Office library and project library

The office keeps what it draws with in one library: materials, build-ups, parts and objects, its standards and its cost benchmarks. Each project draws from a library of its own, made of copies. So a change in the office never changes a running project by itself, and a project can adapt its copies without touching the office's.

The office library

Library in the top bar opens it, one tab per kind:

• Materials and Build-ups: the hatches and layer sets of the office, with manufacturers' products imported (see below).
• Parts and objects: drawn parts, furniture and sanitary objects, with the starter catalogue every office gets.
• Sets: groups of items by what they are for, such as housing or step-free use, each with a colour. An item can be in several; Sets… on an item puts it into them.
• Proposals: what projects offer the office, with the open ones counted.
• Standards: the layer standard and the line standard, with their published versions.
• Cost benchmarks: the office's € per m² BGF or m³ BRI, used by the Kostenschätzung.

Everyone in the office but guests reads the library; owners and admins change it, and only they see the Proposals tab. Removing an item hides it: nothing is deleted, and projects keep their copies.

A project's library

Each project has a library of its own: Project library on the project's overview, or Open the project library in its settings. The hatch, build-up and part tools offer only what is there. Everyone in the project reads it; whoever may edit the project changes it.

• A new project starts with the basics: the building set of materials and a few build-ups, but no parts.
• Save as part… (BTS) in the editor saves a drawn selection as a part of the project library.

Adding from the office library

1. On the project library, choose Add from office library. It lists only what the project doesn't have yet.
2. Under By set, press a set: every item in it is ticked. Under By kind and item, tick a whole group, or Show items to tick them one by one.
3. Choose Add … items.

Newer versions

When the office changes an item a project has copied, a bar over the project library's tabs says so: "1 item has a newer version in the office library". Show lists each with its versions and a new name, if any. Items not changed in the project are ticked; one changed there says that taking it over replaces the change. Take over … items copies the ticked ones. Nothing changes by itself.

Proposing to the office

A project's own items, and copies it changed, can go into the office library for every project:

1. On the project library, choose Propose to office library, tick the items, add a note on why the office should keep them, and choose Propose … items.
2. An owner or admin opens Library, tab Proposals. They settle the name, for a part its category, and the sets, then Accept it as a New item or as a new version of the office item it renews. Or they type a reason and Reject it.
3. The answer shows on the project library under Proposals to the office library. While a proposal waits, Withdraw takes it back.

Once accepted, the project's item is linked to the office's, and other projects with a copy are offered the new version.

Manufacturers' products

Owners and admins import products on the tabs Materials and Build-ups, under Import manufacturers' products. Search ÖKOBAUDAT searches the federal database of building materials (EPDs to DIN EN 15804): tick up to 20 datasets, read them, check what was found and add it. A material keeps its manufacturer, density and source; EPDs rarely state λ. Choose IFC file… reads a manufacturer's IFC file (IFC2x3 or IFC4) in the browser without uploading it: its layer sets become build-ups, its materials materials.