Reference

VectorMEP commands

120 commands, by discipline. Type a command on the command line, or find it on the VM ribbon tabs (the MEP workspace shows them after Home and Essentials).

HVAC & piping

`VMARROW`	flow arrows on the straight ducts and pipes, the way the calculation's flow goes
`VMBOM`	the bill of materials: ducts and pipes in metres, insulation, fittings and products by size (selection, drawing or project), as CSV
`VMBRANCHDIR`	turns the shoe (bevelled) branches to the flow, from the start of the ductwork picked
`VMCALC`	flows, sizing, pressure drops and balancing of the ductwork; report
`VMCHECK`	lists the parts, joints, open ends and misfits of the ductwork
`VMCHPROP`	gives many parts one property (system, size, insulation, status, codes, tag…), or that of a part picked: the selection, the drawing or the project's drawings
`VMCOMPONENT`	puts a damper, fire damper, silencer or filter into a duct
`VMCONTINUE`	draws on from a part (its + grip): from an open end the duct or pipe goes on with its size and height; from the middle of a straight run a branch starts
`VMCOPYBRANCH`	copies a whole branch onto another duct or pipe (new tee or outlet), to a free place, or at distances
`VMCOVER`	puts cleaning covers on the side of straight ducts or on open duct ends
`VMCROSS`	a duct or pipe climbs or drops between two points (over or under something), with bends at the angle chosen
`VMCROSSMULTI`	several ducts or pipes cross over or under one duct or pipe, keeping their distances apart
`VMDEVCONNECT`	Device Connection — air terminals and devices joined to a duct (picked, or the nearest of their system): up or out to its height, square into its side with a tee, within a maximum distance; flexible at the device if asked
`VMDISTBOX`	a distribution box on an open duct end, with outlets on its faces (far, left, right, top, bottom)
`VMDUCT`	draws round or rectangular ductwork with bends, reducers and tees
`VMEQUIPMENT`	places an air handling unit, a roof fan or a boiler as the root of its networks
`VMERASEBRANCH`	erases a whole branch from its tee or outlet (the tee becomes straight duct again)
`VMFORK`	puts a fork plate (installation plate) on an open duct end, with several outlets to draw on from
`VMGAP`	takes the piece between two points out of a straight duct or pipe
`VMHIDE`	draws the stretches of ducts and pipes covered by other parts (seen from above) dashed or not at all
`VMINSTALL`	Install Product — terminals, dampers, silencers, equipment, radiators, valves from the project's products or a library
`VMJOINT`	divides a straight duct or pipe in two at the points picked (a joint)
`VMLEGEND`	a legend of the systems and products in the drawing (Update rewrites it)
`VMMOVEZ`	changes the height of a whole network or of a branch (its first duct climbs or drops to it at the angle chosen)
`VMOPENAUTO`	openings made where ducts and pipes pass through the structure (3D walls and slabs) in an area
`VMOPENING`	an opening for builders' work in a wall, floor or ceiling, sized from a duct or pipe or given; Edit changes one
`VMOPTIONS`	the Duct Options or Pipe Options window — what VMDUCT and VMPIPE draw next
`VMPARTINS`	insulation on the part of a straight duct or pipe between two points (Add), or taken off it (Remove)
`VMPIPE`	draws heating or cooling pipes (DN of the system's pipe series) with bends, reducers and tees
`VMPIPES`	several pipes at once, side by side (a flow and its return, cold and hot water…), each on its system and size
`VMPLUG`	closes open ends of ducts and pipes with end caps
`VMPRODUCT`	makes a block reference a Vector MEP device with duct connections
`VMPROJECT`	the project window — information, storeys, systems, series, insulation, sizing and balancing methods
`VMRADCONNECT`	connects radiators to their flow and return mains (a leg out, to the main's height, a tee into the main)
`VMRADIATOR`	fits a panel radiator with its heat output on an open heating flow pipe end
`VMREPLACE`	replaces a product or a duct / pipe series by another (all sizes or one), with a test listing what each part becomes
`VMROUTE`	the route from a part (or the index terminal) to the fan or pump: each part's flow, velocity and pressure drop
`VMSELECT`	selects the parts of a branch, a network, a system, the run between two parts, or a saved filter
`VMSIDEMOVE`	makes the reducers of a run eccentric, keeping the ducts' top, bottom or a side in line (or back to the centre)
`VMSIMILAR`	Create Similar — a duct or pipe like the one picked, a device of the same product, or a dimension text of the same format
`VMSIZE`	gives round ducts the sizes VMCALC recommends, with reducers where sizes change
`VMSPLITSEG`	cuts the straight ducts and pipes selected in their series' lengths (Insert, Leave) or joins their pieces again (Erase)
`VMSYMBOL`	the plan symbol of a project product, or the project's symbol series (GEN, RO)
`VMTERMINAL`	fits an air terminal with its design flow on open duct ends
`VMUNHIDE`	shows hidden ducts and pipes whole again

