CHAPTER 3
3 Overview of AVEVA E3D HVAC Designer
This chapter aims to introduce the HVAC application in regards to access, the user interface and the HVAC
viewing and manipulations controls.
Although this guide is about the design of HVAC ducting networks, in practice ductwork will be routed with
reference to predefined design items such as a frameworks, floors and ceilings. As such, it is important to
understand how items are defined in AVEVA E3D as well as learning how to route sequences of HVAC
components and ducting within them.
3.1 HVAC Administrative Elements
This section explains the Administrative context in which the HVAC elements are created.
Refer to TM-1869 AVEVA Everything3D™ HVAC Modelling Administration for further information on the
creation and management of HVAC Administrative elements.
3.1.1 HVAC Hierarchy
All Design data in AVEVA E3D is stored in the form of a hierarchy. An AVEVA E3D Design database has:
World (this can be represented by the symbolic name /*)
Two principal administrative sublevels, Site and Zone.
The names used to identify database levels below Zone depend on the specific engineering discipline for
which the data is used. For HVAC design data the lower administrative levels (and their AVEVA E3D
abbreviations) are:
HVAC (HVAC)
BRANCH (BRAN)
SPOOLS (HSLIST)
Each HVAC element can represent any portion of the overall ducting network.
Each Branch (BRAN) within an HVAC element represents a single sequence of components running between
two, and only two, points:
Branch Head
Branch Tail
The Spools (HLIST) contains a collection of HVAC spool elements.
The data which defines the physical design of the individual HVAC components is held below Branch level.
The overall format is as follows:
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WORLD /*
Common to All
Disciplines
SITE
ZONE
HVAC
HVAC Specific Elements
Branch Spools
(BRAN) (HLIST)
HVAC HVAC
Component Spool
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