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Plumbing · sanitary, drainage & water

Toilets, drainage and water,
connected in one command.

Place the fixtures, draw the collectors at a fall and the water mains, then connect everything at once: each drain goes into the wall, down through the slab and across to its collector; the cold and hot water to their mains. The drainage is calculated after EN 12056-2.

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The toilets' drainage in realistic 3D: WCs, washbasins, shower trays and bathtub with their drains, the collectors at a fall, the stack and the building drain
Fixtures, collectors at a fall, the stack and the building drain — VM V&P tab

Every kind of fixture

Wall-hung and floor-standing WCs, washbasins, shower trays, bathtubs, floor drains with vertical or side outlets, linear shower drains, gullies, hot water cylinders.

One command connects them

VMSANCONNECT pipes each drain into the wall and down through the slab to its collector at the fall you choose, and the water to its mains.

Drainage after EN 12056-2

Discharge units added down every pipe, the flow with the frequency factor, filling, velocity, capacity and the advised size.

Ladies', gents' and showers

The first floor's toilets: wall-hung WCs back to back on one partition, a floor-standing WC, washbasins, two shower trays, a bathtub and a linear drain — each with its drain and its water.

WCs and washbasins in realistic 3D with their drains dropping into the collectors and their water pipes
WCs and washbasins with their drains and water
Shower trays, bathtub and washbasin in realistic 3D with their drains and the linear drain
Showers, bathtub and the linear drain

Water and the plan

Cold water from the main and hot water from the cylinder in the plant room's ceiling, rising into every fixture; and the same toilets in plan with fixtures, drains and pipes over the walls.

Cold and hot water pipes in 3D from the hot water cylinder to every fixture
Cold and hot water from the cylinder to every fixture
Toilets in plan: WCs, washbasins, showers and bathtub with their drains and water pipes over the partitions
The toilets in plan

The drainage calculation

VMDRAINCALC follows the discharge units from every fixture down to the outlet: each pipe's flow, what it carries at its fall, how full it runs and how fast — and the size it needs.

The drainage calculation window over the toilets: each pipe's fixtures, discharge units, flow, capacity, filling and velocity
VMDRAINCALC: every pipe checked after EN 12056-2

What it does

Fixtures

  • Wall-hung (concealed cistern) and floor-standing WCs
  • Washbasins, shower trays, bathtubs
  • Floor drains (vertical or side outlet), linear drains, gullies
  • Hot water cylinders; generic products with their sizes

Drainage

  • PP-HT drainage pipes drawn at a fall (Down / Up)
  • Branches off a sloped collector keep the fall
  • Stacks and building drains
  • Cleaning covers, openings through slabs

Water

  • Cold, hot and circulation water on copper, PE-X, multilayer, PP-R
  • Several pipes side by side in one pass
  • Fixtures connected to the mains of their storey
  • Labels, flow arrows, bill of materials

Calculation

  • EN 12056-2 discharge units and frequency factor
  • Pipe capacity (Colebrook), filling and velocity
  • Branch, collecting pipe and stack checks
  • Advised sizes and a CSV report

The commands

  1. 1VMINSTALL

    Place WCs, washbasins, showers, bathtubs, drains and cylinders.

  2. 2VMPIPEDR · sLope

    Draw the collectors and stacks at a fall.

  3. 3VMPIPECW · VMPIPEHW

    Draw the cold and hot water mains.

  4. 4VMSANCONNECT

    Connect every fixture's drain and water at once.

  5. 5VMDRAINCALC

    Calculate the drainage and see the sizes it needs.

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