Concepts

Coverage field

How far a device reaches, drawn to the sheet's scale as a soft fill: each Wi-Fi band of an access point, and a camera's field of view.

A coverage field shows how far a device reaches. An access point has one for each Wi-Fi band — 6 GHz, 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz, each its own colour — and a camera one along its aim, its field of view. A Wi-Fi band is even over most of its reach and then fades to nothing, with no line; a camera's view is strongest at the camera and fades with distance, a thin line along each side of its angle.

A calibrated field follows the sheet’s scale. Without a scale, coverage follows icon size as an approximation. Set a scale for accurate distances; conflicting blueprint scales must be resolved first. Every access point and camera starts with its type's reach; Properties can give one its own.

Fields are separate from the icon. Choose which show in Equipment or Views for the selected view. Owners and Editors save the choice automatically; Viewers change only their temporary display. New PDF and presentation pages use their view's saved settings, including Default. New output labels estimates “Approx. coverage”. Existing published pages and issued versions keep their content.

Tasks: Show Wi-Fi coverage, show a camera's field of view.