New Water Supply Tool with CAD & PDF Export

We're excited to share updates on the second-most popular tool in the MeyerFire arsenal - the Water Supply Analysis. They've been a long time coming.

WHAT'S NEW 
CLEAN PDF REPORTING
Tired of snippets and half-hazard reports? We are, too. One-click print can export into a clean PDF report. Adjust your margins to 'minimal' if you have extra pages.

EXPORT THE GRAPH TO CAD & IMAGES
How many times has someone asked to just get a simple log chart result for a report? Now you can do so instantly. Print the entire report to PDF, or simply export just the log N^1.85 graph and use as you'd need with one click.

Cleaner PDF Reports

MULTI-FLOWING HYDRANTS
Flowing multiple hydrants? Convert pitot-to-flow or just use a straight flow override to sum multiple flowing hydrants.

The 'override' will take a simple flow input, or the Pitot information will do the conversion for you.

Now record results from multiple flowing hydrants

MULTIPLE DEMANDS
Have multiple calculations - like different systems or design areas? Now you can input multiple system demands and compare them to the same water supply.

One curve compared against multiple system demands

EXPORT TO CAD
Exporting water supply information to CAD can make summarizing system demands and water supplies much quicker and easier - but more importantly - it could allow the calculated information to live with the documents.

Results that live on the documents forever are far less likely to be lost with time, and could save owners thousands of dollars in expensive re-calcs to complete future placard information. Personally, not having access to prior hydraulic calcs or historical water supply results is easily one of the most frustrating aspects of design when there are renovations or tenant changes years later.​

Export the results to CAD, instantly.

BETTER DOCUMENTATION
Now capture not just a description of the test location, but hydrant locations (such as coordinates from Google Maps) and elevations.

METRIC
We have a native metric support embedded into the main tool. Use one toggle to flip to SI units at anytime.

INSTANT FIRE FLOW & DEMAND COMPARISON
Each test will show estimated Fire Flow and safety margin compared to a system demand.

For our Toolkit and MeyerFire University users, we've added one more big one:

MULTI-FLOW-TEST COMPARISON (PAID FEATURE)
Take historical data and chart them on the same water supply curves. Compare multiple tests to multiple system demands, and see them all in one snapshot and one report.

This is a really powerful feature for historical comparisons on water supplies, comparing new versus old flow tests, comparing hydraulic placard demands versus new water supply data, comparing multiple placard demands versus multiple flow tests, to summarize a whole package of calculations, and more. Many applications here.

These can all be exported to image, PDF, or CAD in the same way.

Now compare multiple system demands to multiple flow tests in one snapshot.

THE WHY
A prototypical two-hydrant flow test, at one point in time, and compared to one system demand, might cover a majority of cases. 

But to go deeper or understand the time component of water supply change, or compare behavior of one supply across multiple calculations, we need a tool that can handle that. We want our recommendations and calculations to be more transparent, more defensible, and easier to explain. 

I'm excited to finally bring this to life. They're live right now:

WATER SUPPLY ANALYSIS (FREE VERSION)

WATER SUPPLY ANALYSIS (toolkit users)

WATER SUPPLY ANALYSIS (university users)

These tools have long been one of the ways we hope to positively contribute to the industry by providing meaningful resources that are relevant to you. I hope you find them helpful.

​- Joe