Preparation of building structure - Rooms layout

Product	InstalSystem 5
Type of article	FUNCTION AND TOOL
Source for translation	2022-02-16

Description

Rooms layout consists of manually entered Room components which together with the storey data make up the building structure. Building structure design based on the rooms layout should be selected when:

• the room thermal load is determined on an indicative basis
• the user specifies the thermal load.

A design made using a building structure based on polyhedral cubicles (without the use of structural components such as walls, slabs or roofs) is a good way to significantly reduce working time when there is no need to make thermal load calculations based on standards.

Location in program

Storeys management

• Storeys management can be found in the General data window, section Building and surroundings.
  

  1. Storeys management.
  
  

Room data

• Room data can be found in the General data window, section Building and surroundings.
  
  

  2. Room data.
  
  

Room

• The icon used for placing a Room is on the Main tools bar, section Construction, when the Construction scope is enabled.
  

  3. Room component.
  
  

Examples of use

Creating a storey

In the Storeys management section information on the building location can be entered:

• Average building depression
• Ground elevation

as well as the major Storey data:

• Position
• Storey elevation
• Storey height
• Upper slab thickness
• Lower slab thickness

For more information, see: Preparation of building structure - Storeys.

Underlay

Underlay is a two-dimensional (flat) graphical object extracted from a raster or vector file. Underlay in itself does not provide any components of the building structure, but it allows for their manual creation in agreement with reality.
For more information, see: Import underlay files.

Inserting a room

There are two methods of inserting a room into the design:

• by outlining the room edges

• by drawing a room diagonal

Tips:

• When inserting multiple rooms, enabling the REP function (F5) will facilitate work.
• To insert a Room by drawing a diagonal it is necessary to disable the ORTO function.

Creating multi-storey rooms

For more information, see: Preparation of building structure - Multi storey rooms.

Specifying room data

Room data

Section Room data in the General data window contains the most important Room parameters, which are passed onto the components placed in the design. The following parameters are defined here:

• Room type definition - select from a list of standard rooms or specify user room type.
• Method of calculating Φ for the Heating and Cooling scopes (section display depends on the scopes enabled in the design).
• Values of Heat loss index Φ_surf,H / Cooling load index Φ_surf,C when Method of calculating Φ method is selected: Calculated acc. to coefficient.
• For every type of room: Internal temperature in heating mode / Internal temperature in cooling mode and many other parameters that can be changed by the user.

4. Room data.

Editing room data in data table

All data in the table of Room in the AUTO mode (fields with a computer icon) are transferred from General data. The user can change each of these values after substituting the computer icon with a pencil icon.
Subsequent sections of the data table have the following parameters arranged:

• section Component identification:
  • Symbol - Room number in accordance with Pattern of manifold symbol, which is defined in the General data window, section Component appearance and descriptions configuration
  • Room type - selection of this room type affects the parameters transferred to Heating, Cooling sections
  • Building unit - in this field it is possible to change the unit to which the Room is assigned
• section Position - here the room can be moved to another storey or it can be defined as a multi-storey room. For more information, see: Preparation of building structure - Multi storey rooms.
  • From storey
  • To storey
• section Sizes:
  • A_f - Room area within partition faces|Room area faces
  • Floor thickness - in the AUTO mode the value is taken from the same name field of the Storey component
  • Thickness of false ceiling - in the AUTO mode the value is taken from the same name field of the Storey component

The data table also contains the following sections: Heating, Cooling, 2D/3D view style, Label.

5. Data table of the Room.

Graphical presentation of the rooms layout

After editing is completed the appearance of the rooms layout is as shown in the video:

For more information, see: View navigation in the graphical editor.

Numbering the rooms

For more information, see: Preparation of building structure - Numbering the rooms.

Viewing the created building structure

The created building structure can be viewed both in the 2D editor window, as well as in the 3D view window. Project browser and Search functions are also useful in the navigation through the building structure, both of which are presented in the video below.

Component style configuration

Style of the Room and of its label have both their places within the styles tree.
For more information, see: Component appearance configuration.