Change cut height and representation.................................................................................................. 20
Entering floor plan ................................................................................................................................. 21
Add formwork elements manually ........................................................................................................ 38
Create a wall view of wall 7 ................................................................................................................... 40
Assign adjustable props and platform brackets .................................................................................... 41
Manually delete and add individual accessories ................................................................................... 42
Calculate material list ............................................................................................................................ 43
Back to the drawing ............................................................................................................................... 44
Insert standard section and text ........................................................................................................... 47
Insert material list ................................................................................................................................. 48
Print Plan Layout ................................................................................................................................... 48
You start PPL 12.0 by double-clicking on the JAVA link, which is located on your desktop after the
installation. After double-clicking the login window opens.
Log In
Enter your username (Benutzername) and password (Kennwort) here. (The standard installation of PPL 12.0 is delivered with the log in ppladmin / admin4ppl) PPL 12.0 consists of two modules. The module "Warehouse" (an integrated project, drawing and warehouse management) and the formwork planning module "Design".
The program starts in the project overview in the module "Warehouse".
In this mask, new projects are created and existing projects managed. In order for a new formwork plan to be created, a project must have been created here before.
first record new record previous record save data next record delete data
last record print data
Mask „Project“
The mask is structured, in the upper part the data header. Here the project data can be entered and changed. In the list area below, the projects are displayed. The data header contains the data of the project selected in the list area. The data header can be hidden via the icon and displayed again via the icon
The project data are sorted into the following areas and tabs.
Project: Project, Customer or (client), Project address and Contact Planning: Formwork plan, Material list, Shortage, Phase info wall, Phase info slab Delivery: Items, Delivery, Delivery items, Generate return, Return, Return items Warehouse stock: shows the current stock at the construction site
Create a new project
Click on the icon in the Project tab (icon blank sheet). The fields in the header are emptied.
Enter the appropriate data in the Project section. The fields Project Name (*) and Project part (*) are
mandatory fields.
In the section Customer an existing customer can be selected,
or open the customer master with the icon and create a new customer in the master data.
The "Property Filter" can be activated with the "F9" key. To display and list the DXF, DWG layer or IFC classes (if available), press the "F9" key repeatedly. You can toggle between the „Toolbox“ and the „Properties Filter“ by activating the respective tab. Several drawings can be opened at the same time, click with the mouse on the drawing tab to switch between the drawings. Click on the "x" in the drawing
tab to close a drawing.
Menu bar
Toolbar
Properties
Toolbox
Property filter
Drawing window
Library for Formwork, Accessories and Symbols
Cut height Information bar
Drawing window
The orange border indicates that this window is active.
There are various functions that are addressed directly with the mouse.
Left mouse button
Simple left mouse click on an item:
The selected item is marked. Other elements can be selected additionally. To do this press <Ctrl> and continue to select elements. If an already selected element is re-selected, this element will be removed from the selection.
The simple click with the left mouse button corresponds to a <Enter>.
If a command is active (for example: wall), the system takes over the position of the mouse as the wall length, the wall is drawn thereafter.
Simple left click into the drawing window (the mouse button must be held), opens a selection window. the size of the window is determined by letting go of the mouse button.
The selection is determined by the direction:
From top left to right bottom (green selection box), all elements that are completely within the
box are marked. From bottom right to left top (red selection box), all elements that are cut through the
selection box are marked.
Mouse wheel
Dynamic zoom
If the wheel is rotated forward, the drawing is enlarged.
If the wheel is turned backwards, the drawing is reduced.
Press the space bar to repeat this function, the „Constr. Line“ command is active again. Select the horizontal wall end of wall number 4, move the mouse down and enter the distance of 155 via keyboard.
Confirm with OK or <Enter>
Switch back to the toolbox tab „Wall 3D“ and select the function „Wall“.
Move the mouse pointer to the lower-right corner of the wall, the system offers you a snap point (red circle), confirm it with the left mouse button. Move the pointer left down to the intersection of the construction lines (red circle). To confirm click the left mouse button.
Inner wall 8
Select the „Wall“ function again.
Move the mouse pointer on the inside of wall number 6 (left half). The blue input field is active on the left side.
