Locations
The Locations feature lets you keep several sites in one project, for example a warehouse, an office and a parking lot that belong to the same customer. Each location is a separate design with its own background (floor plan, satellite image or empty background), scale, floors, cameras, devices and network diagram layout. The pricing, the Simple report and the network diagram cover all locations, so you can prepare one quote and one report for a multi-site job.
When to use this
- When one customer or order covers several buildings or sites
- When the sites need different backgrounds or scales, for example a satellite image for the yard and a floor plan for the office
- When you want one bill of materials and one report for all sites
- When you would otherwise create and maintain several separate projects for the same job
TIP
To model several levels of the same building, use Floors instead. Each location has its own set of floors.
Locations button
The Locations button (location pin icon) is located in the bottom center toolbar, next to the Floors and Layers buttons. Hover over it to see the name of the current location. The button has a distinctive outline when the project has more than one location.
- Click the button to open a popup menu listing all locations in the project. The current location is highlighted.
- Select a location by clicking on it. The editor switches to that location and shows its background, cameras and devices.
- Add Location at the bottom of the popup starts adding a new location.
- Manage Locations at the bottom of the popup opens the location editor modal.
Every project has at least one location. Projects created before this feature open as a single location named "Location 1".
Adding a location
To add a new location:
- Click the Locations button in the bottom toolbar.
- Click Add Location in the popup (or in the footer of the Manage Locations modal).
- In the Add Location dialog, select the background for the new location, the same way you do when creating a project:
- Upload file – a floor plan as an image, PDF or DXF file
- Satellite Image – an area of a satellite map
- Empty background – a blank canvas
- Set the scale of the background as usual.
The new location becomes the current one and gets a default name (Location 2, Location 3, etc.). You can rename it in Manage Locations.
If you click Cancel while choosing the background, no location is added and the editor returns to the location you were working on.
Managing locations
To rename, reorder or delete locations, click Manage Locations in the locations popup. The modal lists all locations in their current order, with the current location highlighted. For each location you can:
- Location name – Enter a descriptive name (e.g., "Main Warehouse", "Office Building"). If you clear the name, the location is shown with its default name.
- Move up / Move down – Change the order of the locations. The order is used in the locations popup, the network diagram tabs and the Simple report.
- Delete location – Remove the location (trash icon).
Changes are applied immediately. Click Close when you are done.
Deleting a location
To delete a location:
- Open the Manage Locations modal.
- Click the delete button (trash icon) on the location you want to remove.
- Confirm the deletion in the warning dialog.
DANGER
Deleting a location permanently removes everything placed in it:
- Its background and scale
- All its floors
- All cameras, devices and connections
- All walls, obstacles, images and other objects
- Its network diagram layout
This cannot be undone.
A project must always have at least one location, so the delete button is disabled when only one location is left. If you delete the current location, the editor switches to a neighboring location first.
What each location contains
Each location is independent and stores its own:
- Background (floor plan, satellite image or empty background) and scale
- Floors, including the ground floor name
- Cameras, devices and connections
- Walls, obstacles, images and other objects
- Network diagram layout
Camera and device numbering is also per location, so two locations can both have a camera named "Camera 1". Reports add the location name wherever this could be ambiguous.
The following are shared by the whole project:
- Project name and settings
- Pricing data
- Report settings and title block
Locations in the rest of the application
- Pricing – The Pricing Module and the bill of materials include the cameras, devices and cables from all locations.
- Simple report – The Simple Report contains all locations in one document. Overview pages are labeled "Location · Floor", the camera detail pages have a Location row, the device list has a Location column, and there is one network plan page per location.
- Network diagram – The Network Plan shows one tab per location. Exporting the diagram exports the currently selected tab.
- Shared projects – When you share a project, viewers get a read-only location selector so they can view every location. They cannot add, rename or delete locations.
- Other exports – Export to PDF/JPG, Export to DXF and the Document Creator work on the current location. Switch to each location to export it.
- Free plan limits – On the free plan, the camera and device limits count items across all locations, not per location. See Free / Premium / Enterprise Versions.
Tips
- Use clear names for your locations (e.g., "Warehouse – North", "Head Office") because they appear in the Simple report and on the network diagram tabs
- Put the locations in the order you want them to appear in the report before generating it
- When you switch to another location, the editor opens its ground floor
- Undo and redo work within the current location. Switching to another location clears the undo history
- Before deleting a location, make sure you no longer need anything placed in it
- For several levels of the same building, add floors instead of locations