Settings

Yours, not the project's: they apply to every model and every tool on this computer. One Save keeps every section.
designPH shading analysis

designPH starts every session at "Centre point" and mask resolution 15, and doesn't remember your choice. With the tick on, designPH always uses the settings below: they are set as soon as designPH starts and before every analysis, and designPH's own two drop-downs are locked to them. Untick to choose in designPH again.

Points on each window
Shading mask resolution
designPH now
Keep SketchUp quick with designPH open

Once designPH has analysed a big model it re-checks everything on every selection and edit, and SketchUp gets slow. With the tick on, that's paused while designPH is open - it comes back on by itself for "Run designPH analysis" and the Certifier Shading Report. designPH's panels then don't follow your selection: the "Pause designPH Watching" button on the toolbar switches it back on until designPH next starts.

Support

When a tool fails, the error and where it happened (with the extension, SketchUp and system versions) are noted in a small log in your settings folder - never model content, file contents or client details. Nothing is sent by itself: Extensions › BPA Tools for designPH › Send Support Log… puts a copy on your Desktop and opens an email to gday@buildingphysics.au for you to attach it.

The parties that stay the same from project to project. PHPP Sync starts every new project with these on PHPP's Verification sheet (a project can still change its own). Leave a party blank to skip it.

Where reports are saved
Offer this folder first

Every PDF, CSV and report folder starts here; you can still pick another place each time.

Window Shading Report
Accuracy
Photo out of each window
Keep designPH's results (its window shading, saved with the model whenever you save while designPH is open - so reports need no new analysis next session)
Window Schedule: temporary shading z (%, PHPP) %
Flywire: temporary sun protection z (regulated - summer only; PHPP Shading AJ/AK) %
Cost hint in the Window Study ($ per m² of window, installed - blank: no cost shown)flyscreen $ · temporary shading $

The Window Schedule's own drop-down starts from these too.

Backups
Backups kept beside each PHPP the newest (1-50); one is made before every write to a PHPP
designPH .ppp export conversion
designPH's thermal bridge rows

The choice offered first when converting a .ppp export.

PHPP Sync defaults for new models

Set from a model you like with Make my defaults in PHPP Sync (surface radiation, extract rooms, ducts, heat generators, summer ventilation, photo, heat capacity).

Saved now

What Path to Passivhaus (PHPP Variants, tab 4) starts with in a model that hasn't run it yet. A model keeps whatever it last ran with.

Upgrades to try
Elements
Insulation steps of R up to +R m²K/W
Window frames, in order
Glazing bands (Ug)
Temporary sun protection
z when shut % of the sun let through
Overheating target ≤ %
Window Report capture (designPH screenshots)

The Window Report (step 1, designPH screenshots) remembers where designPH's "Analyse selected window" button is and which areas of its window go in the report. Reset them if designPH's window has moved or changed size, or captures come out cut off.

Saved now
Licence
Status
trial, activate, move to another computer, renew