We are not finished, but we are very close. I think we’ve done a very good job meeting these goals, if I may say so. But, what if you could quickly build the house out of room size blocks rather than draw the house line by line? This has always been mutually exclusive with goal #1, above, because 3D always meant some kind of CAD. Looking down on a 2D plan set just isn’t good enough. – The hardest part of designing a residential HVAC system is figuring out how to make the ducts fit.
It has to be three dimensional (3D) and draw ducts realistically and to scale. We need to be able to see that something looks right. It is too easy to make mistakes when looking at a bunch of numbers. It has to be graphical and look like a house and not just be a bunch of numbers in a table. We need something fast enough that it can even be used as part of the bidding process. It has to be easy and fast – Too many smaller projects, especially existing homes, don’t have the time budget to do a full blown ACCA Manual J/S/D layout using currently available software. When I set out to design it I had a few simple goals: We finally have something that we are ready to show off and I couldn’t be more excited. I decided a long time ago that it was time for a major improvement in residential HVAC design and energy modeling software, or at least in how information is taken from the plans and put into that software. I’ve been working on a side project with my son, a software wiz, for over a year.
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