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A location in Pathfinder is a defined geographical area, e.g. an industry park, company site or university campus. You can allocate any number of buildings containing floors and rooms to a location and also manage several locations at a time. At the upper left corner of the initial screen you find an overview of all your locations.

Add a location, building, floor, rooms and control cabinets

You can add a location with "add location" in the infrastructure section. Enter a name and short description as well as the address. The new location will appear on the initial screen when you have entered your data and pressed "apply".

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^{Add a location}

Now you can change the appearance of the location by importing floor plans from AutoCAD or other image file (.jpg, .gif) by right clicking on "background" -> "load".

 Please refer to our video tutorial as well:

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^{Import AutoCAD-file}

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^{Floor plan with room stamps}

Click right on your location to add a new building. Customize the size and color and move by drag & drop. 

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^{Add new building}

Right click on the building to add new floors.

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^{Add new floors}

Right click on the floor to add new rooms.

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^{Add new rooms}

Right click on the room to add new control cabinets.

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^{Add control cabinets}

You can delete every object in the context menu.

Click on the paper clip to add documents like excel tables, drawings or word files.

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^{Add documents by clicking on the paper clip}

To change the appearance of objects, e.g. their size, transparancy and color, right click on "view & format", then "layout", from the drop-down menu.

A dialog will open which allows you to change the layout of your object.

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^{Go to the layout dialog}

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^{Edit layout}

There is also a step-by-step instruction in this video tutorial:

Document to scale

Click on the scale bar to open a window for to scale documentation. Use the mouse to draw a line along a line of known length, e.g. a building front, and enter the length in field 1. Alternatively, you can enter the scaling factor in field 2.

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^{Define the scale by drawing a line of known length or entering the scaling factor}

You can find a detailled instruction in this video:

The right click enables you to access all functions of the assistant directly from the application, so that you do not have to open any wizard from the menu.

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