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Pathfinder now supports you when creating room plans. Based on any floor plan, you can define a room section with a few clicks, and Pathfinder will automatically generate a room plan from the selected area. In the next step, you can display network devices and line connections in relation to their room.
Please select a floor plan first and right click on "use room borders". Now save these settings (lower left) and then switch to the design mode.
Select room borders and then switch to the design mode.
Once you select a room stamp, Pathfinder will generate an adaptable room section, which can bee customized. Mark the sections of interest by dragging the blue rectangle with the mouse.
Select room stamp and define room section.
You can add additional way points to create rooms with complex layouts.
Add additional way points.
Now click on "Save". You can open the new room plan created by Pathfinder with a double click.
Example for a room section plan.
Room stamps enable navigation from room to room, so you can easily switch between two rooms by clicking on the room stamp.
The following video tutorial also gives you a great overview over room section plans:
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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
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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 whether you want to allow repositioning and resizing for that room (3).
Click on Next to continue.
To import from a .DWG file, some attributes need to be defined on the AutoCAD file itself. This is required for Pathfinder to identify and retrieve the required fields. For more information, go to: Import from .DWG files.
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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 below.
Click on Completed to finish the importing process.
Background Design Options
To customize the floor background, right click to open 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 edit 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.