EVOLVE Mechanical Customer Ideas

Our products depend on your feedback. No idea is too small or too big, we want to know where to make improvements and what features mean the most to our end users. Our customers drive our road map, thanks for sharing!

Automate Sleeve Points

I'd like to be able to automate the placement of sleeve points as follows: * Select a single service or multiple services to place points on. * Select one or more ...
Suggested by: Kyle Speropoulos (27 Sep, '18) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Layout Points Sleeves

An option to place sleeves on all walls instead of picking wall types

An option to place sleeves on all walls instead of picking wall types
Suggested by: Anonymous (25 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Add Service Abbreviation to Sleeves

When placing a sleeve on a fabrication item we would like the service abbreviation to automatically fill out in a parameter.
Suggested by: Maggie Combs (29 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Need feature that automatically places sleeves

Suggested by: Brett Stacks (05 Sep, '18) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0

Sleeve Sticky Behavior

Sleeves need to maintain the same sticky behavior as hangers do on pipe/duct.
Suggested by: Kyle Speropoulos (02 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Planned (Added to Roadmap) Sleeves

Add Insert Size to Description of Hanger, Sleeves, Pads Control Points

Currently when I export my hangers from Revit to Cad (.maj) and run a fpointe command I receive a good description including a insert size with the size/type of ...
Suggested by: Chris Hansen (22 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 1

Proper Sleeve Outside Diameter (OD)

We need the sleeves to be the true outside dimension of either plastic or cast-iron pipe. The sleeve diameters for either of these type sleeves are not the true O.D. ...
Suggested by: John C Armstrong (19 May, '22) Upvoted: 12 Apr, '23 Comments: 1
Needs more information or votes Sleeves

The auto place sleeve function to include fittings.

I have rectangular duct elbows with long throats that go to the floor above. The auto sleeve will not put sleeves on these because they are fittings.
Suggested by: Anonymous (18 Aug, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 1
Needs more information or votes Sleeves

Sleeve for Steel

Need to locate beam penetrations and would love for the sleeve function to work on steel rather than just floors, walls and foundations.
Suggested by: Matt Lyons (26 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 13 Oct, '22 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Sleeves

Connector base sleeves sizes for Rectangular duct.

This would help have different size sleeve setting for different connectors i.e. s/d vs tdf.
Suggested by: Anonymous (13 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Add top and bottom elevation parameter to you rectangular sleeve to allow this to be easily tagged.

This would aid in the creation of a tag to show top and bottom elevation of my duct sleeves.
Suggested by: Steve Heathcote (26 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Sleeves

Automatic description for Wall and Floor Sleeves

Have the Description in the Point Manager fill with System Abbreviation and size for Rect and Round Floor and Wall sleeves.
Suggested by: Stephen Norcross (25 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 1

Point Manager Control Description

Though you can use bulk update to change descriptions of points, it would be helpful to be able to specify this beforehand. This could be implemented through a simple ...
Suggested by: James Simpson (06 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 1

Sleeve lengths from Point Manager

Would like to be able to export the sleeve lengths from the Point Manager.
Suggested by: Chris DeWeese (03 Apr, '23) Upvoted: 03 Apr, '23 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Layout Points Sleeves

Sleeves Lengthening through multiple wall & floor types

Our users have found that when using the sleeve tool where there are two wall types back to back (no space in between) or two floor types stacked onto of each other ...
Suggested by: Evan Pelfrey (14 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 14 Dec, '21 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Sleeves

element filter for sleeve tool

rather than only being able to set the rule to apply to pipe or all rectangular duct, being able to use the element filter, so you don't have to constant pay ...
Suggested by: Liz Fong (13 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Improve sleeve settings function - copy rule & host selection

1) Make it so you can copy existing rules to start a new rule. 2) allow for 'conditional' statements for selecting multiple host types. i.e. there are a billion wall ...
Suggested by: Liz Fong (13 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Add Beam penetration options to the sleeve tool.

Similar to deck and wall sleeves, beam penetrations are necessary. Don't think all the 'functionality' of drilling into the different types of structure are ...
Suggested by: Liz Fong (13 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Needs more information or votes Sleeves

Open the sleeve settings to more than just families with 'Sleeve' in the name

Cores and Openings are other things that could benefit from being inserted via the 'sleeve' tool. You can 'get' around this about adding 'sleeve' to any family name, ...
Suggested by: Liz Fong (08 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Pipe Material passed to Sleeve Parameter or 'element' filters' in sleeve settings.

There are times when we have to pass the 'material' of the pipe that is passing through the sleeve to the sleeve itself. During automated sleeve placement, the round ...
Suggested by: Liz Fong (06 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Done Sleeves

Pull down to add Sleeves

Need a pull down to add sleeves similar to Control/Layout points. Having to search project browser takes too much time.
Suggested by: Stephen Norcross (27 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '21 Comments: 0