Floor Holes and Building Edges

Learn how to draw, use, and edit Floor Holes and Building Edges in Hamina Network Planner.

Floor Holes do exactly what they sound like: they cut holes into the floor! This is useful for:

• Creating atriums

• Cutting holes for stairwells

• Stacking up multiple seating levels in an auditorium or stadiums

Additionally, the Floor Holes tool can be used to create Building Edges, which is essentially a reverse floor hole. A Building Edge simply cuts away the floor outside the building.

A multi-floor building with no Building Edges defined.

A building with Building Edges defined. The same Building Edge was copied and reused on floors 2, 3, and 4. The ground floor does not have a Building Edge defined.

Drawing Floor Holes and Building Edges

Floor Holes / Building Edges are drawn an edited exactly the same as other area-type objects, such as Attenuating Objects, Scope Zones, and Capacity Zones. To learn how to draw Floor Holes / Building edges, see Drawing Attenuating Objects.

Switching from Floor Hole to Building Edge

When a Floor Hole zone is drawn, Hamina Network Planner will automatically designate it as a Floor Hole or a Building Edge. To manually change it:

1. Activate the Edit tool.

2. Right-click on the edge of the Floor Hole zone (not inside the zone, and not on a point on the edge).

3. The contextual toolbar will appear, where you can choose between Floor Hole or Building Edge.

   

Converting a Scope Zone to a Building Edge

Hamina Network Planner uses machine learning to automatically draw a Scope Zone, which is often similar or identical to the desired Building Edge.

It isn't yet possible to convert a Scope Zone to a Building Edge in Hamina, but this can be achieved with an external tool such as clipboard.potatofi.com. Note: This is a 3rd party tool by a Hamina employee, but is otherwise unaffiliated with or supported by Hamina.

To convert a Scope Zone to a Building Edge:

1. Use the Edit tool to select the Scope Zone in Hamina.

2. Press Command + C or Ctrl + C to copy it to the clipboard.

3. Open clipboard.potatofi.com, and click the green Paste from Hamina button.

4. Use the Convert Zones and Objects tool to convert the zone to a Building Edge.

5. Click the blue Copy to Clipboard button.

6. Back in Hamina, press Command + V or Ctrl + V to paste the zone back into Hamina.

7. While the zone is still selected, left-click and drag using an empty edge (not a point) on the zone to drag it into position on the building.