HydraCAD — strengths
- Built for sprinkler engineers
- Integrated hydraulics
- NFPA 13 focus
HydraCAD — limitations
- NFPA-centric — EN 12845 support limited
- Windows-only
- Manual layout, no AI generation
Where FireTwin AI is different
Where HydraCAD treats sprinkler design as a drafting problem, FireTwin AI treats it as a generation-and-verification problem. The engineer provides the building geometry, occupancy and hazard class; the system proposes a compliant layout, runs the hydraulic calculation, and flags every EN 12845 or NFPA 13 rule that fails before the design leaves the screen.
- Layout generated from geometry in seconds — not hours per floor
- Standards encoded — every change re-verified live
- Inline hydraulic calculation — no separate calculator
- Priced BOM generated from the live model