A. Project Manager can be used as a central control point for your job file. All entities placed in the job file are documented in Project Manager. Separating each type of entity of your job file into different projects gives you a powerful method to control, construct, and test your job file. You can place luminaires, calculation points, rooms, etc. in respective projects (make sure the desired project is visible on the toolbar when placing entities) and then apply the following actions:
- Off - Switching a project or individual entities off results in the project and/or associated entities being made invisible and no longer participating in the lighting calculations. In addition, the switched off project and/or associated entities will not be affected by other entities in enabled projects, such as luminaires in other projects.
- Lock - Locking a project or individual entities prevents the project and/or associated entities from being modified. In addition, a locked project will not be affected by entities in other unlocked projects. Locked projects and/or associated entities can be switched on or off.
The following modification options are only available in the Project table on a project wide basis:
- Load - Loading a project allows the user to make modifications to specific entities within the loaded projects. By default, only one project is loaded at a time. Multiple projects may be loaded for global modification.
- Freeze - Freezing a project results in the project and associated entities within to no longer participate in the lighting calculations. The project is still visible - all entities are shown in Model Mode using the Frozen Entity Color specified in System Settings - Defaults. In addition, the frozen project and associated entities will not be affected by other entities in enabled projects, such as luminaires in other projects.
Why use multiple projects?
Create multiple projects when there are several tasks in the job file that you do not want to interact. For example, you could have several independent rooms in a building that do not affect each other. Create each room, and its associated luminaires, objects and statistical areas, as a separate project. Lock the other projects (rooms) in the job file so you can apply lighting metrics just to the one project (room) you are interested in.
Multiple Project Concepts
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Locate equivalent luminaire locations within individual projects. The ability to switch Off projects easily allows you to compare "equals" during design or bidding phases while maintaining all the data within one file for easy recollection.
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Sports Lighting - Create a project for each field in a multiple use sports complex.
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Sports Lighting - Separate horizontal and vertical calculation grids into multiple projects for optimization and analysis purposes.
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Roadway Lighting - Create a project for each section of roadway or for proposed vs. existing.
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Theatrical Lighting - Separate house and theatrical luminaires into multiple projects for analysis.
When multiple projects are specified, you can choose to associate a schedule with a particular project or all projects.
You can import selected entities of one job file into another, placed in a separate project in AGi32. Users can work on different parts of same project and merge them together for the final presentation.
You may also choose to break up luminaires into multiple projects, so that you can break up the Luminaire Location Summaries accordingly. If the projects remain unlocked and on, the lighting calculations will not be affected.
Freezing projects
Projects can be frozen before or after calculation to prevent them from calculating and affecting/being affected by other projects.
Transferring entities between projects
Entities may be transferred between projects at any time, as long as the projects are already created and are unlocked and on. This allows you to create all entities within one project, then separate them or move a mistakenly placed entity to the proper project.
