Predict and Optimize Building Equipment Performance. Design with Confidence.

In today’s competitive market place it’s imperative that your HVAC products are efficient, reliable, and cost effective.

Your customers demand maximum energy efficiencies at both the component and HVAC system level to meet the appropriate certifications. However, optimizing your HVAC designs can be both time consuming and expensive when design validation is limited to physical prototypes or external analysts.

The key challenges are to:

• Reduce design verification cost and testing time (physical prototyping)
• Reduce the cost of goods sold / bill of materials (raw material costs)
• Reduce field maintenance or warranty costs (risks)
• Reduce or eliminate outsourcing costs (fabrication of physical prototypes or simulation consulting services)
• Increase product sales through faster time to market and superior product performance (be first and best)

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Learn how HVAC manufacturers are using Digital Prototyping and simulation to rapidly develop and validate more efficient, fully compliant product designs.

Webcasts and Videos

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White Papers

	CIMdata: Autodesk’s Digital Prototyping for Manufacturing Program (pdf - 148Kb)
	Gaining Competitive Advantage by Using Digital Prototyping to Support Building Information Modeling (pdf - 736Kb)

Brochures

	Autodesk for the Building Products and Fabrication Industry (pdf - 1211Kb)
	Autodesk Simulation CFD (pdf - 3832Kb)
	Autodesk Simulation CFD Advanced (pdf - 3011Kb)
	Autodesk Building Products Manufacturers iPDF (pdf - 2582Kb)

Customer Stories

Design more efficient, more profitable HVAC systems and products with Digital Prototyping software from Autodesk. Give your mechanical engineers the CAD-centric simulation technology to explore, optimize, and validate new 3D product concepts with confidence.

Overcome Design and Performance Barriers

• Quickly overcome common design challenges.
• Balance airflow without increasing pressure loss.
• Maximize noise reduction by simulating the detailed effects of blowers, fans, and heat exchangers.

Optimize Designs Rapidly

• Use design time more productively. Spend more time optimizing designs and waste less on the complexities of setting up an analysis.
• Innovate without engineers running to the lab for physical testing.
• Create and try design variation digitally in your native CAD system.
• Run an associatively linked analysis in Autodesk® Simulation CFD software. Extract and compare specific critical values in designs through both 3D visualization and complete data sets.

Simulate Variables for Performance

• Simulate and evaluate the performance of system-level blowers, valves, filter media, and fans.
• Quickly gain insight on the different positioning of vanes and baffles in mixing boxes for commercial, residential, automotive, and engineered comfort systems.
• Explore a range of possibilities simultaneously using your native geometry to reach the optimal design.

Find out more about Autodesk’s range of Digital Prototyping and simulation software for HVAC and building equipment:

Autodesk® Simulation® CFD
Computational fluid dynamics tools for fluid flow and thermal simulations.

Autodesk® Product Design Suite
Design, visualization, and simulation software for your entire product design workflow.