QUICK-Guide. Version 2.4

QUICK-Guide Version 2.4

1 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 Content 1. Installation... 1 2. Preparation - Project Properties... 1 2.a Attachment of maps... 3 3. Projecting... 5 3.a Inserting objects... 6 4. Calculations and Printout... 9 5. The objects in WindPRO... 11 6. Additional guided tours without predefined maps... 12 6.a Without background map, but height contour lines as "background map"... 12 6.b Defining your own crude background map with local coordinates... 13 1. Installation WindPRO is a true 32 bit program which can only run under Windows 98/ME and NT/2000/XP. An absolute minimum of 400 MB free hard disk space is needed. After installation, check that minimum 100 MB is free. If not there might be problems running WindPRO! For 3D-Animator Windows 2000/XP and 3D-accelerated graphics card is strongly recommended. If you install from an "original" WindPRO CD-ROM you just insert the CD-ROM, and installation will start automatically after selecting "install WindPRO" from the menu. From a DOWNLOAD or from CD-ROM, where WindPRO just is one of many applications, you need finding the SETUP.EXE file and run this. The install action program will guide you through the installation on the screen. The default folder for WindPRO is: c:\program Files\EMD\WindPRO2.4\. Start-up of WindPRO. WindPRO is started by entering the Start menu and click the EMD WindPRO2 start icon. You can directly start in the relevant language, e.g. WindPRO 2.4 (English) or chose the simple "WindPRO 2.4", which gives you a "flag avenue" to select the language. Step-by-step test of WindPRO s capabilities. 2. Preparation - Project Properties This will guide you through a minimum test, where you will use the enclosed scanned and coordinate set maps for a DEMO. At the end of this quick guide there are two small tests, one where you create a project without background map and one where you create and set coordinate on a scanned bitmap map with "primitive" local coordinates. The Globe Project Explorer: A useful tool for managing your projects. Click on a country see the name of the country in the "Find country" field. Write a name of a country in the "Find country" field see the country on the Globe. Add a user layer:

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 2 Select the "WindPRO Data\Globe\Europe\Europeanwindatlas.shp" Click on a colour region and see country and wind speed interval at the same time in the "search user layer field". Remove the "checkmark" next to "find country" now only the user layer is visible (this is often of much higher quality for a local region). Now you have an idea which possibilities the globe offers you explore to see further details later. Back to creating a project: Find the site on the globe by zooming. Select the "new project" crosshair by clicking it. Place the crosshair next to the coloured spot at the "nose tip" of Jutland, Denmark (Ebeltoft). This is where your first test will take place since the background maps for this place is included in the installation. After marking the correct place (with a left mouse click with the crosshair), click the "create new project" button: Select the folder WindPRO Data\samples\Ebeltoft\ for your new project and name it "My first test". (Normally you should create a new folder for each new project you make in order to keep all project relevant data together).

3 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 If you did not choose a country but instead placed the crosshair in the water, you must manually select the country. Go to the tab sheet Coordinate System. Select the UTM ED50 zone 32, which means that you work between longitude 6 and 12 degrees East of Greenwich (where Denmark and your DEMO example is sited.). WindPRO will automatically find the relevant zone based on the position of the project site on the globe. Now click on the tab sheet Background Maps. 2.a Attachment of maps Adding Maps Using bitmap background maps is one of the great advantages when working with WindPRO - and we recommend you to add some (the software can be used without digital background maps, see paragraph 6). Many predefined formats can be added as georeferenced maps or you can define your own scanned maps yourself with the MAP DEF tool. For the DEMO tour, there are already some georeferenced maps available saved as.bmi files. Therefore double click on the icon BMI file and then browse from directory:

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 4 C:\ \WindPRO Data\samples\Ebeltoft\ Select the following files: Ebe25k.bmi Click OK and double click again on the BMI file button and select: Ebe500k.bmi You now have 2 maps in different scales, which can be used for the project. Now click on one of the maps in the list to highlight it, and then on View/set site centre. The highlighted map from your list is then loaded. If your original site centre (made with the crosshair on the globe) is outside the attached map, the globe will be shown as background, and the map borders as rectangles. Click now inside the map rectangle to move the site centre inside and click the map-button above the globe in the upper left corner. Push the map around by holding down the left mouse button while moving the mouse. Find the harbour at Ebeltoft.

