SprinkFlow School

Short videos and written step-by-step guides for everything SprinkFlow makes — from your first submittal to a full head layout in the Design Studio. Each lesson is a few minutes, and the written version covers the same steps if you'd rather read.

Every lesson has full written instructions today; videos are being recorded and added. Lessons marked Design Studio alpha cover our CAD program, which is early-access software included with a SprinkFlow Tools subscription.

Track A — SprinkFlow Tools

SprinkFlow Tools, the Windows desktop app: submittals, calc packages, and the PDF & CAD toolbox.

A1

Your first submittal in 5 minutes

New project, drop in your plans, and generate a clean bookmarked material data submittal.

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A2

The datasheet catalog

Search the built-in catalog, add your own cut sheets, and manage everything in the Material Catalog tab.

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A3

Covers, TOC and bookmarks

Pick from 13 cover templates, star favorites, and see how the hyperlinked TOC is built.

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A4

AI cut-sheet reading

What the cut-sheet reader fills in for you, and how to fix the occasional miss.

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A5

Hydraulic calc packages

Turn calc PDFs into a covered, indexed, bookmarked package.

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A6

PDF workspace: merge, compress, slip sheets

Combine sets, shrink file sizes, and slip revised sheets into a base set visually.

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A7

Vicinity maps

Address search, and the click-to-pin map when the address is too new for the map data.

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A8

PDF to CAD conversion

Convert plotted PDFs to DXF/DWG with real layers, weights, and colors tuned for AutoSPRINK.

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A9

DWG to PDF printing

Print layout sheets straight from DWG — sheet picker, xref checkboxes, model-space fallback.

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A10

Storage Hazard Analyzer

Commodity, arrangement, height in — every applicable NFPA 13 protection option out.

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A11

Hanger details & seismic bracing

Generate hanger details and run the seismic brace calculator with export-ready output.

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A12

Bid estimator & proposals

Labor and material pricing, markup, and a proposal PDF on your letterhead.

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Track B — Design Studio (Alpha)

SprinkFlow Design Studio, our sprinkler CAD program — in early alpha, with access included during the alpha for active SprinkFlow Tools subscribers. These lessons describe the alpha as it stands today; it changes most weeks. What alpha means →

B1

Design Studio: heads on a plan in 10 minutes

Install the alpha, import a background, scale it, and place coverage-checked heads.

Design Studio alpha
B2

Coverage cells & head arrays

Layout rectangles that fill themselves with correctly spaced heads.

Design Studio alpha
B3

Ceiling grid layouts

Per-room arrays placed in the ceiling grid with spacing rules respected.

Design Studio alpha
B4

Unit templates

Stamp repeating apartment units instead of laying out every one.

Design Studio alpha
B5

Backgrounds done right

PDF-as-CAD import with layer and color pickers, plus DWG references.

Design Studio alpha
B6

From heads to pipe

The guided auto-route workflow: mains, branch lines, and edits.

Design Studio alpha
B7

Hydraulic calcs in the studio

Demand, supply, and the calculation report — including residential design bases.

Design Studio alpha
B8

Elevation profiles & structure

Columns, beams and roof — then elevate the system to match.

Design Studio alpha

Questions while you learn? Ask in the SprinkFlow user community, or just try things — your work stays on your machine.

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