The Detailed Project Report

The Detailed Project Report is the document the rest of a project is run from: a written overview and methodology, the design basis, the results, the energy yield and loss analysis, and then the drawing annexures — the site layout plan, the design summary, the single-line diagram, the bill of materials and the energy drawings — in one file. It is a Word document (.docx), so the narrative can be edited, stamped and issued in your own document system after export.

It is written from Export ▾ ▸ Export Detailed Project Report. What it contains depends on how much of the design you have completed: the report writes what exists. An energy calculation you have not run is a section that is absent, with no placeholder.

The Export menu

Export ▾ sits beside Save project at the right of the view tabs, in every view, and holds every file export. See Views for the header it belongs to.

Every export needs active access, and all are disabled while a run is in progress. The status line confirms each one — "Document exported: …" for the report, "PDF exported: …" for the PDF with piles. See Activating access.

Some exports live elsewhere because they belong to a tool: the bill of materials and the single-line diagram have their own buttons on their tools panels, the pile editor has Export to Excel…, and the Yield tab has Export TMY data CSV.

The document

Choose Export ▾ ▸ Export Detailed Project Report and the Save Word Document dialog asks where to put the file. The document is A3 landscape throughout, with 12 mm margins and the footer "Rensaar Private Limited — Detailed Project Report" on every page.

Exporting is a read of the current session. It adds nothing to the plant and changes nothing, so you can export as often as you like while you work.

The content, in order

The design basis section is the reason the document matters even when the drawing is the deliverable: it records the inputs the drawing was produced under, so a design issued today can be reconciled with one revisited months later.

The drawing annexures are the same pages the PDF export draws, so the images on this page — taken from the PDF with piles — show what the Word document's annexures look like.

The site layout plan

The layout itself, drawn to fill the sheet, inside a drawing border with a north arrow at the top right, a plant-details table and a title block.

What the drawing shows and hides is fixed, whatever the Layers popover is set to. When the drawing is written the application hides the DC, AC and MV cables and the arrester protection circles, forces the arrester rectangles and their labels visible, draws the page, then puts your on-screen state back as it was. Three consequences:

• Cables are never on the drawing page. A cable drawing comes from the CAD drawing export or the cable schedule, not from the report.
• Arresters always appear, on any run that placed them — including a run where you had the Lightning arresters layer off and saw none on screen. The rectangles are their footprints, and a footprint is buildable information.
• The coverage circles never appear. The protection-radius circles are an on-screen review aid only. If a lightning-protection review needs them, it has to be done on screen. See Lightning arresters.

The design summary

Three blocks on one sheet: the layout summary, the design parameters that produced it, and the inverter and cable summary with its per-ICR breakdown — cable lengths attributed to each inverter control room rather than only totalled for the plant. That is the figure a trenching estimate is built from, because it tells you where the length is, not only how much of it there is. See Cable routing.

The single-line diagram

Your diagram, on its sheet, exactly as you built it in the SLD view. On a large plant the diagram is emitted on a physically larger sheet — A3 to A1 to A0 — while the drawing itself keeps A3 proportions, so a dense diagram stays legible when printed rather than being crushed onto one A3 sheet. See Exporting the diagram.

The bill of materials

The materials list, paginated across as many pages as it needs; nothing is truncated to fit. What is written is the list as it currently stands in the BOM view, edits included — and, if you have replaced it with a template, the template's rows. See Bill of materials.

The energy sections

Energy Yield & Loss Analysis and Energy Yield — Drawings are present only when an energy calculation has been run. No calculation, no energy sections — that is the only condition, and nothing else gates them. The drawings section carries two figures when monthly data exists and one otherwise. See How yield is calculated.

Export PDF (with Piles)

The report also exists as a PDF, in one case: while the pile overlay is on, Export ▾ gains Export PDF (with Piles). It is the PDF report with the pile pattern drawn on the layout — the pattern you defined on one reference table, stamped onto every table in the plant — and page one is rendered at 300 dpi so that a setting-out crew can resolve individual piles within a table. Expect a large file. Define the pattern first; see Piles.

Every page is A3 landscape, in this order:

A missing diagram page is not a failed export: the rest of the report is still written. If the diagram matters, open the file and confirm the page is there.

The file's own properties name it: the title is "SolarLayout.Desktop Report" and the subject "Automated PV layout summary", so it is identifiable in a document management system without opening it.

Before you export

Each of the steps below adds content to the report. Doing them in this order means one export rather than four.

What the report does not do

• It does not stamp or certify anything. The title block and the plant-details table identify the drawing; they are not an approval record.
• It does not version itself. Two exports of the same session produce the same document, and nothing tracks revisions for you. Manage that in the file name and in the document after export.
• It is not the CAD deliverable. The drawing page is a picture of the layout, not a layered drawing an engineering team can work in. For that, use the CAD drawing export.

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