Edit the zone position and size in the floor plan

Clicking on the Floor plan button in the zone’s form opens a form for the floor plan. (Can also be reached from the building level, by the Floor plan tab.)

The Floor plan can be zoomed in and out by using the scroll wheel of the mouse. The Floor plan can also be rotated by right clicking on a facade and choose "Rotate view to align". The selected faηade will then become the base line of the building body. To revert either create a zone in the original grid alignment and rotate to that, or restart the model (rotation is not saved in the model file).

The position and size of a zone can be changed here. A snapping function helps positioning the zone adjacent to the faηade or other zones. The active zone is indicated by red filling. Any other existing zones in the building, both on the same floor (blue filling) and on other floors, (pale contour lines), are also visible. All zones in the same floor, plus the building shape, can be edited.

To change the position of a zone select it, put the cursor somewhere within the zone’s boundary lines and drag it with the mouse to the desired position in the building. The coordinates for the cursor position can be found in the lower right corner of the IDA-window. The sides of the zone are automatically aligned with corners and lines of other objects (zones, other body parts, CAD drawings). Press the right mouse button to avoid alignment.

The size of the zone can be changed by first selecting it and then dragging one of the small rectangles either in the corners or in the middle of the sides.

It is also possible to give numerical values for the zone’s corners in the form for the Properties page.

The property page shows also the floor area and the zone volume.

The floor area is used for presentation of different parameters "per 1 m² of floor area". By default, the floor area is calculated by the program as the area inside walls. The user may change the default value (for example, to exclude unused parts of zone). In this case it will be displayed with yellow background. To restore the default, remove the value.

The zone volume is calculated by the program as the volume inside the walls, floor, and ceiling.

See Geometry in IDA Indoor Climate and Energy for a description of how the geometry and coordinate systems in IDA Indoor Climate and Energy are defined.

The shape of the zone can be edited after right clicking in the zone and selecting Edit. The editing is handled in the same way as for the building (see Building shape).

The zone can also be rotated by holding down the Alt-key, while dragging a point within the zone’s boundary lines. The zone is dragged along and follows the same movement pattern as a playing card being pulled by a finger on a table. Friction between the card and the table controls the card’s movement.

Note that if a zone is moved so that, e.g., an external wall becomes an internal wall, the wall construction corresponding to the new position will be selected automatically. This also holds for parts of walls.

Walls are automatically coupled to zones and exterior walls that they adjoin. The couplings should not be created by the user.

Along the bottom of the form, there are the following buttons:

New zone

Add one or more zones, either by drawing on the floor plan, or by selecting spaces imported from IFC model.

Template for new zone

Click the template name to choose the template used when creating new zones.
The menu also provides options to edit the current zone template and to reset the selected zone to the current template. The latter will only affect non-geometric information of the zone.

Import…

Opens Import menu:

IFC (3D BIM)

Import of an IFC model, of building.

CAD and vector graphic

Import of a CAD drawing as background.

Bitmap

Import of Windows graphics as background.

Import building body

Import building bogy from CAD drawing.

Import zone geometry

Import one or more zones and building body from CAD drawing

IFC…

Opens IFC menu:

Import…

Import of an IFC model, or CAD drawing, or Windows graphics as background.

Mapping…

The transfer of data objects from the IFC model to IDA is described here.

Remove

Remove the imported IFC model

Make a single zone from all marked IFC spaces

When adding zone, create a single zone from all marked IFC spaces.

Make a separate zone from every marked IFC space

When adding zone, create a zone from each marked IFC spaces

Lock

Disable moving and resizing of objects of given types.

Show

Menu with different options that control the appearance of the floor plan.

Visual filter / Remove filter

Shadow or hide objects of some types on floor plan (independently of 3D view).

Plan size

Presents the relation of the drawing pad to the coordinate system. The view size may be also changed by dragging the page's edges.

Level: xxx m 

Press here to view the floor plan at some other height in the building.