CYPEPLUMBING
2025.a Version
CYPEPLUMBING (new program)
CYPEPLUMBING combines the features of CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems, CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems and Open BIM Layout. These combined applications are organised in three tabs at the bottom of the CYPEPLUMBING main window: “Water Systems”, “Sanitary Systems” and “Layout”. Consequently, the CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems and CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems applications have been discontinued and will no longer be available in version 2025.a. However, older versions of these two programs can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform “Store”. The Open BIM Layout application will continue to be developed in version 2025.a, as it still centralises the creation of drawings for many other applications.
Water Systems and Sanitary Systems tabs
These tabs include the tools that allow users to enter and design water supply and wastewater and rainwater drainage systems, respectively. They are an improvement on the tools that were available in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems and CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems.
Each of these two tabs is organised into three other tabs located at the top of the main window (Installation, Diagrams and Bills of quantities). These three tabs were already available in CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems. CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems did not have a “Diagrams” tab, so users had to use the CYPEPLUMBING Schematics diagrams program to generate the diagrams of a water supply system. CYPEPLUMBING no longer needs to connect to another application to generate these diagrams.
Entering an element with associated consumption and discharge in either of the two tabs means that the discharge (Sanitary Systems) or consumption (Water Systems) is automatically included in the other tab. In previous versions, the Open BIM Water Equipment program (now discontinued in version 2025.a) was required for the discharge associated with these elements to be entered in CYPEPLUMBING Sanitary Systems and the consumption in CYPEPLUMBING Water Systems (using the Open BIM workflow).
- Layout tab
In this tab, users can create drawings composed of the two systems (water supply and water drainage) including the graphic information imported from other applications. Specific water supply and drainage tags (not available in the Open BIM Layout application) can also be assigned and placed together with the tags that users can create in a 3D view of the drawing.
Another CYPEPLUMBING improvement is the country selection when creating a job so that the application is automatically configured with the corresponding water supply and drainage standards.
Generating native Revit® elements from a structural IFC (new module from the Open BIM - Revit Plugin)
Version 2025.a of the “Open BIM – Revit Plugin” includes a new module that allows users to convert a structural model (included in a project on the BIMserver.center platform) into native Revit elements by assigning families. The options of this module are centralised in the “Extract contents of the link and assign it to families” option in Revit’s “Open BIM collaboration” menu.
To use the “Generation of native Revit elements based on a structural IFC” module, users must install the “Open BIM – Revit” plugin (which can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform) and have the necessary permissions in a separate CYPE license, which is purchased through an annual subscription.
As well as implementing this module, version 2025.a of the “Open BIM – Revit Plugin” is compatible with Revit versions 2021 to 2025.
More information about this new module can be found in the new feature “Generating native Revit elements based on a structural IFC“.
Concrete nodes (new CYPECAD module)
CYPECAD version 2025.a includes the new “Concrete nodes” module. With this module, CYPECAD can verify the seismic design requirements to be met by the beam-column nodes of reinforced concrete frames that are part of the seismic resistance system.
More information on how this module works can be found in CYPECAD’s new feature Checking the requirements for the seismic design of reinforced concrete nodes (new CYPECAD module).
