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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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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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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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Right click on the floor to add new rooms.

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Right click on the room to add new control cabinets.

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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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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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This page describes the most common properties of locations and infrastructures in Pathfinder.

Select the Add Location option from the infrastructure section.

You can fill in the fields to create properties for your location and building infrastructures.

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To create a new location, click on the navigation icon (1) on the sidebar (Alt + N). Click the add location, building, floor or room button icon and select Location (2) from the drop down menu.

Fill out the information for your new location (3) and select OK to add your location on the map.

You can also attach files belonging to the nested location directly to it via the Documents tab.

You can create and manage buildings, rooms, floors and components in a similar way as well.

For more information on location design management, go to: Map View Design Mode

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The location properties consist of the following fields:

Name: Name your location.

Short name: Create a short name to quickly find your location.

Description: Write a description about the location.

Street: The street address of your location.

ZIP code: The postal code of your location.

City: The name of the city your location is in.

Latitude: Your location’s geographical position (Lat).

Longitude: You location’s geographical position (Long).

View mode: Choose between three options.

• View your buildings on the OpenStreetMap only.

• View your buildings on a custom background only.

• Both.

URL: Attach a weblink.

External Ref no.: Add an external reference number.

Bookmark: Shareable bookmark link for browsers.

Documents: This field has an extended menu which allows adding and deleting flies and documents .

Permissions: Create read and Write authorization for users.

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Once you have created a location, you can add a building in that location.

From the create new location window, click on the add building button (1) to add a building. Click on OK to finish. This step can be repeated in the next window for creating buildings to create a floor and so on until a cabinet, rack or component has been placed inside a room.

You can view the nested building infrastructure here (2). Double click on a building name to open its properties.

You can also upload documents from the Documents tab, review the history and scan the barcode to print the label for this location.

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⬅ Component Instances

Buildings➡