Roof Elements

For the partitioning of roof surfaces into elements, various rules are defined that determine how the components within the elements should be specified. These rules are stored in a preconfiguration file. Any number of these preconfiguration files can be created, and the desired file is selected during the elementing process.

When an elementing is entered, the selected roof surface is divided into strips that can have any width or a standard width with a single click. At the same time, a preconfiguration file is assigned to each element, and the components are generated according to its rules.

The elements do not exist only temporarily during the elementing; element objects are created within the roof. Therefore, components can also be added manually at any time and will be automatically assigned to the respective element. If such an assignment is not possible—for example, because the entered component does not lie unequivocally within a specific element but overlaps other elements—the assignment can be carried out manually.

The assignment of a component to an element can also be reviewed and modified in DICAM using the 'MOS - Package / Element' function.

The boundaries of an element can be moved subsequently. If a recalculation of the elements is then performed, the rules of the preconfiguration file are re-executed and the components are adapted to the new situation. Manually entered components remain preserved and retain their global position in the roof.

A different preconfiguration file can also be assigned to each element afterwards, or the assigned preconfiguration file can be changed for a single element (project data) without altering the original preconfiguration file (master data).

Because the program knows the membership of components to an element, it can pass this information to the machine or display it in the individual bar drawings.