Zones

Zones can be defined in a building. They are groups of several rooms. You can use zones to represent ownership, to design heating or air conditioning systems, to visualise areas with different acoustic requirements, etc.

Zone groups
You classify rooms on a building in many ways. As for the ownership you can differentiate between tenants, if you would like to deal with air condition it is possible to define zones based on the required cooling and heating systems.

Groups and priorities
You can sort zones into several groups, if necessary. For zone groups you can define high or low priorities. Priorities are taken into consideration while calculating zone areas and volumes. If you use zone group priorities in a zone group, zone areas are extended by the thickness of the surrounding wall and slab structures according to the following figure:

Colours
Finally you can define zones and add rooms to them. In a zone group every room can be added to one zone. Zones can be visualised by a unique zone colour.

Managing zones

Zones are displayed in tree structure in Project Navigator. You can expand or collapse branches by clicking the +/- signs in front of the tree objects. By clicking on an object you can rename it.

By clicking on an object with the right mouse button a Local pop menu appears and you can select a command in it. Below you can learn about local pop menus of different tree objects.

Zones (main tree object)
Create new zone group
A new zone group is added to the tree, with a default name. You can rename it by clicking on its name with the left mouse button.
Show zones with colours
Rooms will appear with zone colours of the active zone group.
Hide colours
Rooms will appear as empty polygons.
Rename
It renames the current zone group.
Priorities and colours
The Priorities and colours dialog appears, here you can set the colours of the zones and the priorities of the zone groups.

Delete
Deletes the current zone group.

Zone groups
Activate
It activates the current zone group. Area calculation and zone colouring is based always on the active group.
Create new zone group
A new zone group is added to the tree, with a default name. You can rename it by clicking on its name with the left mouse button.
Rename
It renames the current zone group.
Priorities and colours
The Priorities and colours dialog appears, here you can set the colours of the zones and the priorities of the zone groups.
Delete
Deletes the current zone group.

Default (Uncategorized rooms)
Add rooms to this zone
Select rooms on the floor plan and then press ENTER. The rooms are moved to the uncategorized zone.

Zone group
Create new zone
A new zone is added to the tree, with a default name. You can rename it by clicking on its name with the left mouse button.
Rename
Renames the current zone group.
Priorities and colours
The Priorities and colours dialog appears, here you can set the colours of the zones and the priorities of the zone groups.
Delete
Deletes the current zone group.

Zone

Add rooms to this zone
Select rooms on the floor plan and then press ENTER. The rooms are moved to the current zone.
Rename
Renames the current zone.
Priorities and colours
The Priorities and colours dialog appears, here you can set the colours of the zones and the priorities of the zone groups.
Delete
Deletes the current zone.
Room

Show on floor plan
Selects the room on the floor plan.
Rename
Renames the current room.
Room properties
Opens the Properties dialog of the selected room.
Remove from zone
The room is moved to the default (uncategorized) zone group.