5 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 With a single click with the left mouse button, when the mouse is held completely calm, a red X can be placed - this is your Site center, and it means that this point will be centered on the screen when maps are loaded later on. If you want to change the site center, just mark another location. Click OK to the map viewer and then OK in the main form and leave Project Properties. You can always return to this menu by clicking on: 3. Projecting You have now returned to WindPRO s main menu: Projecting WTGs on maps begins with loading your maps - click the globe icon for loading the first one. Click the second globe icon (see icons below) to proceed with map readings (you can click on the 2 map button before first map is fully loaded). If you have more very large map files, take a cup of coffee while the maps are being loaded - it may take about one minute, depending on your computer and the size of the maps.

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 6 When the maps are loaded, you can switch quickly between the two maps by clicking on either one of the map bottoms. Switch now to map button 1 where the detailed map is and where your projecting will be performed. 3.a Inserting objects New WTGs are created simply by left click on the "new WTG" symbol in right button column and then left click on to the desired position on the map. Create a row by selecting a number of WTGs > 1 in the WTG-properties which appear after clicking the WTG onto the map. Insert new WTGs. The WTG type is selected from the WTG Catalog via the list box. The 10 last used will appear in the drop down list selecting "<more WTGs>" give you access to the complete WTG Catalog. By defining search profiles it is fast to find the desired WTG for any calculation.

7 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 For rows of WTGs the following rules apply: Drag the center selection mark to move the row parallel. Drag an outer selection mark to rotate the row around the opposite outer selection mark. Hold down the <shift> key while dragging an outer selection mark to change the in-row distance. NB: In general for all objects on maps: Click one time on an object to activate it (selection marks will appear) - then position the cursor inside one of the selection marks - press and hold down left mouse button and then drag the object to move it! A click with the right mouse button gives you access to Object Properties. After having sited your WTGs you need to decide which types of calculations you wish to perform: energy production, noise, visualization, etc. The types of calculations determine which additional objects you will need. To give you an idea of how this works, we will in the following describe one of the very simple ones, ENERGY calculation, based on measured mean wind speed at the wind farm. Choose the Meteo Object and place it where the wind measurements were made (assume that these were on shore, just to the right of the wind farm). Set Height above ground level to 10 meters. Then select Weibull and set number of sectors to 1.

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 8 Here you select Mean Wind Speed - and enter the values as shown above (Mean Wind Speed = 7, k- parameter = 2 and frequency = 1)). Test the Graphics and take a look at the graphs. Click OK and you now have the necessary data for a very simple ENERGY calculation. Your map could now look like this, where a row of 4 WTGs and a Meteo object are placed. Please notice that the WindPRO software now knows the coordinates of your objects. This is important information for later calculations, documentation for authorities etc.

9 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 4. Calculations and Printout When all the necessary objects have been created you can return to the WindPRO main menu by clicking the calculation tree button. A calculation is started by clicking the green or yellow button (arrow) next to the required calculation. NB: Non-licensed modules will appear with a yellow button indicating that you cannot perform calculations with these modules. Select: PARK (Energy, Wind Farm..) You can now choose some different calculation set up values, but the default values are normally good enough just click the OK button and the calculation will begin. Please note again! From a DEMO version you will not be able to perform the calculation. Instead you have the opportunity to open the help file with the module descriptions and print the examples.

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 10 When the calculation is finished, you can print reports by selecting the report name (click the first line for an entire report or another line for just one of the pages) and then click the printer icon. Or, for a fast preview, double-click on one of the report names in the list. If you are keen on studying more facilities in WindPRO, please feel free to create some of the other objects on your map described on next page and test the many facilities (just click the globe button to return to the map):

