Creating and Managing Projects

Learn how to create projects, configure their settings, and organize them into folders with Hamina Network Planner.

Each Hamina project is designed to model one building at a time. Use separate projects when working with multiple buildings for most accurate results and greatest performance.

To create a new project, click on the Project drop-down menu, and then the + New project button at the bottom of the menu.

The Create First Project window will appear, which contains several settings.

Project name

Defines the name for the project. If you are working on a named building, this is a good place to put it.

Country

Defines the regulatory domain of the network, and will determine which Wi-Fi channels are available for use.

Environment

The Environment configures two aspects of the project:

1. How much attenuation to apply to the map if the prediction mode is set to Env Type (PLE). This usually only happens when there aren't any walls or attenuating objects on the project. Learn more about switching prediction modes in Simulation Models.

2. Sets the minimum ceiling height on maps in the project that haven't been added to the building with the Align floors tool. Learn more about this in Ceiling Heights.

While the environment type and "blanket attenuation" is good for rough AP count estimations, for true network designs, we recommend drawing walls and attenuating objects.

If you need to model free space (such as a network in an open field), choose the Free Space environment type, which not apply any blanket attenuation to the project.

Project folder

Projects can be grouped together with folders. You can use folders to group together projects on a campus, by larger project, or by customer.

Folder and sub-folders can be created by adding forward slashes. For example:

Area A / Campus A / Building 1

Area A / Campus A / Building 2

Area A / Campus B / Building 1

If the project is shared with another user (either individually or as a team), they receive the same folder structure. You will also receive any edits made to the folder structure.