Crestron
D3 Pro
™
Software
Add Areas and Rooms
An
area
defines a collection of rooms that are usually in proximity to each other, i.e.,
First Floor, East Wing, or Top Floor. Your first task in building a lighting system is
to define each area, and then to assign rooms to those areas. In this way, you can
organize your project and more easily find rooms in a large project. Organizing
rooms into areas also makes it easier to configure groups within the Module and
Enclosure Wizard. Some rules regarding areas and rooms are as follows:
•
A room can only belong to one area.
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Areas can only contain rooms.
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Each area and room must have a unique name. However, an area and room
can have the same name.
Every system starts with one pre-defined area, called the
Equipment Area
, which
contains one pre-defined room, called the
Equipment Room
. The purpose of the
Equipment Room is to provide the lighting system with a default location for the
control processor. In addition, if you place a device in the Equipment Room, that
device can be controlled from any user interface in the system. That is, the device is
considered global, and touchpanel templates pages will be added for that device to all
the touchpanels in the system.
You can rename the Equipment Room and Equipment Area, but you cannot remove
them.
You can define areas in several ways. You can drag an area from the General toolbox
to the system folder. Or you can right-click the system folder, point to
New
, and
select
Area
.
To add multiple areas, hold down the Shift key while you drag an area from the
General toolbox to the system directory. Then select the number of areas you want to
add.
To rename an area, right-click and select
Rename
from the submenu, or press F2.
You use the same methods to add rooms; that is, you can drag a room from the
General toolbox to the system directory, add multiple rooms at a time by holding
down the Shift key, or right click an area, point to
New
, and select
Room
. The
method for renaming a room is also the same: right-click and select
Rename
, or
select the room and press F2.
You can also right-click to view the properties of an area or room. Areas and rooms
provide only one property that you can set, and that is the Description field. If you
enter a description it will be included with any documentation that you generate.
D3 Pro allows you to add areas and rooms from any of the system Views, except for
the Finish View.
Reference Guide – DOC. 5998a
Crestron D3 Pro™
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