Typical Examples of Importing Topology Elements

This section describes several practical examples of importing topology elements from one project to another. You may need to import topology elements in the following cases:

1. Error in selecting the project type. For example, the topology of an industrial building is drawn in a civil facility project. The error is detected when the building is fully drawn, or a significant portion of the work is already completed.

2. Collaborative project work. Several employees are simultaneously working on a large-scale project (for example, a multi-story building) within tight deadlines. For instance, each employee is responsible for drawing 2-3 floors. Upon completion, all drawn floors are imported into a single project for fire risk calculation.

3. For a civilian object, a project was created and a fire risk calculation was performed in the application. Then you need to calculate the fire separation distance between this building and another civilian object.

Below are hte details of each of the cases described above, and we demonstrate how to use the topology import feature in practice.

Error in selecting project type

If a production facility was created in a civil object project (or vice versa) and a fire risk calculation was performed, then the use of the obtained calculation value is not legit. Even if all dimensions of the building in the application accurately reflect the dimensions of the real object, and the placement of fire loads and distribution of people are realistic, the methodology for fire risk calculation for a civil facility was chosen incorrectly, hence using the obtained calculation results is not legit.

In this case, do the following:

1. Create a new project of the desired type.

2. Import an existing topology into this project.

This will eliminate the need to re-render the object topology and save time.

Below is an example of a civil project in which a production facility was created. The project includes topological, evacuation, and fire components.

Create an industrial project in the application.

To import the building topology, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the name of a building in the scenario browser and select Import in the context menu.

2. In the window that opens, specify the location of the project file from which you want to import the building topology. The topology import window opens.

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3. Since the project contains only one scenario, and the entire building needs to be imported, leave all selected elements unchanged and click the Import button.

The application performes the import of the selected topology. The topology is imported into the current scenario. Note that only the building’s topology is imported. The fire and evacuation components are not imported.

Collaborative project work

If several people are simultaneously working on a project, and each of them is engaged in drawing several floors of a building in separate projects, it is necessary to combine all the building floors for the fire risk calculation. You can take any of these projects as a basis and import floors drawn in other projects into it.

When drawing floor topologies and objects placed on them in different projects, it is necessary to correctly set the levels.

In the example, the work on the project of a multi-story building is divided among 3 people. It is required to import floors from two other projects into the project where the topologies of the first floor is drawn.

Below is an example of a civil facility project into which floors are imported from other projects.

For this, do the following:

1. Right-click the name of a building in the scenario browser and select Import in the context menu.

2. In the window that opens, specify the location of the project file from which you need to import the floors. The topology import window opens.

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3. Since the project contains only one scenario, and the all floors need to be imported, leave all selected elements unchanged and click the Import button.

The application performs the import of the selected topology. The topology is imported into the current scenario.

4. Repeat steps 1-2. The topology import window opens.

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5. You have already imported floors 7 and 8 earlier (in step 3), uncheck the boxes next to the names of these floors and click the Import button.

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Note that only floor topologies are imported. Fire and evacuation components are not imported. Imported floors and objects placed on them retain their properties.

Calculation of fire distance between civil objects

In practice, there may arise a situation when it is necessary to justify the fire separation distances between two objects, for one of which a fire risk calculation was performed. In order not to re-render this object, you can import the finished topology of this object from the fire risk calculation project into the universal project.

For this, do the following:

1. Create a new universal project as described in Creating a new project.

2. Right-click the name of a building in the scenario browser and select Import in the context menu.

3. In the window that opens, specify the location of the project file from which you need to import the building topology. The topology import window opens.

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4. Since the project contains only one scenario, and the whole building needs to be imported, leave all selected elements unchanged and click the Import button.

The application performs the import of the selected topology. The building topology is imported into the current scenario.

Note that only floor topologies are imported. Imported floors and objects placed on them retain their properties.