2.3.2. Creating a new project<br>

### 2.3.2. Creating a new project

A new project is created by means of the “File / New project” command or by clicking on the “New project” button – first button on the “Program” tab. After creating a new project the “Project options” window is displayed. It consists of several tabs and is designed to specify basic data of the project. By default the second tab is selected: “General data”. The supply temperature specified here is a default value used when creating every new source in the project. The supply temperatures of individual control circuits are determined irrespective of this value (use of mixers is assumed). Most of the important options for radiant heating is on the “Floor heating” tab. Proper specification of these options, including the reduction of possible pipe spacing values in the peripheral and occupied zone enables faster design and avoidance of mistakes and omitting when entering data. It is also worth taking some time to look into other tabs, particularly the third tab, which defines default types of: pipes used for sizing pipe-runs in the project (in a floor heating system pipe-runs are only found between manifolds and the source), manifold and manifold cabinet. When default types are specified, then you will not have to indicate later the type to be sized.

Project options can be changed at a later stage of design work. To do this select “Options / General data” (F7) or “Options / Info” (Shift+F7) – each of these commands displays the project options window in the appropriate tab. You can then switch to other tabs.

Further in this section we assume that the project has one or more sheets with storey plans (see section 2.2).