Rooms

Every floor heating system starts with the rooms. A room's heated areas and the loops inside are derived from it; when the room changes, they follow automatically.

#Values for the next room

Goal: set the values the next room gets – before you insert it.

The edge distance of the room (distance of the heated area from the wall) is set on the Heated areas page; it also applies to new rooms.

#Rectangular room

Goal: insert a rectangular room with two clicks.

Steps

1. Click Rectangular room.
2. Click the first corner (1) – "1 of 2: click the first corner".
3. Click the opposite corner (2). The room is created with the palette values, optionally with room tag (3); the command line shows area and perimeter.
4. Next room right away; Enter or Esc finishes. Every room is its own undo step.

#Room from polyline

Goal: take over a room from a closed polyline already in the drawing – for example from an architectural plan.

Steps

1. Click Room from polyline.
2. Click a closed polyline – on its edge or inside.
3. Its outline becomes the room; the polyline itself stays. Next one right away; Enter finishes.

#Pick room (points)

Goal: insert a room of any shape corner by corner.

Steps

1. Click Pick room (points).
2. Click the first corner, then every further one. The command line counts ("Click the next corner (4 corners) …").
3. Z (Back option) removes the last corner.
4. Enter or Esc closes the room – the last corner is connected to the first. A room needs at least three corners.

#Change room

Goal: change number, name, room temperature, heat loss or edge distance of an existing room.

Steps

1. Click Change room ... (or Properties in the tools) and click the room – on its edge or inside. It is highlighted.
2. Change the values in the dialog box. Under Key figures you see area, perimeter, level (from the project) and the heated areas with their area.
3. OK. If the edge distance changes and the room already has heated areas, they are rebuilt with their loops.

Every field of the dialog box: Room.

#Room tag

Goal: set what the room tag of new rooms shows and how it looks.

Steps

1. Rooms page › "..." next to the check box "Insert room tag right away" – or gear menu › Room tag ….
2. Under Lines check what appears below number and name: Area (on by default), Room temperature, Heat loss (without a value on the room the line is dropped).
3. Choose the shape: rectangular (frame) (default), circle or no frame. A circle only has room for number/name and ONE line below – the first one selected.
4. OK. The command line says: applies to new tags.

#Insert / reposition room tags

Goal: give rooms without a tag one – and put moved tags back in their place in the room.

Steps

1. Click Insert / reposition room tags.
2. Click rooms – or click next to the rooms and drag a window. Rooms selected beforehand already count. The command line counts.
3. Enter = run. Missing tags are added (using the template "Room (Floor Heating)"), existing ones return to their place in the middle of the room; additional text and shape stay. One undo step.

#Delete room

Goal: remove a room with everything derived from it.

Steps

1. Click Delete room (or Delete in the tools).
2. Click the room. It is deleted with its heated areas, exclusion areas and loops; its room tag goes too.
3. Next one right away; Enter finishes. One U brings the room back with everything.

#Check rooms

Goal: see whether everything fits together – rooms, areas, exclusion areas, loops and leaders.

1. Click Check rooms (the same as Check in the tools).
2. The command line shows the counts ("3 rooms (52.4 m²), 4 heated areas (…), 1 exclusion areas, 5 loops.") and one line per issue, finally "Check: no issues." or "n issue(s)".

What "Check" reports is listed under Check.

#Editing rooms with GstarCAD

Goal: change rooms with the familiar GstarCAD commands.

A room outline is a polyline. Whatever you do with it, the plug-in updates at the end of the command – in the same undo step: