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FireTwin AI vs MagiCAD

Glodon's MEP plugin for Revit and AutoCAD, widely used in Europe for sprinkler design.

MagiCAD — strengths

  • Strong European product database
  • Revit-native
  • Integrated calculations

MagiCAD — limitations

  • Requires Revit or AutoCAD license
  • Manual layout
  • Per-seat cost stacks up

Where FireTwin AI is different

Where MagiCAD 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

Design it in FireTwin AI

Generate a compliant sprinkler layout, run the hydraulic calculation and export a priced bill of materials — checked against EN 12845 and NFPA 13.

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