Insulation Parameters

A design element in the Design Database (DB) refers to a main Catalog Component (indirectly) via its Specification Reference (SPREF) attribute. The design element may also refer to a second Catalog Component which defines the insulation of the first Component, via its Insulation Specification (ISPEC) attribute. The second Component is the Insulation Component of the design element.

Insulation parameters (IPARAM) allow the main Component to take dimensions from the Insulation Component. When the main Component uses IPARAM 3, for example, it picks up the value of the PARAM 3 of the corresponding Insulation Component.

When you define a Catalog Component using insulation parameters, its dimensions are not completely specified in the Catalog. So that Paragon can give some idea of what the Component will look like when used in a design, you can define specimen values for the insulation parameters. These specimen values apply to all Components, unlike the component parameters which are attributes of a particular Component. The values are set using the MODEL SETTINGS command. For example,

MODEL SETTINGS IPARAM 3 25

defines a specimen value for insulation parameter number 3. Refer to Setting Obstruction and Insulation Representation for the full syntax of how to set values for insulation parameters. The values are not stored in the Catalog DB; they are set up only for the current Paragon session.