Floor heating

`VMFHCALC`	Vector MEP floor heating: the calculation after EN 1264-2 — each loop's heat flux, output against the room's demand, floor surface temperature, return temperature, flow, length, pressure drop and valve presetting; a window or the command line, and a CSV
`VMFHMANIFOLD`	Vector MEP floor heating: a manifold — its tag, flow temperature, design temperature drop and outlets; the zones' loops start from its outlets
`VMFHZONE`	Vector MEP floor heating: a heating zone (one loop) — its outline (two corners or a closed polyline), pattern (meander, double meander, spiral), pipe spacing, pipe, floor covering, room temperature and heat demand; the loop drawn to its manifold

Plumbing

`VMDRAINCALC`	the drainage calculation after EN 12056-2 (system I) — each drainage pipe's fixtures and discharge units, the flow Q = K √ΣDU, what it carries at its fall (or as a stack), its filling and velocity, the size it needs; a window or the command line, and a CSV
`VMSANCONNECT`	connects sanitary fixtures to their mains — each drain to the nearest drainage main (falling or level: a leg out or straight down, to its height, a tee in), the cold and hot water to theirs

Electrical

`VMBOARD`	places a switchboard with its code (the project's switchboard product, or the generic wall board)
`VMBOARDAREA`	a switchboard area whose devices take their switchboard from it
`VMBUSADDR`	the addresses of the devices on each bus line of the hosts (DALI A0 … A63, other buses 1.line.device): Assign (the new ones, the others kept), Renumber, List (with the lines over their devices) or Clear
`VMBUSBAR`	busbar trunking (160 … 630 A) drawn as VMCABLE draws a cable: devices fed from it by short cables to its run
`VMCABLE`	draws an electrical or signal cable through devices and points, at its route height, ending on a device, a cable or a circuit
`VMCABLEMARK`	cable markings — the circuit and the cable type written along each cable selected (Mark), all of them written again (Update) or removed (Clear)
`VMCABLEROUTE`	takes the cables selected through the drawing's cable trays, ladders, trunking and conduits (the shortest way, on the trays' bottom), up and down at their devices; Reach sets how far a route may be
`VMCIRCMAN`	Cable Sizing & Circuit Management — each switchboard's circuits with their protection, cable, method, correction and RCD, the checks and the recommended sizes to apply (List / Apply / Select without the window)
`VMCIRCRENUM`	renumbers a switchboard's circuits — Sequence (all of them from a first number, in their order, the gaps closed) or Pick (the circuits picked one after another take the numbers; the others move past them)
`VMCIRCUIT`	a circuit at the supply end of a cable: switchboard, number, type, protection
`VMCIRCUITS`	the circuits by switchboard (List), the checks of the electrical installation (Check; Mark draws them on layer VM-ELCHECK), the devices' switchboard and circuit (Update)
`VMCLASH`	finds where ducts, pipes, cables and electrical devices cross each other or 3D objects and marks it
