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Help and how-to for SprinkFlow Design Studio — installing it, finding your way around, and working a job through the program. Start typing to filter.

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These pages describe the alpha as it stands today. Design Studio changes most weeks, so a menu may have moved by the time you read this — and a few things below are marked in progress because they are only half-landed. If something on screen disagrees with a page here, the app is right and the page is stale: press F12 in the Studio and tell us, or email us.
Getting started

Install & first launch

Getting the installer, the SmartScreen notice, and what happens the first time it opens.

Signing in & access

Why your SprinkFlow Tools account is the key, and what to do when sign-in doesn't unlock it.

Updating to the newest build

How weekly builds reach you, and how to get the current installer by hand.
Finding your way around

The workspace tour

Menus, toolbar rows, the side panel, and how to move the camera around a drawing.

Keyboard shortcuts & settings

The full default key map, how to rebind it, and where the program's settings live.

Lesson walkthroughs

SprinkFlow School's written lessons take the Studio workflow start to finish, in order.
Bringing in the job

Backgrounds & imports

DWG and PDF backgrounds, layer control, classification, and proving the scale is true.

3D models & coordination

IFC and 3D DWG models, clearance zones, and finding clashes before the field does.
Drawing

Snapping & drawing aids

Every snap, what the blue ring means, Tab to cycle, and the master switch when snaps fight you.

Drawing & editing

Lines and shapes, the modify tools, selecting things fast, and moving what you've drawn.

Sprinkler placement & coverage

Placing heads, Coverage Cells, ceiling-grid layouts, and reading the live coverage shading.

Unit fill & typical layouts

Lay out one apartment, then stamp it into every other one that matches.
Piping

Drawing pipe

Routing runs by hand, connecting heads, fittings and valves, and editing what you've drawn.

Auto Route Piping

The guided six-step flow: branch preview, elevations, cross main, riser — all previewed before it commits.

Hangers & seismic bracing

Generating hangers at code spacing, sway bracing with live calcs, and the obstruction rules.
Structure & annotation

Structure & elevations

Columns, beams, joists, roof planes, and getting the whole system to the right height.

Annotation & dimensions

Dimensions, leaders, text, callouts, revision clouds, hatching and room nameplates.
Checking the design

Hydraulic calculations

Water supply, remote areas, which heads flow, running the numbers and printing the calc.

Analysis, compliance & takeoff

The issues list, clash results, quantities, cut lists and estimating.
Getting it out

Sheets, viewports & plotting

Paper space, title blocks, viewports linked to callouts, and plotting to PDF.

Export & AutoSPRINK handoff

DWG and DXF export, what survives the trip, and getting a drawing into AutoSPRINK cleanly.
When something goes wrong

Reporting a bug with F12

What the one-key report captures, what makes a report useful, and what happens after you send it.

Crashes & recovery

Getting your work back, and what to send when the program stops.

What alpha means

What to expect from early-access software, what testers get, and the no-warranty framing.

Prefer a walkthrough? The written lessons in SprinkFlow School take the Studio workflow start to finish, in order.

Browse the lessons