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Change the panel after the roof is laid out

Panels on the roof are placed in one panel’s size. If you pick a panel of another size afterwards, the old ones turn red and the calculator stops. Press Re-lay out in the roof editor to place the new panel on those faces.

The panel is shared by the calculator and the roof editor. A different panel is often a different size, and the old layout may not fit — so Cali-Graf doesn’t just multiply the old count by the new wattage.

What you seeWhat to do
The panel changed to …You’ll see this at the top of the roof editor. The panels laid out for the old size are red. Press Re-lay out: Cali-Graf fills those faces again with the new panel and tells you how many fit.
The panel changed after the roof was laid out: …The calculator shows this instead of results. Open the roof editor with Edit design ↗ and press Re-lay out — or choose the panel the roof was laid out for.

What Re-lay out does

It fills again only the faces that have panels of the old size, the same way Fill roof (X) does: around setbacks, pathways and obstacles, in the orientation you picked. Panels you moved by hand on those faces are placed anew. Faces with no old-size panels stay as they are.

Avoid it

Choose the panel before filling the roof — see Choose the panel for the layout. To compare two panel models for the customer, make a copy of the calculation and change the panel in the copy: Compare options for one customer.

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