ACTi Floor Planner User Manual V2.3.2

ACTi Floor Planner

User’s Manual

2014/01/17

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1 Introduction 3

Installation ............................................................................................ 4

Startup…………….. ............................................................................... 5

2 User Interface 7

Main Screen ........................................................................................... 7

Physical Layout ...................................................................................... 8

Adding Camera ............................................................................ 11

Camera Settings and Sample Screen ................................................... 12

Physical Settings ......................................................................... 12

Relation Setting .................................................................................. 16

Maps ............................................................................................ 16

CMS Servers ............................................................................... 16

NVR Servers ................................................................................ 17

Switches ...................................................................................... 17

System Diagram................................................................................... 19

Grid View ..................................................................................... 19

Hierarchical View ......................................................................... 20

Exporting System Diagram Image ............................................... 20

Exporting System Diagram in PDF .............................................. 21

3 Tips 22

Saving Projects .................................................................................... 22

Export Layout Image ........................................................................... 22

Export Camera Setting ........................................................................ 23

Export Layout PDF ............................................................................... 23

4 Use AutoCAD with Floor Planner 24

Converting from Physical Printouts .................................................... 26

Converting from PDF files ................................................................... 27

Converting from Drawing Files with Autodesk DWG TrueView ........ 28

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Introduction

ACTi Floor Planner is a Windows-based tool from ACTi that aims to help system integrators
design surveillance projects. You may:

1. Import the floor plan image file

2. Add ACTi cameras to the floor plan, adjust their installation position and settings

based on the real camera specifications to simulate the real scenario, and export a
new floor plan with camera placement on it.

3. Export system hierarchy diagram based on your system architecture.

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Installation

Floor Planner utilizes Adobe Flex to implement its functions. You will find two files in the
download section:

1. Adobe AIR installer: is a runtime install that will be the foundation of Floor Planner.

2. Floor Planner: an .air file that contains the actual Floor Planner.

Please first run the AdobeAIRInstaller.exe and then double-click on the Floorplanner2.3.air.
Follow the instructions and install Floor Planner.

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Startup

You may start Floor Planner by going to My Computer  All Programs and click on the
link.

On startup, Floor Planner will ask you to either create a new project or open an existing
project. Everything you do in Floor Planner is associated with the given project, allowing you
to revisit past plans at any time.

To open an existing project, click on Open Project to locate an existing project file.

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To create a new project, type in the Project Name and Description and click the Create
button to create a new project.

Once a new project is created, Floor Planner will add a default map to your project
automatically.

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Physical
Layout
Map

Camera
Setting

Contextual
Displays

User Interface

Main Screen

The main screen is composes of three areas; the Physical Layout Map, the Camera Settings,
and the Contextual Displays.

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Map List

Add Map

Edit Map

Shift
Camera
Position

Delete
Camera

Toggle Icon
Display

Shift Map
Background

Fit Map to
Display Area

Zoom Bar

Scale Bar

Distance
Display

Show / Hide
Scale Bar
Toggle

Edit Scale
Ratio

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Physical Layout

Physical Layout is where you setup, display and arrange the cameras. You can visualize the
whole physical area here, and create a realistic simulation.

This section allows for loading map image with dynamic rescaling, zoom in, zoom out and
scrolling.

Adding Map to project

Click on the Add Map button. A dialog box will appear below. Provide the name for this map,
select the image, and define the related map. As for related map, please see

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Relation Setting on page 16 for details. Floor Planner allows importing of .BMP, .JPG, .PNG
and .GIF files. Image size is limited to 16 million pixels. This means 4096 x 4096 pixels for
square images, or 5796 x 2892 pixels for images twice as wide as high. The screen area
available for display at one time is 800 x 400 pixels. The original image is kept in the
background and zoomed in or out.

If you have AutoCAD or other file formats, please export them to one of the four supported
above, then import into Floor Planner. Please see Use AutoCAD with Floor Planner on page
24 for details.
As Floor Planner allows for multiple maps, you can either separate one big map into
convenient areas to allow detailed processing on the whole project, or put them all together to
get an overview.

You may change the background image or the map name or the related map by clicking on
the edit map button. In the edit map dialog box, you may also remove the current map. All
information associated with this map will be lost if you delete the map. Select from the
drop-down map list to go to the target map.

Defining Map Scale

As the camera view pies are displayed according to real distance, we need to properly define
map image magnification so that the pie sizes make sense. To do so, there is a scale bar
shaped like an arrow in the map view area.

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You may move the arrow by clicking on the round dot at the arrow base. This will reposition
the arrow without changing the direction and length. Clicking and dragging the arrow tip will
change the length and direction of the arrow.

You can move and resize the arrow to align with sections on the map you know the length
about. Then you can click on the Edit Scale Ratio button to the lower right of physical layout
window. A Scale Ratio setting dialog window will pop-up in center of screen. Enter the
dimension and unit for the scale bar and click OK to confirm. All the view pies will be
recalculated based upon your new scale ratio.

This works on any image, and does not have to be line drawing. Other images also work
fantastically well with Floor Planner, like the Pyramids of Giza from Google map satellite
image shown below.

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