeling
- How to eliminate diagnostic messages indicating insufficient insulation thickness of pipe-runs
- How to eliminate diagnostic messages regarding building structure
- How to eliminate diagnostic messages regarding interpretation of IFC model
- How to eliminate messages about activation problems
- How to eliminate: "Automatic division of H/C Zone not possible"
- How to eliminate: "Automatic arrangement of pipe feeds not possible - change pipe feeds route or H/C Zone parameters or arrange pipe feeds manually"
- How to eliminate: "Cannot apply any pipe spacing"
- How to eliminate: "Cannot determine Dpmin on valve"
- How to eliminate: "Connection angle of the pipe-run to a fitting tolerance exceeded"
- How to eliminate: "Inadmissible air layer in partition"
- How to eliminate: "Incorrect building contour"
- How to eliminate: "Insufficient number of manufacturer's products"
- How to eliminate: "Maximum air flow velocity exceeded"
- How to eliminate: "MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE PRESSURE DROP ON VALVE EXCEEDED"
- How to eliminate: "Max. working load %.1f exceeds permissible value %.1f for selected floor construction (insulation). Insulation was not determined"
- How to eliminate: "No R.H./R.C. loop found. Loop drawing required for heating/cooling output calculations"
- How to eliminate: "No value of required heating output"
- How to eliminate: "PRESSURE DROP TOO HIGH - modify the parameters of H/C Zone or H/C Area"
- How to eliminate: "Terminal unit connection system from other catalogue than connection pipes"
- How to eliminate: "The pipe-run is part of the receiver connection"
- How to eliminate "Too big elevation difference for sanitary ware"
- How to eliminate: "Too high water volume of h.w. network outside circulation loop"
- How to eliminate: "Unbalanced circuit of terminal unit "XY"..."
- How to get better quality of resultant PDF files
- How to include the drawing loop lenght in the calculations?
- How to make the program run faster
- How to modify an automatically generated schematic view
- How to organize overlapping element labels in a project
- How to prepare IFC files in Revit / Archicad for Thermal calculations in InstalSystem 5 (for architects and BIM coordinators)
- How to properly connect manifold with heating/cooling zone using pipe feeds route
- How to shorten calculation time
- How to take into account other heat source not included in the designed installation
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Problems with correct graphics display and program stability
- Quick access to frequently repeated data
- Radiant heating systems - how to improve thermal and hydraulic results
- Transition of laminar flow into turbulent flow and its consequences
- Where does the difference between the building's heat load and the total declared room loss come from?
- Why is the "U" value not presented in the definition of ground partitions