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Projects
Finding, opening and sharing projects; requesting a licence.
The projects page lists your company's projects and those other companies have shared with you.
Finding a project
The list on the left can be searched (Search…) and filtered with Show: all projects, real lines only, or the test projects on line 10. A lock icon marks a project that is checked out - green by you, amber by someone else.
Choose a project to see its details, its iterations, its mast images and its site plan.
Opening an iteration
Open opens an iteration and checks the project out for you, so you can edit it. Copy latest as new saves the newest iteration as a new iteration and opens that one - a quick way to start a variant.
To start a project from scratch, use the first button at the top left, New project - see New project. The button beside it, Open project, brings you back to this list from any page.
Sharing a project with another company
The company that created a project can share it under Assignments: choose the company and Locked or Unlocked, then Assign / change.
- Locked: the company can add new iterations, and replace only the ones it saved itself.
- Unlocked: the company can also replace any iteration.
Demo account: requesting a licence
With a demo account the projects page shows Request full licence. It sends a request to vdp Software Tools; you are told when it is approved.
Comparing iterations
If your plan includes it (Licence plans) and the project has at least two iterations, Compare, the tab above the list of iterations, shows what changed between two of them. Choose Before and After; at first they are the one before the newest and the newest. Swap exchanges them.
- Results per mast: for every mast its last calculated result in both iterations and the change of the utilisation - worse in red, better in green. Nothing is calculated here. Outdated means the inputs changed since that calculation; Calculate opens the calculation of a mast that has none.
- Per mast: its data and its parts - changed (only the values that differ), new or removed. A part in one iteration is the same part in the other if it has the same load case and the same catalogue part; several of them on one mast are paired from the lowest up.
- Project: the project data that differ.
At first only the differences are shown; Show everything shows everything.