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MagiCreate User guide

MagiCreate is an easy-to-use tool for advanced modelling of MEP products and components.
This user guide describes the main functions of the modelling tool.

With MagiCreate, MagiCAD users can create tailored databases, model completely new
products and modify existing ones by editing product properties, dimensions and technical
data.

All databases and products created with MagiCreate are supported by MagiCAD for
AutoCAD and MagiCAD for Revit from the version 2014.11 onwards.

MagiCreate can be downloaded and installed from the Tools section of the MagiCAD
Download Portal:
https://portal.magicad.com/Download/GetProductCategoryList?categoryId=6

Contents of the guide

Starting MagiCreate........................................................................................................... 2
MagiCreate menu .............................................................................................................. 3
Database defaults .............................................................................................................. 4
Adding new products to a selected database ..................................................................... 5
Switching to another database ........................................................................................... 8
Advanced product-specific data ......................................................................................... 9
Advanced variant-specific data ........................................................................................ 10
Creating products without using templates ....................................................................... 11

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Starting MagiCreate
When starting MagiCreate, you can select one of the following two options:

1. Create a new database by clicking the CREATE NEW button.

2. Open an existing, previously-edited database by selecting one of the quick links

displayed in the Open recent database list, or browse for another database by
clicking the OPEN ANOTHER DATABASE button.

2. Select an
existing database
using the quick
links, or browse
for another one
by clicking the
OPEN ANOTHER
DATABASE
button.

1. Click the
CREATE NEW
button to create
a new database.

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MagiCreate menu
This section describes the items and functionality of the MagiCreate main menu.

To open the menu,

click the menu button
in the upper left
corner of the main
window.

The main menu displays the following options.

To create a new To save a currently open

database, select database with a new name,
New database. select Save as.

To view and edit database

default settings, select Change
The main menu
Defaults. The Database
also displays a
Defaults dialog opens (see
quick-selection list
section Database defaults for
of the most recently
details).
opened databases.
To open a recently
edited database,
select the database
from the list.
To exit the program,
select Exit.

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Database defaults
In the Database Defaults dialog, the user can view and edit general database properties and
make changes to database default settings.

The Manufacturer field defines the name The Website field defines a web address
of the database (e.g. manufacturer brand (e.g. company website) from which the
name or company name). The database user viewing the manufacturers product
will catalogued under this name in the database in the MagiCAD Product Browser
MagiCAD Product Browser, Bills of can find additional product information and
Materials, etc. contact details.

The Use templates with

The Password new products checkbox
field allows you must be selected if you
to protect the want to use generic
database from products as templates for
modifications new products. Deselect
and further this option if you want to
editing using a create a new product
password. based on existing 3D
geometry.
The Default language control selects The User interface
the default language for displaying user- language control defines
defined product description texts when the language of the
multiple language versions have been
MagiCreate user
defined.
interface.
This default language selection is always
visible on the Description field of
products and variants (see below).

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Adding new products to a selected database

Creating a new product to a selected database requires you to carry out the following three
steps:
1. First select a product category (e.g. Piping, Electrical, etc.)
2. Then select the product group (e.g. Fan coil units, Pumps, etc.)
3. And finally click the CREATE NEW button.

A new product is added to the database.

1. Select a product 2. Select a product

category group

3. Click the CREATE

NEW button.

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After clicking the CREATE NEW button, the Product Browser window will open. In the
Product Browser window, you can select an existing generic product as a template for the
new product.

You can select which content and

product variants you want to
include in the product template.
You can also leave out all variants
by not selecting any. After
selecting the content to be
included in the template, click OK.

Clicking OK adds the product and the selected variants into the database.

The product is added to

the database with the
selected variants.

Please note that if

no variants were included
in the product template,
MagiCreate automatically
adds one variant using
a default variant name.

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Viewing and modifying existing products

To view and edit a product, select the product or one of its variants. Most of the technical
data is variant-specific and can only be accessed by selecting the variant.

To remove a variant, The SAVE button is only

select the variant and The Code field allows enabled if the latest
click the DELETE you to modify the modifications have not
button. variant name. yet been saved.

Select a variant
to view and
access its
properties.

The dimensions of the variant can be

modified by editing the values in this
table. For optional and more advanced
technical data modifications, please
see section Advanced variant-
specific data.

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Switching to another database

You can switch to another database without closing the program.

Click the CHANGE button

and select another database.

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Advanced product-specific data

On the product level, a product has certain general properties which are shared by all of the
products variants.

To access
advanced product-
specific data,
click the +/- button.

To define product-specific description

texts in multiple different language
versions, click the MORE button to
open the Descriptions dialog.

Click the link Market area

codes and websites to
define different product
codes and websites for
different market areas.

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Advanced variant-specific data

Most of the technical data is variant-specific and can only be defined and modified on the
variant level. The optional technical data varies between different product types.

Below you can see an example of the technical data contained by a fan coil variant.

The selected fan coil variant has both heating

and cooling properties. By selecting the
relevant tab, you can edit the variants heating
and cooling properties.

This control allows you to These controls allow you to define

modify pressure drop data. maximum and minimum values for
The pressure drop curve in the diagram above.
the diagram above will be
updated accordingly.

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Creating products without using templates

To create a new product without using an existing template as a basis, carry out the following
three steps:
1. First deselect the Use templates with new products checkbox in the Database
defaults dialog and click OK.
2. Then click the CREATE NEW button and select PRODUCT from the drop-down
options.
3. And finally select a suitable 3D geometry from the list of 3D geometries found in the
current database.

1. Deselect the Use

templates with new
products checkbox to create
a new product based on
existing 3D geometry. Click
OK.

2. Click the CREATE NEW button

and select PRODUCT from the drop-
down options.

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When PRODUCT is selected from the CREATE NEW drop-down options, the Select 3D
geometry window opens.

To add a new 3D geometry into the current

database from the MagiCAD Product
Browser, click the ADD FROM BROWSER
button.

3. Select a 3D geometry from the list of

3D geometries found in the current
database.

Select a suitable 3D geometry and click OK.

MagiCreate displays the new product with one automatically created variant. Since only the
3D geometry data exists, the user must enter all other relevant product and variant-specific
data manually.

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