Tools Menu
The Tools menu can be accessed from the horizontal top
bar menu at the top of the screen.
General
- Program options
- open
program options dialog.
- Rebuild - Rebuilds all secondary geometry including block perimeters, zones, default openings, adjacencies (block and zone) and all display lists from the base building elements.
- Merge zones - control the way zones are combined.
- Rezone block
- refresh the zoning in the current block.
- Import library components to model - import current component and template libraries
to the model replacing existing ones.
- Export data
- export results/graphics results from the current screen.
- Compile report
- generation of a report based on previously created Report
topics.
- Hourly weather data
- open the hourly weather data dialog.
- Thermal comfort calculator - calculate PMV and PPD from air and radiant temperatures, RH, clothing and air speed.
- Show log file -
show a log file containing information on your computer and all significant
actions taken during the current DesignBuilder session.
- Building Cost Summary - open the dialog to edit building summary costs.
Results screens
- Update calculated data
- refreshes the results first opening the Calculation options dialog allowing
you to enter new options.
- Lock
Y-axis min/max values - locks the extent of the Y-axes so that
they keep their current maximum and minimum values allowing consistent
comparison with the future results display.
- Optimisation Analysis Settings - access optimisation settings.
Libraries (opening screen)