Small Icons Format

In Small Icon format, each item is shown as a small icon with the item name to the right of the icon. Items are listed in rows from left to right across the list view panel. Once icons fill the available display area, the list view must be scrolled to see additional items. To switch to Small Icon format, choose the “Small Icons” option on the View Menu, or press the “Small Icons” toolbar button.

A.20 SETTING USER PREFERENCES

The Preferences option on the View Menu is used to specify preferences affecting program operation. When this option is selected, the Preferences window appears. This window contains two tabs.

Appendix A

Performing Common Tasks with HAP

engineer so equipment selections can be run against your sizing data. See Section B.10 for further information.

The second part of the General Tab contains preferences which apply only to HAP:

 Show Tooltips - Tooltips are the small messages that appear when you position the mouse cursor over toolbar buttons and various other portions of the main program window, or certain input windows. Tooltips will be shown when this box is checked.

 Show Date - When this box is checked, the current date will be shown in the right-hand portion of the status bar.

 Show Time - When this box is checked, the current time will be shown in the right-hand portion of the status bar.

 Operating Mode allows you to turn Energy Analysis features on and off. This option is only offered when running the full version of HAP. It is not offered when running HAP System Design Load. In HAP, users have the option of switching the program from full HAP mode to HAP System Design mode and vice versa. Switching to HAP System Design mode turns off all of the inputs and features for energy analysis. When using the program only for system design work, users may find it more efficient to hide the unneeded energy analysis features from view. Users can switch between operating modes at any time and for any project. For example, if you created a project while in HAP System Design mode you can later switch it to full HAP mode. All of the original project data will remain. You will only have to supply the extra energy analysis data to run energy studies.

A.20.2 Project Tab

The Project Tab contains preferences related to the current HAP project only. Currently this tab

provides options for:

 Ventilation Defaults. Choose whether ventilation defaults should be based on ASHRAE Standard

62-2001, ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2004, ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2007 or "User-Defined". Typically this choice is made at the start of a project since it affects how data is entered for spaces and systems.

requirements by selecting a space usage type. In addition, options will be offered in system inputs for calculating ventilation airflow requirements that comply with the Standard. When you choose "User-Defined", you will always be required to specify space ventilation requirements yourself and the only ventilation calculation option will be "Sum of Space OA Airflows".

 Energy Standard. Choose whether the energy standard used in this project will be ASHRAE 90.1- 2004 or ASHRAE 90.1-2007. This choice affects how HAP defaults minimum efficiencies for equipment. When the "ASHRAE Minimum Eqpt Efficiency" option is selected, instead of directly specify equipment performance values like kW, EER, COP, SEER or HSPF or average efficiency (%), the program will default efficiencies based on the ASHRAE 90.1 standard you select. In addition, you choice of the ASHRAE 90.1 standard here will determine the LEED® Rating System used in the project. Because each LEED® rating system relates to a specific edition of ASHRAE Standard 90.1, the two choices must be synchronized. ASHRAE 90.1-2004 is paired with LEED NC- 2.2. ASHRAE 90.1-2007 is paired with LEED 2009.

 LEED® Rating System. Choose whether the LEED® rating system used in this project will be LEED NC-2.2 or LEED 2009. This choice affects how the LEED EA Credit 1 Summary report is formatted. Formatting is customized to the rating system you select. As noted in the previous bullet, HAP automatically synchronizes the ASHRAE 90.1 energy standard with your LEED® Rating system choice.

 Currency Units. Specify the currency symbol or abbreviation to be used in this project. This input

will be used for all program inputs and results involving cost. For example, if you specify "$" as the currency units, all energy and fuel prices will be based on $ and all energy cost reports will display costs in units of $.

A.20.3 Command Buttons

Finally, the form contains three buttons in the lower right-hand corner:

 Press the OK button to apply any changes you’ve made to the preferences and then exit..  Press the Cancel button to exit without applying changes you’ve made to preferences.  Press the Help button to display the overview help topic for this window.

This appendix describes procedures used to perform various project management tasks. As noted in Chapter 1, a project is a container for data from HAP and other Carrier programs. HAP provides a wide variety of options for managing this data.

B.1 CREATING A NEW PROJECT

A new project is typically created when starting a design job. The project will serve as the container for all your input and calculation data for the job. To create a new project:

 Choose the New option on the Project Menu.

 If changes to the current project have not yet been saved, HAP will ask you if you want to save the current project before creating a new one.

 Then a new “Untitled” project will be created. No data for this project will be permanently stored until the first time you use the Save option on the Project Menu.

 When you choose the Save option on the Project Menu, you’ll be asked to name the project.

B.2 OPENING AN EXISTING PROJECT

Before you can enter data, edit data and generate reports for an existing project, you first need to open the project:

 Choose the Open option on the Project Menu.

 The Open Project window will appear. It contains a list of all existing projects arranged in alphabetical order. Select the desired project from this list.

 If changes to the current project have not yet been saved, HAP will ask you if you want to save the current project before opening another one.