The red cross on the left edge of the wall shows you the wall justification. With the right mouse button, the context menu now can be opened and with "flip wall site <f>" the orientation can be changed.
Move the mouse up and enter the wall length of 300 cm via keyboard
Change wall direction and wall side (orientation) In different cases it may be necessary to reverse the wall direction (A) (B). You can activate a wall and
open the menu with the right mouse button. Select Reverse wall to change the wall beginning (A)
and wall end (B).
If the orientation of the wall (after a DXF file import for example) central or different, the walls can
be marked and the orientation adjusted in the "Properties".
In wall 1, a door and a window opening should be inserted.
To do this, select the opening function in the "Wall 3D" toolbox. Now move the mouse pointer over the properties window and click in the field "Length" and enter 200 via the keyboard. Switch to the „Height“ field with the <Tab> key. Repeat this for the „Top elevation“.
After completing the door opening settings, move the mouse pointer to the inside of wall 1. The system offers you a blue input field, enter 100 via keyboard.
Confirm your input with <Enter>
Further opening (window)
Press the space bar. This activates the last command "opening". In the „Properties“ field, modify the Length = 100, Height = 100 and Bottom elevation = 100. Move the mouse pointer to the inside of wall 1. The system offers you the blue input field, Confirm 340,0 with <Enter> (from the left end of the wall).
Switch to the isometric view for control. To do this, click on one of the icons in the toolbar The two openings were inserted in the wall 1.
Click „Wall dimensions“ in the toolbox „Walls 3D“.
The wall dimensions are created.
The automatically generated wall dimension can be edited. Move the mouse pointer over a dimension line and click with the left mouse button.
Delete the intermediate measure 10.5 cm and then mark the dimension line 189.5 to the left of it.
Then klick withe the left mouse button on the left gripp point (blue) and while holding down the mouse button, move the Gripp point to the right to the end point of the dimension line 165,0.
The system asks to enter the first point of the dimension. Click with the left mouse button on the lower left corner. Danach fragt das System nach dem zweiten Punkt der Bemaßung. Click on the upper right point.
Finally, the distance of the dimension must be entered.
In the status bar the system guides you through the functions.
The automatic dimensions can be completely deleted in the step "Drawing" with the command "Delete wall dimensioning" in one step.
Click on "CAD Options" to change the style and spacing of the dimensioning.
If the checkmark is set to "Update automatically", the dimensioning automatically adapts to the floor plan changes.
Divide floor plan into two faces To insert separator phases, we use the function „Separator phases“ from the Toolbox „Walls 3D“.
Activate the function and move the mouse pointer to the outside of wall 5.
The system offers you the familiar blue input field. Use the keyboard to enter the distance to the right side of the wall = 100 cm. Confirm your input with <Enter> The separator (symbol) then is drawn.
Specify phase order
The plan is to be switched in two phases, the lower section should be phase 1 and the upper section phase 2.
Activate any wall in the upper area.
The wall is highlighted in yellow and its features are displayed in the properties window. Click with the left mouse button in the property window beside the field "Phase No.". This opens a selection box. Click with the mouse on Phase 2.
The phases are displayed in different colors, as specified in the CAD options. Here, the colors can also be re-assigned.
Calculate formwork To do this, select the function "Calculate formwork" in the "Walls Formwork" toolbox. The dialog box "Formwork systems and phases" will be opened.
Click in the selection box "Select formwork systems" and then click with the left mouse button on LOGO.
Confirm your selection with OK.
The formwork is now calculated and displayed in the drawing window.
(If a different formwork system has already been calculated before, the checkmark for "Use for next calculation" must be activated and another formwork system selected.)
In our example, the formwork of wall 7b is initially not displayed. move the mouse pointer to the section plane in the status bar,and double-click. Then change the section plane to 40 cm in the dialog box.
Move the mouse pointer to wall 7a and press the left mouse button. Move the mouse pointer to wall 7b and press the left mouse button. (both walls are now marked yellow)
Move the mouse pointer to the left side of the wall, red arrows appear as a line of sight.
Now click with the left mouse button to the left of the wall.
The view of wall 7, looking from the outside.
