Preparing Graphics for Fire Brigade Maps

Fire Brigade Maps can be generated starting either from Desigo CC graphics or from external PDFs. This section covers how to prepare Desigo CC graphics for generating Fire Brigade Maps.

Configure Desigo CC Graphics that Correspond to the Required Maps

You can create the required graphics in Desigo CC from scratch, or start from graphics imported using the Advanced CAD Importer tool. In either case, the graphic must contain the fire objects that you want to appear in the fire brigade map AND their direct parent object according to specific rules:

• Parent fire object: For example, a Zone. This is the object whose function or object model you select when running the fire brigade map generation tool.
  It will not itself appear in the fire brigade map, but must be placed on the graphic to allow its child objects to appear.
• Child fire objects: For example, Detectors. Any child objects of the above parent that are included in the graphic will appear on the fire brigade map.
  They must be direct children. It will not work for grandchildren or more distant descendants.

When you run fire Brigade Map Generator, you specify the functions or object models of interest, and PDF maps are produced for each Desigo CC graphic that includes matching objects.
Other Desigo CC objects present on the graphics are not considered for the fire brigade maps.

NOTES:

• If you include a parent object as above but none of its child objects, then the parent object itself will appear in the fire brigade map.
• The graphics can have a parent-child structure that does not exactly correspond to the Management View. For example, if a parent object and its children are split in multiple graphics, then you get multiple corresponding maps with the split sets of child objects.
• If a fire object of the selected function or object model is present in multiple graphics, then the tool generates the corresponding multiple fire brigade maps in the same PDF file

Layers for Detection Areas or Access/Evacuation Routes

To mark access/evacuation routes or detection areas in a fire brigade map, you can create dedicated layers and associate them to the corresponding fire objects using the Coverage Area Reference property of a bounding rectangle around the object or symbols. See Access Route and Detection Area Layers via Coverage Areas.

Spaces in Layer Names

If you are using graphics generated from Advanced CAD Importer, that include mounting type information, these will have layer names of the form:

• <Mounting Type><space><Object Type><space><Object Subtype>, for example DB Detector Automatic
• <Object Type><space><Object Subtype>, for example Detector Automatic

In this case, do NOT use spaces in any other layer names of graphics (for example "Floor 1 - East - Offices"), such as those you create for detection areas or access/evacuation routes. This will interfere with the mechanism for retrieving mounting type information, causing Fire Brigade Map generation to fail or to produce incorrect results.

Routes Across Multiple Graphics

If you require to show access or evacuation routes across a sequence of maps, for example going from the ground floor to the first floor of a building, you must configure some additional views defining the sequences of maps and the positioning of detection areas. For instructions see Multi-Map Access / Evacuation Routes.