It could drop and someone could get hurt, so the smaller 135-pound combination is much more manageable. “Trying to lift a combination…off the truck into an opening is dangerous. “Also, more importantly, it’s much safer,” Berg said. You can request a Demo for 32 or 64 bit LINUX systems using the DEMO REQUEST tab. Intersect two or more pipes of.different sizes and at different angles. Do Copes, Birdmouths,Miter or Flat cutoffs. Design simple or complex pipe joints in 3D inside SheetCAM with this plug-in. “Because this is a clip-mull system, we’re able to run a continuous string of windows-a ribbon of windows, if you will-as far as you want, because each of those windows joined to the rough opening at the mull location.”Īccording to an Andersen survey, 69% of 156 builders and/or general contractors in a 2018 survey stated they could reduce the number of installers by 50%, using the Easy Connect Joining System when comparing the installation of a 12-ft wide x 8-ft-high pre-assembled window combination unit with four individual 3-ft wide x 8-ft high window combination units. PipeFit Plug-in Standalone Software License. “This allows us to mull large combinations right in the opening with a clip joining system,” said Steve Berg, technical marketing manager at Andersen Windows, from the company’s booth at IBS. This, the company states, facilitates the installation process and improves builders’ safety.Īs an example, an 8-ft x 12-ft window combination (consisting of eight individual units), with a fully joined weight of approximately 540 pounds (using standard glass), can be delivered to a job site in four combinations of two units-each weighing 135 pounds.

'The competition was fierce, but these winners truly represent the best of the best in terms of innovation, design and functionality of the products going into today's homes.'Īndersen Windows’ Easy Connect Joining System, which was launched in May 2018, enables large window and door combinations to be pieced together by smaller combinations at the job site. 'Judges evaluated an impressive array of more than 300 product entries in nine categories up for consideration for this year's Best of IBS Awards,' Buddy Hughes, NAHB conventions and meetings committee chairman, stated in a news release.

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