SprinkCAD — strengths
- Deep Tyco product catalogue
- Integrated hydraulics
- Mature workflow
SprinkCAD — limitations
- Vendor lock-in to Tyco / JCI catalogue
- Manual layout
- NFPA-focused
Where FireTwin AI is different
Where SprinkCAD 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