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VT Planner User Guide
VT Planner user guide for modeling buildings, configuring elevator groups, running traffic and energy simulations, and reviewing traceable results.
VT Planner keeps the building, elevator alternatives, analysis assumptions, run history, and reports for a study together in one project.
Use this guide to work with building-specific traffic profiles, Advanced custom demand, car-specific elevator settings, operational-energy estimates, stair-use assumptions, reproducible multi-run simulation, charts, replay, audit data, and account management.
Main Workflow
- Create a project to group the study.
- Define and save the building: floors, entrances, heights, and population.
- Create one or more elevator setups for that saved building.
- Choose the demand and run a calculation, simulation, or multi-run simulation.
- Review the saved scenario snapshot, metrics, charts, replay, and exports.
Choose the Right Starting Page
- New to VT Planner: First analysis.
- Preparing the demand model: Building and Building demand model.
- Configuring cars and service: Elevator setups and Zoning and transfers.
- Choosing a study method: Analysis.
- Estimating energy during a simulated period: Operational energy.
- Using percentage-based demand: Standard traffic profiles.
- Building a time-varying OD schedule: Advanced custom demand.
- Interpreting a study: Analysis controls and interpretation and Results.
- Resolving a blocked action or partial run: Troubleshooting.
Before You Start
You need an active account with permission to create projects and run analyses. New accounts confirm their email, accept the legal terms, complete their profile, choose a unit system, and activate the trial before the project list opens.
Read-only access keeps available project data open for review. Project creation and analysis launch require writable access. See Account and support for plan status, usage, password, and support options.