`VMCONNECTDEV`	Connect Devices — the devices selected that no cable reaches get a short cable of the type of the cable picked, up from each device to its height and across to the nearest point of it
`VMELBLOCK`	block references made electrical devices of a project product, where they are and turned as they are (the blocks erased or kept)
`VMELCALC`	the electrical calculation — loads in four cases, cable checks, voltage drops, short-circuit currents (Calculate), recommended protection and cables (Size)
`VMEMERGENCY`	the emergency luminaires by switchboard and circuit, and the checks: not on a circuit, on a circuit that is not emergency lighting, normal luminaires on an emergency circuit
`VMFLIPTEXT`	Flip Text — the dimension texts, labels and cable markings selected (or All) that read upside down turned half a turn in place
`VMHVACPOWER`	power points on HVAC equipment (air handling units, fans, pumps, boilers, fire and motorised dampers) with their power, to cable like any device (Connect), and the equipment without supply or circuit (List)
`VMIFC`	exports the ductwork, piping and electrical installation with their ports, connections, systems and circuits to IFC4
`VMLIGHTLINE`	an LED strip (watts per metre) or a lighting track (the watts of its spots) along a path at a height: one luminaire fed at its first point
`VMLINK`	logical connections — devices joined to a host without a cable drawn (Unlink frees them)
`VMPACKET`	draws a cable packet, the common route of supply cables to a switchboard (their length runs along it)
`VMSHOWROUTE`	Show Route — the route of the cables picked (or the whole circuit of one, Circuit) drawn as a 3D polyline on the temporary layer VM-TEMP, with its length; Clear removes them
`VMSUPPORTS`	hangers on the level straight pieces of cable routes, at the spacing of the series' catalogue (Support, every Per m) or one given; again on a piece, they replace those on its axis
`VMTRAY`	draws cable routes — trays, ladders, trunking or conduits — with bends, reducers and tees, as VMDUCT draws ductwork
`VMTRAYSECTION`	the cross-section of a cable route piece drawn at a point: its profile, the cables in it laid on its bottom, the fill against its limit and the list of cables
`VMTRAYSIZE`	changes the width or height of a cable tray run (its bends and the reducers to its neighbours made again), on both sides or the side clicked, keeping its bottom, axis or top

Schematics

`VMSCHEMA`	switchboard schematics from the circuits and the electrical calculation — one switchboard (Board), every one (All), or those drawn written again where they are (Update)
`VMSCHEMAEDIT`	Edit Circuit — a circuit picked on a switchboard schematic (its column or row) changed there: protection, rating, cable, phases, RCD, description; the plan's circuit takes it and the schematic is drawn again
`VMSCHEMASPARE`	Spare Circuits — the spare ways of a switchboard (how many, protection, rating, phases) shown after its circuits on its schematic

