The Property Analysis Panel allows you to focus on specific areas within your PVFARM layout as well as allowing you to isolate specific objects for better visibility and control.
How it works
Searching
Start with the object type- you can choose from combiner box, inverter, road, sectionalizing cabinet, substation, terrain height map, tracker, transformer, or wire. You can make as many selections at once as you would like. Delete a selection by clicking on the x to the right of the name.
Select the property- each object type has a variety of properties available to allow you to focus on details.
Note: You can type in what you're looking for to make it easier to sort through the list.
Once you choose an object type and property you can use the "Divide by" function to specify what you are looking for.
Underneath the graph, you can see that it gives you the range and average numbers.
Round Min/Max- You can select the round min/max box. This will move the graph to show a rounded number instead of specific decimals.
Auto Bin Count- if you uncheck this box you can manually enter the amount of bins to have more granularity in your analysis.
Selecting
Hovering over a bar in the graph will give more information about each bin (in the example below the amount of objects and the length ranges).
Clicking on the bar will select everything in the scene that falls into that category on your layout, note that you see a count on the graph bar and at the top middle of the scene. If you click on the highlighted area it will deselect the highlighting.
Click on the brackets to drag to select a range.
Colorizing
You can colorize your site based on the inputs for better insight into where these properties can be found on the site.
Colorize Objects
When colorizing the objects it changes the colors of just the object that has that property, in the example below it has only colorized the MV wires (the right image has them isolated for clarity):
Colorize Hierarchies
When colorizing hierarchies it changes the color of everything that is within the hierarchy of the object that the property applies to, in the example below it has colorized both the MV wires and everything that those wires are connected to:
Common Inputs
Here are some common scenarios that users may want to utilize:
To View X | Object Input | Property Input |
Tracker (or FT) lengths | Tracker (or Fixed Tilt) | tracker-frame| modules| modules_count_x |
Pile Heights
| Tracker (or Fixed Tilt) | tracker-frame| piles | length |
Inverter Performance
| Inverter | inverter| max_power |
Inverter Type
| Inverter | commercial| model |
Max Pile Reveal
| Tracker | tracker-frame| piles| max_reveal |
Tracker Max Current
| Tracker | tracker-frame| string| max_current |
Combiner Box Performance | Combiner Box | circuit| aggregated-capacity| dc_power |