LESSON A5

Hydraulic calc packages

What you'll make: a hydraulic calculation package with a proper cover, hyperlinked index of every calc, and bookmarks — from the raw PDFs your calc software exports.

Video coming soon — the written steps below cover everything.

What goes in

The calc reports your design software already exports — AutoSPRINK, MEPCAD, and friends. Drop in one PDF per remote area, or a single merged export; SprinkFlow detects the individual calculation sections either way and splits the index accordingly.

Build the package

  1. Open the Hydraulic Calc Package tool and set the project details (they carry over if you've been working the same job).
  2. Drop in your calc PDFs. Each detected calculation shows with its description — the remote area, density, and demand it found in the report.
  3. Order them the way you want them indexed.
  4. Pick a cover (same gallery and starred favorites as submittals; calc covers omit the disclaimer block).
  5. Generate, choose where to save, and the finished PDF opens — with an Open PDF button on the status line as a backup.

What comes out

Pairs with the submittal: many AHJs want the material submittal and calcs together. Generate both, then staple them with the PDF workspace (lesson A6) — or send them as the two clean files they are.

Next lesson: A6 — PDF workspace: merge, compress, slip sheets

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