Positioning components closely together
Changing the layout to fine-grained might make it easier for you to position a component against another. Before moving the floor-mounted equipment in the layout, select Planning > Data Center in the Application bar and select to view a room in Floor Layout (by double-clicking the room that you want to add equipment to in Navigation).
- Drag the component icon into the position in the floor layout that matches its position in the data center:
When you drag equipment, green highlights where it can be placed; red highlights where it cannot. - If you cannot move the components close enough to one another, you can change the grid layout to fine-grained in the floor properties and use the snap to grid option to be able to move the components along the fine-grained grid lines.
- Right-click the floor layout and select Properties > Floor, and then select Fine-grained Grid layout.
- Right-click the component icon and select Snap to grid.
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Drag the component icon to the position of your choice.
Tip
You can move multiple items at the same time by using Ctrl-click or Shift-click.
Aligning selected components in the floor layout
- Select multiple pieces of equipment by using Ctrl+click or Shift+click.
- Right-click and select Align Equipment.
This is useful, for example if you have imported a big data center layout with some misaligned equipment.
Adding selected components to a new row
- Select multiple pieces of equipment by using Ctrl+click or Shift+click.
- Right-click and select Add to New Row.
You have moved the selected equipment into a new row in the floor layout. The new row fits the equipment.
This is useful to quickly create rows and position equipment, for example if you have a layout with both horizontal and vertical rows.
