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MagiCAD 2025 is compatible with the new Autodesk AutoCAD 2025, as well as with the previous four AutoCAD versions 2021-2024, including the verticals AutoCAD MEP and AutoCAD Architecture.
You can now easily search for more information about a specific MagiCAD function during design work. Simply hover over a feature button and press the F1 key to open the corresponding section in the MagiCAD help manual.
DIALux evo is a comprehensive planning tool for lighting design. You can now import lighting plans from DIALux evo into MagiCAD in IFC format.
After opening the imported IFC file, MagiCAD users need to select which storey to add from the DIALux evo design and then map the luminaire types to corresponding ones in MagiCAD. After the storey selection and mapping, MagiCAD places the luminaires into the drawing according to elevation information from DIALUX evo. The correct storey for the luminaires in MagiCAD is automatically selected based on storey elevations and luminaires are automatically mapped to luminaire types in MagiCAD when their manufacturer names and article numbers match.
You can also simply update existing luminaires according to the data from DIALux evo, instead of creating an entirely new design each time. This makes it easy to edit the lighting design at later project stages.
MagiCAD 2024 UR-2 enabled the modelling of busbar trunking systems. The new version of MagiCAD adds calculation support for busbar trunking systems and makes their modelling easier.
Busbar trunking systems are now supported in both short circuit calculations and voltage drop calculations. In addition, you can define default branch lengths for busbar systems and fitting branch lengths are measured from end point centre to fitting centre, which makes design work and dimensioning much easier.
The new version introduces multiple improvements to bus system functions.
It is now possible to zoom to multiple devices from the Bus connections settings dialog. If the devices are not in the active drawing, their drawings are opened automatically. The selected devices are marked with an X and the drawings are centred on the devices.
A warning message is shown if you add devices to a bus circuit when they already belong to another bus circuit. You can then select whether to add them to the new circuit or leave them in the current one.
Bus host and bus circuit information can now be added to Object ID formats, allowing you to create unique identifiers for devices.
The machine learning algorithm for the Auto-Routing Underfloor Heating function has been improved. The function now takes better account of different room shapes, obstacles, and cold walls, resulting in quality layout suggestions for users.
You can now add national classification codes for various generic objects that are not part of the MagiCAD project file, such as generic manifolds in ventilation and piping projects and switchboards in electrical projects. The classification code is added during object installation.
It is now also possible to set national classification codes in the project file for provisions for builderswork openings and segment fittings.
Dry sprinkler systems are used when part of the sprinkler network is situated in conditions below the freezing point or above the boiling point of the sprinkler fluid. The dry part of the network is filled with air or nitrogen and separated from the rest of the network with a dry pipe valve. When the sprinklers operate in case of a fire, the pressure in the dry system decreases and the dry valve opens filling the section with water. An accelerator may also be used to speed up the release of air from the pipes.
Filling the empty network with water is a complex task. The movement of water is affected by many different factors, including water source properties, dry valve properties, network design, initial gas pressure, and sprinkler head properties. MagiCAD allows you to define all of the related factors and calculate an accurate water delivery time for the dry sprinkler system.
The label attributes in circuit drawing label blocks can now be linked to data in switchboard schematics. You can select in the Label text definition window if label attribute values are defined manually or according to a selected switchboard schematic property. You can also select if the attributes will be updated to the label block as well.
The source properties for circuit drawing labels can be saved into the circuit schematic page template. This enables you to automatically update switchboard schematic data into the circuit drawing label block when the circuit drawing is created, instead of linking the properties manually each time a new drawing is created.
MagiCAD Room calculations now support thermal bridges. Thermal bridges are areas of greater heat transfer in a building envelope, typically junctions between two or more building elements, such as the corners of a room or window and door frames. MagiCAD Room now takes into account the additional heat losses from thermal bridges in heat loss calculations.
The calculations can be done according to the National Building Code of Finland (2012) or by using a set percentage of the existing heat losses as an approximate value for the thermal bridge heat loss.