Circuit Designer

`VMCDAREA`	a device area (a location: +S1 cabinet, +FIELD…) drawn as a dash-dotted rectangle; the devices inside are in it in the lists
`VMCDBRIDGE`	a bridge (jumper) between two terminals of a strip: drawn beside them, one potential for both
`VMCDCABLE`	a control cable over the conductors picked (its cores) — its tag (W1…), type and marks; the lists give its cores' potentials
`VMCDCIRCUITPAGE`	Create Circuit Schematic — a control page for a switchboard circuit from a template (Dol: a direct on-line motor starter; Contactor), its devices tagged on, numbered and cross referenced
`VMCDCONTACTOR`	a contactor in one go — its coil (A1-A2), its three main contacts (1-2, 3-4, 5-6) and its auxiliary contacts (13-14, 21-22…) linked
`VMCDEDIT`	the Circuit Designer window — the devices' tags and pins (a tag changed on all its parts: a coil with its contacts, a strip's terminals) and the conductors' section and colour; on the command line a device picked
`VMCDERASE`	erases the devices picked — a coil's, breaker's or overload relay's contacts too on request, their mechanical links and bridges — and writes the numbers, references, strips and lists again
`VMCDMOVE`	moves a device to a point; the conductors on its pins follow (their corners kept square)
`VMCDNUMBER`	the potentials numbered (1, 2… by page, left to right, top to bottom; terminals and arrows of one name carry them on) and written on every conductor
`VMCDPAGE`	a page of a control circuit drawing — A3 frame, ten numbered columns, title block with its number and the switchboard circuit it controls
`VMCDPAGENUM`	the pages renumbered by their place (top to bottom, left to right) from a first number; the numbers, references and lists written again
`VMCDREPORT`	the lists of pages, devices, terminals (potential, inside, outside), conductors and cables; as CSV next to the drawing
`VMCDSTRIP`	a terminal strip drawn as a table — each terminal with its potential, what it goes to inside and outside (written again where it is)
`VMCDWIRE`	a conductor through points, its ends on the devices' pins (within 2.5 mm) or on the 5 mm grid
`VMCDWIREPROP`	the cross-section (mm²) and colour (BK, BU, BN, GNYE…) of the conductors picked; in the lists
`VMCDXREF`	cross references — under each coil its contacts with their place (13-14 /2.5), beside each contact its coil's place (/1.3), beside each arrow the places of its others

Calculation

`VMCONNECT`	joins two open ends of a system with standard parts (bends at the angle chosen, a reducer where the sizes differ)
`VMNODENUM`	the calculation's node numbers: Show them beside the parts selected, Hide them, Reset (numbered again at the next VMCALC)
`VMNODES`	links the connection nodes with the project's other drawings (List, Update: the flow and pressure beyond them; Disconnect)
`VMREPORT`	the calculation as an interactive report: sizes to change and apply, then calculated again

Annotation

`VMAUTOTEXT`	dimension texts placed automatically on the parts selected, after one or more formats
`VMEDITTEXT`	changes a free text (its words, look, under- and overlines) or a dimension text's options
`VMFREETEXT`	a free text (typed or from the project's templates) with a reference line and baseline; its layer can follow a part's system
`VMLABEL`	labels parts with system, size, flow and velocity; Update refreshes them
`VMLABELS`	the project's labels (identifiers given to parts in their Labels property): Add, Remove, List
`VMMARK`	a revision cloud or a construction boundary around an area, on the project's mark layers
`VMOPENENDS`	the open ends of the network shown as arrows on the drawing, or not
`VMPROPLINE`	a temporary text of chosen properties of the parts picked (cleared by VMCALC or VMPROPLINE Clear)
`VMTEXT`	dimension texts of parts (size, flow, codes…) after the project's formats, with reference lines; Update rewrites them
`VMTEXTFORMATS`	the dimension text formats of the project (per kind of part; the active one is what VMTEXT writes)
`VMTEXTREPLACE`	finds and replaces words in free texts, parts' tags / notes / classification and openings' notes and variables (selection, drawing or project)
`VMWIPEOUT`	adds or removes the wipeout under dimension and free texts (Add / Remove; ALL for every one)

Project & tools

`VMERASEPART`	erases one part, chosen among the parts at the point
`VMFILTERS`	the project's filters: systems, kinds of part and rules on the parts' properties (All / Any)
`VMINDEX`	running indexes, identifiers numbered by format (AT-001…): Place on parts, Edit (renumber, gaps and duplicates removed), Remove, Formats, List
`VMNODE`	closes an open end with a connection node (an ID) where the network goes on in another drawing
`VMNODEIMPORT`	creates here the connection nodes of the project's other drawings that lie on this storey (to draw on from them)
`VMOPENIMPORT`	the builder's status and feedback on openings read from a CSV file (ID; status; feedback)
`VMOPENINGS`	the openings of the project's drawings: list, zoom, CSV / Excel, delete
`VMSTOREY`	sets the active storey (heights are measured from its floor)