Editing Unit Group Properties
You can view and edit the HVR properties for each unit group (excluding the No HVR Assigned group) by right-clicking on the group item and selecting Properties. This will display the Component Properties window, consisting of two tabs: Monodraught HVR® Properties and Information.
The Monodraught HVR® Properties tab allows you to control the basics of the unit group such as naming, whether possible louvres and windows should be automatically identified when a room is assigned to the group, whether it will highlight its assigned louvres and windows, and its colour (displayed next to it in the grouping scheme and used by opening highlighting and if the By Room Group option is selected in the View->Colour menu).
Name: Allows you to change the name of the unit group. Editing this name will also update the name of the associated component in the model’s component library.
Number of Units: Determines the number of simulated HVR units that will be used in each room that is assigned to the unit group up to a maximum of six units. Note that each assigned room must have an integrated louvre for each simulated unit (e.g. if the # of Units is 2, each assigned room must have 2 integrated louvres). Refer to Appendix B: for details of required louvre sizes for HVR systems and ideal quantities of HVR systems for different room types.
Colour: Displays the colour currently used by the unit group for highlighting (this colour is displayed next to each group in the Monodraught HVR® grouping scheme). Clicking on the colour will display the standard colour picker window, allowing this colour to be changed.
In-use: Indicates whether the unit group is in-use (has one or more rooms assigned to it) or not in use.
Heating capacity: (X+ and XC units only) Sets the maximum capacity of the heating coil (and cooling coil for the XC unit) up to the unit limit of 6kW
Room Radiator Capacity: (X unit only) Sets the maximum capacity of the room radiator up to the unit limit of 6kW
Automatically identify HVR® openings on room assignment (where possible): If active, the VE will attempt to automatically identify any wall-based external windows or doors that can be associated to the HVR units in the room at the point it is assigned to the unit group. Any external windows or doors in the room that are assigned a MacroFlo opening type that is not using the “off continuously” profile will be considered for use by the HVR unit and their MacroFlo updated appropriately.
For more details on assigning louvres and windows for HVR units, see the Assignment Guidance section.
Highlight HVR® openings on view: These options control whether rooms assigned to this unit group will highlight their attached louvre(s) and/or window(s). Louvres will be highlighted in full colour, while windows will be highlighted in a lightened version of the colour. Note that the opening highlighting is only displayed if the Monodraught HVR® grouping scheme is active in the room browser.
IMPORTANT: switching off highlighting does not stop the openings from being used by the HVR units – it is simply a visual cue to provide at-a-glance identification of which openings in a room are used by the HVR in that room.
Note that if there are already room(s) assigned to the unit group when you apply changes to one or more of these settings, the updates will be applied to all currently assigned rooms.
The navigator action Adjust HVR® operating parameters for the imported systems (as necessary) will simply cycle through all available unit groups, asking you whether you want to edit the properties or skip.
This is equivalent to right-clicking on each unit group in turn and clicking on Properties.
