SHC Feature List
Advanced Hydraulic Calculation Engine
- Hazen-Williams friction loss formula
- Darcy-Weisbach friction loss formula
- BS EN 12845 mode
- Simultaneous Hazen/Darcy mixed formula - calculate part of a system with the Hazen-Williams formula and part with the Darcy-Weisbach formula
- Demand calculations (start with the system demand)
- Supply calculations (start with the water supply to the system) with optional safety margin
- Calculate any piping configuration - loop, tree, grid, or completely custom
- Suitable for many suppression system designs including wet, dry, pre-action, deluge, antifreeze, low, medium, and high pressure mist, foam-water, foam concentrate and more!
- Multiple water supplies fully supported
- Multiple fire pumps supported
- Multiple backflow prevention and fixed loss devices supported
- Can adjust water supply and demand to base of system riser or any other node
- No artificial limit on number of pipes or nodes (greater than 2000 permitted)
- Fitting loss coefficient K support (for non-sprinkler work)
Reports
- NFPA 13 (the fire sprinkler installation standard) compliance capable
- Automatically adapts to paper size
- Customizable report page header text
- Customizable node analysis information
- Customizable pipe information
- Graphs and text use color to aid readability (optional)
- Export as pdf, html, or plain text
Syntax Highlighting Data Entry Editor
- Real time error checking
- Automatic "proposals" for fast data entry
- Descriptive node and pipe names up to 8 characters long
- "LiveLook" information bar for quick system evaluation
- Robust U.S. and SI unit support - even mixed U.S. and SI units supported
- Group editing of selected values by type (size, length, elevation, k-factor, etc.)
- Multiple undo and redo
- "Popup" helpers for remembering/using material codes, fitting codes, etc.
- Undefined and unused node list
- User selectable font
- User selectable highlighting colors
Calculation Results Window
- All system, node, and pipe information displayed in tabular format for comprehensive system analysis
- Pipe and node information sortable by any value
- User selectable pipe information columns
- Fully resizable window, displays as much information as it can
- Persistent - you may keep this window open and in view while editing input data!
Pipe Material Editor
- View properties and internal diameters of any defined material
- Edit properties and internal diameters of any material (except default "schedule 40 steel" piping material
- Enter entirely new pipe materials
Fitting Equivalent Length Editor
- View equivalent lengths for any defined fitting code
- Edit equivalent lengths for any defined fitting code
- Create new global and material specific fitting codes
Liquid Properties Editor
- View properties of any defined liquid
- Edit properties of any defined liquid
- Define new liquids
Equivalent K-factor Calculator
- Uses the full power of SHC's solver including Hazen-Williams, Darcy-Weisbach, velocity pressures, k-factor liquid adjustment, and more.
- Can model simple sprigs and drops or entire dead-end branchlines.
- Familiar data input style similar to
SHC's data editor - helper's included. - Full integration in the hydraulic calculation report.
DXF Files
- Import DXF files - the format supported by most CAD applications
- Automatically define pipes and nodes from drawing's "line" and "lwpolyline" ACAD entities
- Automatically searches "text" entities for nominal pipe sizes
- Full preview of generated commands before committing them to the input data
- Update DXF file after calculation
- Updated nominal pipe size "text" entities to match SHC's data file
- Add "text" for node and pipe labels
- Add "text" for node discharge
- Add "text" for pipe flow rates
- Add pipe flow direction arrows