Roof Plans

OpenSolar gives you the ability to create a roof plan for your solar projects.

The Planes Acotados is an annotated drawing that shows the dimensions of the roof and solar panels for a given project. 

Creating a Roof Plan

To create your roof plan, you must first have a complete system design. An essential part of generating the roof plan is ensuring you have drawn out the roof structure in OpenSolar. Please follow these steps:

1. Go to the design page for a given project
2. Draw out the roof structure using the "roof" tool within the advanced settings. 
3. Place the panels on the roof
4. Mark out any obstructions necessary, using the "obstructions" tool in the advanced settings.
5. Download the DXF file for the system within the advanced settings.
   
   

Once you have downloaded the DXF file, you can then label the measurements using a free external tool called Autodesk Vieiwer. 

Click here to open Autodesk Viewer.

Start a new project in Autodesk Viewer and upload the DXF file that you just exported from your OpenSolar design. You can then add your measurements and change the unit of measurements. Once complete, you can then download a PDF copy by clicking the "print" function, or you can simply take a screenshot of it.

Attaching the Planes Acotados to the Memoria Técnica

1. In OpenSolar, navigate to the project > info page
2. Click the file upload button on the right hand side
3. Select the planes acotados file that you just finished in Autodesk vieiwer
4. Make sure to use the file tag called "Roof Plan"

This will embed the roof plan in any document that you have included it as a placeholder.