Planning assets · Beginner · 0:49
Model 800 mm and 1,000 mm airlock chambers
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British male AI narration · English captions · Fictional demonstration project
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.
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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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