New Building Dialog Box, One Template Building

The building archive contains only one building template, with the name TEMPLATE-DEF. New buildings are by default based on this template. Define the properties of a new building in the dialog box.

Building id

Enter a label for the new building, with an up to 16 character-long alphanumeric string. Some special characters are allowed in the label. In the label, the following characters are allowed:

• letters: a-z, A-Z
• numbers from 0-9
• special characters: underscore (_)

Name

You can type a descriptive name for the building in the text field. The name is not obligatory.

Store in

Select the building folder saving location from a list. The program will populate the list with all ms_volume entries in the ../user/SETUP file that contain a sub folder named "buildings” in their directory path. The default saving location is defined in the ../user/SETUP file under the keyword building_ms. The keyword value should be an ms_volume definition.

Based on existing building

By default, buildings are based on the TEMPLATE-DEF building template. If you want to create a building based on an existing building, select Based on existing building. All folders, databases and files are copied from the selected base building to the new building. Select the building from the list or by clicking Browse.

Get building data card from

If you are using a separate customer and order database, you can copy the building data card information from the system by clicking the Select button. Implementing this function requires customer fitting.