11 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 5. The objects in WindPRO New WTG create single WTG or row with equal spacing. Link to the comprehensive WTG catalogue, where all data for energy, noise, flicker, visualisation and economic is/can be given. Existing WTG to this statistic information (actual energy production) can be added and when calculating energy you quickly see if your calculated level is OK. Existing WTGs has another status in calculation than new WTGs and is grouped separately in the PARK print out. Park Design Only available with OPTIMIZE license. Create large wind farm layouts with multiple rows in strictly geometric patterns (for example off-shore). Together with the WTG area object, the Park design object can "auto-realize" WTGs limited to non-restricted areas. Site Data input of local terrain (roughness etc.) and regional wind statistics. When WAsP is connected, it is possible to link digital height contour maps and roughness lines. Used for ATLAS, WAsP interface, RESOURCE and PARK). Meteo Object to import or enter measured wind data for generating wind statistics or directly for energy calculation based on the measured wind data. Plenty of data import and analyse features. Noise Sensitive Area for calculation of noise (DECIBEL) at specific positions (neighbours). WAsP Obstacle to be used in energy calculations using WAsP as calculation engine. Camera Object contains all data for a PHOTOMONTAGE, position and photo direction, the background photo, the camera parameters (focal length, film format), weather conditions etc. Control Point to be used when calibrating camera models for PHOTOMONTAGE. Shadow Receptor for calculation of flickering (SHADOW) at specific positions (neighbours). Line Object makes it possible to digitise/edit contour lines on-screen for use as digital height contour lines, roughness lines etc. Object can import lines from different databases/file formats. 3D-visualization Object makes it possible to render "free figures", drawn from Autocad (*.DXF files) into a photomontage or 3D-animation. Area Object For digitising areas (polygons), e.g. forests, water, cities, farmland. The data can be used for multiple purposes; export of roughness lines, for ZVI, UMBRA and WIndPLAN calculations. Result Layer Presentation of grid data, typically wind resource maps but also shadow calculation results, noise isoline maps, ZVI maps etc. Advanced colour set-up. WTG Area Creates boundaries for WTG projects. For each section design options can be set as number of WTGs, installed power and minimum distance requirements. Used by OPTIMIZE and WindPLAN. Text object Create a text on the background map. Measure object Create a measure tool for distance measurements. VR object contains all data for a 3D-Animation (Virtual Reality), like size of area, sky background, surface texture etc. Shape tool draw a rectangle or circle on the map as support for layout or measuring. The tools can be used for other features like the terrain profile (WindPLAN). Lock this is NOT an object but a tool to lock/unlock a certain map area. Locking a map improves the speed with which you can work with maps on-screen

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 12 6. Additional guided tours without predefined maps 6.a Without background map, but height contour lines as "background map". Repeat step 1 and 2 until 2.a Attachments of map. Instead of attaching a map, just click "OK" and click on the globe. Now a "blank map" is loaded. Select the Line Object. Click on the symbol and place the line object on the map near the site centre. Choose purpose: Height contour lines and click on "Load file". Find the file: \WindPRO Data\Samples\ Ebel_oro.map and load it. Now the screen should look like this: Note: If you do not see any height contour lines, your "site centre" might be wrong right click at the orange crosshair and adjust coordinates to: x = 605 450 y = 6 225 630. Then right click inside the map window and select "Centre site". Please note, that the software calculates "Triangular Irregular Network"(TIN), which is a height model where all points are used for creating triangles. This makes the software ready for calculating the Z-level (altitude) at any point inside the TIN radius (the yellow circle), which by default is 3000 m, but can be changed in the Object Properties in the tab sheet "Presentation". Move the cursor around and see in the bottom of the window how the Z-value is updated. You are now ready to continue from step 3.a Inserting objects with a project without background maps.

13 WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 6.b Defining your own crude background map with local coordinates Repeat step 1 and 2 until "select coordinate system" choose instead of UTMED50, the "local" coordinate system, see below: Just keep the proposed settings, which means that your local coordinate system is centred with origin (0,0) where you created your project on the globe. Attachments of map with local (user defined) coordinate system. Note: this method is only for crude projecting, where you do not know the "real" coordinate system normally you need finding the real coordinate system for your map and use this for defining the map. In the tab sheet "Background Maps", double click on MAP DEF icon and choose the file: \WindPRO Data\Samples\ Ebel_50k.pcx Click the 3 points shown successively on the below map. Enter the x,y values: 1: 0,0 2: 6000,2000 3: 2000,5000 Note, that x,y values HAVE TO be in meters and reflect the real distances on the map.

WindPRO 2.4 QUICK-Guide March 2004 14 Click the tab sheet "Result" and see if your coordinate setting is acceptable. Below 1% is "fine", 1-3% "acceptable" higher values will be rejected and you need finding the mistake. Click "OK", save and name the file with the name "test" with a map scale of 1:50 000. The file is now converted from a.pxf file (only graphic) to two files, a.bmi with the coordinate information and a.b0, which is just a copy of the original.pcx file. WindPRO always saves background maps in.pcx format, also if loaded from.bmp,.jpg,.tif or other graphic formats. Now just click "OK" and then the globe and you are ready to proceed from 3.a, Insert objects. But once again we must recommend only to use the simple local coordinate settings, when there are no possibilities of using the "real coordinates" later on you might receive some data logged with a GPS or height contours from a GIS system or planning data from a municipality they will not "fit" your local coordinate system.

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