Order and Display of Types of Openings, Lower and Upper Connections

For openings (windows, doors, niches), lower and upper connections we work with types. These are clarified with a description, but the type number always serves as the reference. This is stored on the openings and walls, so the assignment remains even if the description is changed. The HRB file can also be replaced, provided that a type number always retains the same meaning.

Until now the type number exactly matched the order and position in the display; at position 10 it was therefore necessarily type 10. Since version 22.01 the display order can be adjusted independently of the type number.

• The display order in the selection in the structure is the same as shown in the tree in the HRB editor. To change the order in the HRB editor, the type is simply moved to the new position by dragging it with the left mouse button held down.

• The order in the display can thus always be sensibly composed. For example, you can sort all window types that determine the lintel area directly one after another; thereafter come, for example, window types for the sill area. If you later add a new type for the lintel area, you now move it next to the other lintel-area types and they appear sensibly grouped in the selection.

The type number is stored on the opening and the wall. If the display order in the HRB file changes, the type number must not change; otherwise all existing projects would produce different results when the HRB is reapplied. Therefore the display order is independent of the type number:

• When the type is created the display number and type number still match. When the display order is changed the type number, however, remains. It is never changed so that it matches those stored in the structures.

• Existing projects can also continue to be processed with the new HRB files without modification. The type number in the existing project still matches the one in the HRB file.

• The actual type number is therefore displayed in addition:

• in the HRB editor in the tree, in parentheses

• in the HRB editor in the dialog to the left of the rocker

• in the structure in the selection of types, in parentheses

• Types cannot be deleted in the HRB editor because it cannot be checked whether its type number has already been used in a structure. Only the type with the last type number can be removed, so that accidentally created types do not have to be retained.

In some cases an HRB file contains more types than should be offered in the selection in the structure:

• In the dialog of the respective types there is a checkbox to the left of the rocker that determines whether this type should be offered.

If the checkbox is set, the type appears in the selection in the structure; if it is not set, it does not. In the HRB editor itself the type is always displayed.