The wall view must be closed using the "Wall view off" function.
Select the function "Assign platform bracket" via the menu bar. The system hides the formwork and symbolically represents the tread.
Move the mouse pointer to the left side of the wall, red or green arrows are displayed. Red arrows mean to remove the platform brackets on this side, green arrows mean to add platform brackets on this side.
Then delete the accessories and re-calculate the accessories.
ATTENTION! Manually placed formwork would be lost by using "Calculate Formwork".
Manually delete and add individual accessories
Use the left mouse button to highlight the platform bracket and use the <Del> key to delete it.
To insert accessories manually, you can add parts from the library. For this select the accessory folder with the desired formwork system. Double-click (left mouse button) to select the element.
The accessory can now be placed in a suitable place.
The manual insert can also be done in working view.
Tirerods, accessories, adjustable props and platform brackets can be hidden in the model and plan. (The parts are however counted in the material list)
Calculate material list To calculate the material list, use the "Calculate material list" function in the Walls Formwork toolbox. Then the system changes to the folder "Warehouse" and to the Material list.
Manually change the calculated quantity
Double-click on the cell and change the existing value to the new quantity.
The line with the total amount is updated by saving.
The dialog box „Plan 1“ opens. Here you have the option of choosing the language, the orientation of the sheet (Portrait or Landscape) and the size of the sheet.
Different Title Blocks can be chosen. How to create your own, you can find in a separate documentation. (ajust title block)
If the check mark "Top view not shaded (lines only)" is set, the floor plan will only be drawn with lines (not colored) and it will be optimized for a small print size.
Close your entry with OK (Plan 1 is being created)
Then select the plan and left-click on "Open".
PPL opens an empty plan with margin and title block.
Choose the command Create Viewport.
PPL 12.0 opens the Create Viewport dialog box.
Select the phase you want to show here. In our case (phase) 1
Klick on Visibility.
In this dialog box you make the following settings.
The "phase" hangs on the mouse pointer. Move the mouse pointer to the upper left corner of the plan and put the "Viewport" with a click on the left mouse button.
Select "Create viewport" again for phase 2
and make the following settings in the visibilitys.
Create wall view for wall 1
Select "Wall view" and move the mouse pointer to wall 7a and click with the left mouse button. Then move the mouse pointer to wall 7b and click again with the left mouse button. Move the mouse pointer to the left of the wall and choose the direction of view. Click the left mouse button again to create the view and the viewport hangs on the mouse pointer.
Represent "phase 2" in isometric view in the new viewport
Select "Create viewport" again, activate Phase number 2 in the dialog box „Visibility“ and make the following settings.
Double-click in this viewport. This will activate the Vieport and the border color changes.
Now use the icon
„ISO (nw)“
With a double-click outside the viewport, the process can be completed.
Open the symbol library. To do this, double-click on the folders Symbol library, 30_LOGO_EN and 270 and then double-click on "01_Section_270".
After double-clicking, the standard section "hangs" on the mouse pointer. Move the cursor into the plan and put down the section with a click of the left mouse button.
You can use the Text function in the Draw menu to add text to the formwork layout.
If a text is activated in the plan, it can be changed in the "Properties" window.
By clicking on the arrow in the properties, a mask is opened in which multi-line text can also be entered.
Insert material list To be able to insert a material list, it must first have been calculated.
Then select the command „Insert material list“.
The material list "hangs" as a preview on the mouse pointer, move the mouse pointer into the upper right corner and put down the material list with a click of the left mouse button.
Finished plan 1, with the representation of phase 1 and phase 2, view wall 7 and 3D view wall 1 as well as the material list and standard cuts and texts.
Zu einem Modell können beliebig viele Pläne erstellt werden.
Print Plan Layout If the plan layout is complete, it can be printed with the function "Print current document".
At the menu item "File" you will find the possibility to import or export files. Different file formats are available for import and export.
To create a PPL file, left-click the Export function. Then select the format "PPL File", assign a name and save the file in the desired folder.
To import a PPL file, you must first create a new drawing. Then click on the Import function, select the appropriate file and confirm with "Öffnen". For importing and exporting the available file formats, select the desired file type and proceed as described above.
