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:
Activate the Edit tool.
Right-click on the edge of the Floor Hole zone (not inside the zone, and not on a point on the edge).
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:
Use the Edit tool to select the Scope Zone in Hamina.
Press Command + C or Ctrl + C to copy it to the clipboard.
