Sample project · one DWG, every discipline

A two-storey office,
from floor plan to drain stack.

Architecture, ventilation, floor heating and radiators, toilets with their drainage and water, power, lighting, data and fire alarm — all drawn in VectorCAD with the VectorMEP module, in a single standard DWG you can download and open. Every picture below is a full-screen VectorCAD window: click one to see it at full size.

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Cut-away 3D view of the whole building with ductwork, pipes, radiators, luminaires and cables, with the VM V&P ribbon tab open — building-all.dwg — the whole building, VM V&P tab

Complete building · every discipline

The complete building

Architecture, mechanical, plumbing and electrical in one model: the services are routed through the building, the openings cut through its walls and slabs, and everything stays a normal DWG.

Every service in one model

Seen from the north-east: the ductwork, floor heating and radiators, the toilets with their drainage and water, the luminaires, cable trays and cables of both floors, inside the walls they pass through.

One project: storeys, systems, products and installation codes
Openings in walls and slabs cut automatically (VMOPENAUTO)
Clash check, bill of materials and IFC4 export from the same model

The complete building from the north-east in realistic 3D, with the VM Electrical ribbon tab: ductwork, pipes, luminaires, trays and cables of both floors inside the walls — building-all.dwg — the complete building from the north-east, VM Electrical tab

Ground floor plan and 3D building

Walls, door swings, windows, room names, areas and dimensions on the A-PLAN layers — and the same building as 3D solids with its window openings and roof.

Lines, polylines, arcs, text and dimensions
3D solids, the ViewCube and Realistic visual style
Real DWG output that opens in any DWG software

Ground floor plan in VectorCAD with the Annotate ribbon tab: plant room, two open offices, electrical room, corridor and five offices with doors, windows, areas and dimensions — cad-plan.dwg — the ground floor plan, Annotate tab

Realistic 3D view of the two-storey office building with its windows and flat roof, Home ribbon tab — cad-3d.dwg — the building in 3D, Realistic style

Mechanical · ventilation & heating

Mechanical

Ventilation on both floors, floor heating on the ground floor and radiators on the first, drawn with VectorMEP on the VM V&P tab: every duct, pipe, fitting and product is a real 3D body that carries its engineering data.

Supply and extract air from one air-handling unit

Supply (red) and extract (blue) mains along both corridors, risers from the plant room, branches through fire dampers to every diffuser and grille, the toilets' extract and a roof fan — calculated and sized.

VMDUCT routes with automatic bends, tees and reducers
Device Connection joins diffusers to a duct in one pass
VMCALC flows, pressure drops and balancing, VMSIZE sizing

Realistic 3D view of the supply and extract ductwork of both floors with diffusers, grilles, fire dampers, the air-handling unit and the roof fan — mech-3d.dwg — ventilation and piping of both floors

The Vector MEP calculation window over the ductwork: systems, flows, pressure drops and the critical path — VMCALC — flows, pressure drops and the critical path

Plant room close-up

The air-handling unit with its outdoor-air and exhaust ducts and silencers, the hot water cylinder, the cold and hot water mains and the toilets' drainage collectors in the ceiling — shown with the high level of detail from VMDETAIL.

Detailed 3D products with VMDETAIL High
Every system in its own colour
Openings in walls and slabs generated from the routes

Plant room in realistic 3D: air-handling unit, silencers, supply and extract ducts, hot water cylinder, water pipes and drainage collectors — mech-detail.dwg — the plant room

Floor heating: zones, loops, manifolds and the calculation

Each office is a heating zone: VMFHZONE lays its loops (meander, double meander or spiral) at the spacing its heat demand needs, splits long ones, and runs the leaders to the manifold. VMFHCALC checks every loop: output, floor temperature, length, pressure drop and the valve preset.

EN 1264 output, downward losses and design flow temperature
Automatic spacing and loop splitting under 120 m
Manifold presets so every loop gets its flow

Floor heating plan of the ground floor: loops in every office and open office, leaders to three manifolds — heating-plan.dwg — loops and manifolds of the ground floor

The floor heating calculation window: each loop's area, spacing, heat flux, output, floor temperature, length, pressure drop and preset — VMFHCALC — every loop checked after EN 1264

Plumbing · sanitary, drainage & water

Plumbing

Ladies', gents' and showers with wall-hung and floor-standing WCs, washbasins, shower trays, a bathtub, floor drains and a linear drain — connected and calculated.

Every fixture connected in one command, the drainage sized after EN 12056-2

VMSANCONNECT pipes each fixture's drain into the wall, down through the slab and across to its collector at a fall, and its cold and hot water to their mains. VMDRAINCALC adds the discharge units along every pipe, gives the flow, filling and velocity, and advises the size.

Wall-hung and floor WCs, washbasins, showers, bathtubs, floor drains, gullies
Collectors at a fall, the stack and the building drain
EN 12056-2 discharge units, frequency factor and pipe capacity

The toilets in realistic 3D: WCs, washbasins, shower trays and bathtub with their drains, collectors, stack, cold and hot water pipes and the hot water cylinder — sanitary.dwg — fixtures, drainage and water

The drainage calculation window: each drainage pipe with its fixtures, discharge units, flow, capacity, filling and velocity, and the fixtures on drainage — VMDRAINCALC — the drainage after EN 12056-2

Electrical · power, lighting & low current

Electrical

Drawn with VectorMEP on the VM Electrical tab: switchboards, luminaires, sockets, cables, circuits and cable routes — calculated and checked.

Plan and 3D

Luminaires in every room, sockets along the walls, the cable trays along both corridors with their supports, and the cables of each circuit routed onto them to the switchboards; data outlets and the fire alarm loop with its bus addresses.

Switchboards, circuits and cables that chain the devices
Trays, packets, supports and tray fill
Loads, voltage drop and short-circuit checks (VMELCALC)

Electrical plan: luminaires, sockets, cables and circuits running along the corridor to the switchboards — elec-plan.dwg — the ground floor's electrical plan

Realistic 3D view of the electrical installation: luminaires, cable trays and cables, the switchboard — elec-3d.dwg — the installation in 3D

Switchboard schematic and a control page

VMSCHEMA draws the switchboard's single-line schematic from the circuits in the drawing; the Circuit Designer draws the air-handling unit's motor starter as a control page with its contactor, overload relay and push buttons, cross-referenced and numbered.

Single-line schematic straight from the model
Circuit Designer: control pages, cross references, terminal strips
Device, wire and cable lists

The single-line schematic of switchboard TE-1 with its circuits, protections and cables — VMSCHEMA — switchboard TE-1

A Circuit Designer control page: a motor starter with contactor, overload relay, start and stop buttons and the motor — Circuit Designer — the AHU's motor starter

Open it yourself

The drawing is a normal DWG with VectorMEP data attached to plain blocks. In VectorCAD with VectorMEP every part keeps its system, size and calculation data; in other DWG software it opens and plots like any drawing.

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A two-storey office,from floor plan to drain stack.