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This pages describes the floor plan design options in Pathfinder.

You can design the floor plan similar to the map and building plan.

The context menu and design mode provides various options to customize the rooms and background of your floorsbasis for exact documentation of the location of network devices are room plans. Here the user can insert data outlets, port numbers or devices like printers and PCs. Detailed room displays of IT and server rooms are also very important for a complete network documentation.

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Floor Design

In the floor view you can add rooms to the floor and cables or trays to the rooms.

You can edit your room perimeters in design mode by enabling the Room limit active.

You can use the View & Format and Background options from the context menu similar to the map plan and for buildings.

For floor designs is particular, you can add a .DWG AutoCAD file as the background image by loading a file or link.

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Using .DWG files as the floor plan backgrounds allows you to import rooms into your design directly from the file using the Import from DWG background option.

Import from DWG

In the Import from DWG background dialog window, select your parameters for importing the rooms to define the background color, group distance and threshold. You can also choose to select multiple layers of the file and more.

On the floor plan display, select the text that identifies the room properties (1).

Configure the properties you want to import from the selection here (2).

Choose which rooms you want to import and where you want to allow repositioning and resizing for that room (3).

Click on Next to continue.

In the next window, click on Import from background (1) to start importing room according to your set criteria into the floor plan.

You can view your imported rooms here (2).

Click on Completed to finish the importing process.

Background Design Options

To customize the floor background, go to the context menu and select options in background.

Here, you can define the transparency of the background, select greyscale and antialiasing options.

You can also select the layout and layers for the .DWG you want to be displayed for your background.

You can also customize the color of the different layers. Click on OK to save your changes.

Room Limits

Once you have created you rooms, you can load a background image for your room or use the floor plan background of the room’s perimeters as room background.

Enable room limit active and enter design mode. Select the room you want to set the perimeters of and drag the blue rectangle edges to set the room limitedit and Pathfinder will generate an adaptable room segment, which can be customized. click and drag the anchors to fit the segment to the chosen room.

If you drag a corner while holding Shift the rectangle will resize proportionally.
You can relocate the room segment by relocating the room stamp as well.

Additional waypoints can also be added via right click, to create more complex shapes.

Click on Save to confirm your changes.


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The basis for exact documentation of the location of network devices are room plans, where the user can insert data outlets, port numbers or devices like printers and PCs. Detailled room displays of IT and server rooms are also very important for a complete network documentation.

Pathfinder supports you when creating room plans. Based on any floor plan, you can define a room segment with a few clicks and Pathfinder will automatically generate a room plan for the selected area. Afterwards you can display network devices and line connections in relation to their room. 

First enter a floor plan and select Room limit active in the context menu (right click). Now save these settings (lower left corner) and then switch to the design mode.



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After selecting a room stamp, Pathfinder will generate an adaptable room segment, which can be customized. Use the mouse to fit the segment to the chosen room.

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If you drag a corner while holding Shift the rectangle will resize proportionally.
You can relocate the room segment by relocating the room stamp using drag&drop.

Additional waypoints can be added via right click, to depict more complex shapes.

Once you are done click on Save. Double click the room stamp to enter the room.



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You can easily switch between two rooms by double clicking another room stamp.