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Model 800 mm and 1,000 mm airlock chambers

Enter a custom chamber size and compare its footprint with a 1,000 mm model.

Before you start: A placed straight airlock in a training project.

British male AI narration · English captions · Fictional demonstration project

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0:00Compare chamber sizes

This example compares eight hundred millimetre and one metre airlock chambers in a drawing. Use the dimensions specified for your equipment and project. We will start with a straight, three-stage model.

0:13Enter the custom width

Select the straight airlock and find Width in its dimensions. Change one thousand to eight hundred millimetres. For this straight run, the width is also the size of each square chamber.

0:24Read the updated footprint

The three-stage run now measures eight hundred by two thousand four hundred millimetres. Its length updates with the square chambers. Compare that with the original one metre by three metre footprint.

0:35Keep the size when turning

Choose Dogleg left. Each chamber stays eight hundred millimetres wide. Two chambers now span one thousand six hundred millimetres, giving this layout a square footprint. Switch to three D to inspect the result.

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