How to change colour of façade analysis results?
- Facade analysis results can be created on gradient or colour band mode.
- Gradient mode has 4 different colour options. The colour gradient is created for the min and max values provided for the calculation type. For example for VSC it is 0 and 27 by default.
- All options except Rainbow create 21 colours in total. Rainbow creates 25 colours in total.
- Intermediate colours are added to avoid colour contrast between values in two intervals. The breakdown of intermediate colours is as below:
- Two colour: 2 for the min and max colours and 19 interpolated colours between them.
- Three colour: 3 for the given colours and 9 interpolated colours between first and second and second and third colour.
- Rainbow colour: 7 for the given colours and 18 for the intermediate colours between them. (3 interpolated colours between each consecutive colour except the last one)
- Default colour: 11 for the given colours and 10 for the mid colour between them except the last one.
- Gradient Legend Interval
The interval for legend values is created by dividing the min and max values equally to the legend colours.
Interval values for legend colours are calculated using the formula (Max value – Min value) / (total colours in legend – 1). The last colour is for all values greater than max therefore (total colours – 1) is used.For example, The interval of values per Default legend colour for VSC legend with min of 0 and max of 27 will be calculated as below.
(27-0) / (21-1) = 1.35 - Colour Band Mode
- BRE mode
- If BRE option on Colour Band mode is ticked, VSC and APSH legends will be customised according to the BRE criteria. The legend will be created with just three colours for Pass, Nearly Pass and Fail. The colours can be changed by the users. The pass values for VSC and APSH is taken from Project settings Criteria section.For Example, for VSC calculation if the result >= 27 (or) loss < 20 % then it passes, if the result >= 26 (or) loss < 21 % (Tolerance = 1) then it is Nearly Passed, otherwise it will fail. The legend will show Pass, Nearly Pass and Fail results. If the calculation is run for neighbour scheme only one legend is created.
- There are no default values for non-gradient legend mode. Users must define the range for each calculation type before running the calculation. If non-gradient legend values are not defined for the calculation, the default gradient mode is used.Select the calculation type radio button to define the colour band values. Then click on the Color textbox to choose a colour and enter a value. The values must be in ascending order. The first value will be the minimum value and last value will be maximum value for any calculation. The ratio colour and values fields can be left empty if the calculation is only being run for Proposed scheme.
- BRE mode
Why do I get “Selection is not valid. Please Select a Group..” error despite selecting a group with valid faces?
- Horizontal faces which are facing downward are ignored by default.
- This option can be turned off from Settings –> Application Settings -> Calculation –->Façade section and Ignore Horizontal Downward faces. If such faces are needed to be analysed.
- Reverse the faces and Run the façade analysis again.
