301 — Place Panel, in cv-web

Tutorial 300 says which panels belong on a wall run. This one says where a panel actually sits.

Note

This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.

Pick the panel first

Place Panel works on whichever panel is active. Choose one in Panel mode, then switch to Elevations and open Elevations → Place Panel.

With no panel chosen there is nothing to place, and the dialog does not open. If it seems to do nothing, that is why.

Three numbers

X Position	across the site, in feet
Y Position	up the site, in feet
Rotation	degrees

The dialog title names the panel you are placing — Place Panel: <mark> — so there is no doubt which one you have.

Warning

These are feet and degrees. The rest of Site Setup is inches. Grid spacings, grid offsets and wall elevations are all inches. Carry a number across without converting and you are out by a factor of twelve.

Check it somewhere else

The dialog closing is not proof that anything was saved. Open File → Export Site DXF and read the count:

1 panel placement(s) included.

That number comes from the export, which had no hand in making the placement — so it is worth more than the dialog’s own silence. If it still says 0, nothing was placed, whatever the screen looked like.

The part worth understanding

There are two things in cv-web that look like placing a panel, and only one of them places anything.

Panels on a wall run (Site Setup)	the plan for that run — drawn as a label on the wall line
Place Panel (here)	the placement — an actual position for one panel

Listing a mark against a wall run does not put that panel anywhere. It records which panels belong to the run, and the site plan draws the list along the wall so you can read the intent.

Place Panel is what counts downstream. It is what the cast layout reads, and what goes out in the DXF and the PDF export. A site with marks listed and nothing placed will export no placements at all.

How this differs from AutoCAD

cv-cad places panels by attaching them along a wall line. cv-web places one panel at an absolute point.

Same intent, different mechanism — so expect the steps to differ, not just the screen. This is one of the places where the two products genuinely do not mirror each other, and saying so is more useful than pretending the difference is cosmetic.

What to take away

The plan and the placement are two different records. Marks on a run say what belongs there; Place Panel says where it is. Only the second one leaves the drawing.