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Add Zone

Adding a zone to a site can be broken down into two major steps:

1. Adding Zone
2. Add Zone Relationship

Note: Mandatory fields are marked with an ‘*’. The following steps assume that the user is already logged in to the CMS.

Introduction to the Zone Editor

Zone Editor

The zone editor is made up of three major components:

Relationship Graph

Displays all the relationship between zones in a site. User can add new relationships between zones in the relationship graph.

3D Boundary

Displays all the boundaries of every zone defined in a site.

Zone list

Displays all the zones of a site in a list. Can be sorted in Tree view or List view.

Relationship Graph

The relationship between zones in a site is displayed in the relationship graph editor.

Relationship Graph

BBL Zones

Automatically created as zones when BBL is created and 3D objects are assigned to the BBL. All BBL zones are encompassed within a grey rectangle.

New Zone

Creates a new zone when clicked. The new zone will be placed outside of the grey rectangle which houses the BBL zones.

Add hasPart relationship

Adds hasPart relationship between two zones (connected by blue arrows).

Add intersect relationship

Adds intersect relationship between two zones (connected by orange arrows).

Isolate Mode

Isolates the selected zone and zones related to it.

Layout

Switches the relationship graph's layout.

Zoom extends all

Fit whole of relationship graph to canvas.

Zone List

All the zones in a site are displayed in the zone list.

Zone List

Search

Search function searches the zones available with the keyword.

Tree View

Displays the zones according to hierarchy. Parent zone can be collapsed or expanded as needed.

List View

Displays the zones according to alphabetical order.

Edit Zone (>)

Edits the selected zone.

3D Boundary

The 3D boundary view displays all the boundaries of every zone defined in a site.

3D Boundary

Eye icon

Show or hide 3D boundary of selected zone (Only available in the zone list when 3D boundary view is selected).

Edit Zone (>)

Edits the selected zone.

Adding Zone

Steps to Add Zone

1. Go to the Site tab.
2. Select Edit beside the site you want to add zones for
   

   Select Zone Tab
3. Select the "ZONE" tab.
   

   Select Zone Tab
4. Navigate to "RELATIONSHIP GRAPH" view
5. Drag to Canvas or double click on the Canvas to add a new zone.

Edit Zone

Edit new zone

1. Click beside the new zone.
   

   Edit new zone information
2. Edit zone name.
3. Provide Brick Info (*Note: This is optional, but if you want to use this option, both location class and location name must be provided)
4. Click OK to exit editing mode, Cancel to discard changes.

Add Zone Boundary

Edit new zone

1. Click beside the new zone.
   

   Add boundary
2. Click "ADD BOUNDARY" button
   

   Add point mode
3. In the "Add Point" mode, single click on 3D model to pick points of boundary. You can change between the various modes to aid in adding boundary:
   1. Add point
   2. Select/Move point
   3. Delete point
   4. Volume edit settings (sets the volume's base height)
   5. Translate (translates the whole volume according tot X/Y/Z input)
4. Click to hide other zones' boundaries
5. Click to show/hide zones
6. Click to confirm the boundary
   

   Add boundary base, height and color
7. Provide the boundary base, height and color
   1. You can select any object in the 3D scene and use "Update from Selected" to obtain the base or height information
8. Click OK to complete

Duplicate Zone

Senfi provides duplicate zone function to enable users to make quick duplicates of existing zones. To do so, in the relationship graph view:

1. Right-click on the zone that you want to duplicate
2. Click "Duplicate Zone"

Duplicate zone

Copy Zone Boundary

Senfi provides copy zone boundary function to enable users to make copies of existing zones. This is especially helpful for cases where the rooms are of the same shape and sizes across the levels. To do so, in the relationship graph view:

1. Right-click on the zone that you want to copy boundary from
2. Click "Copy Zone Boundary" (*function is only available when zone to copy from has boundary)
3. Right-click on zone that you want to paste copied boundary to
4. Click “Paste Boundary” (only available when copied boundary)

Copy Zone Boundary