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WallMan
The WallMan component offers a convenient facility to generate and edit vector building databases.
Using WallMan
Indoor LEGO Tool
Overview
Templates

Welcome
Release Notes
See what's new in the latest release.
Get Started
The WinProp Getting Started Guide contains step-by-step instructions on how to get started with WinProp.
Examples
The Altair installation directory contains a collection of examples that shows you WinProp concepts and essentials.
Introduction to WinProp
WinProp is a complete suite of tools in the domain of wireless propagation and radio network planning. With applications ranging from satellite to terrestrial, from rural via urban to indoor radio links, WinProp’s innovative wave propagation models combine accuracy with short computation time.
Typical Workflow in WinProp
View the typical workflows when working with propagation simulations in specific scenarios, how to add a network planning to a propagation simulation, include a receiver pattern, set up a time-variant scenario, include multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) at both the base station and the mobile station, connectivity analysis of sensor networks and optimization.
WallMan
The WallMan component offers a convenient facility to generate and edit vector building databases.
- Introduction to WallMan
- Introduction to the Interface
- Using WallMan
- Materials
- Default Shortcut Keys
  View the default shortcut keys available for WallMan for faster and easier operation.
TuMan
The TuMan tool enables you to generate and modify tunnel scenarios.
AMan
Use AMan to generate, edit and analyze a single antenna. Superimpose multiple antennas radiating similar signals to determine the actual antenna pattern while taking into consideration the local environment.
ProMan
The ProMan component includes wave propagation models for different scenarios and network planning simulators for various air interfaces.
Methods
WinProp includes empirical and semi-empirical models (calibration with measurements possible), rigorous 3D ray-tracing models as well as the unique dominant path model (DPM).
Main Applications
In WinProp various air interfaces and applications are pre-defined: broadcasting, cellular, wireless access, WiFi, sensor networks, ICNIRP and EM compliance.
WinProp Utilities
The WinProp utilities consist of the Launcher utility and the Updater.
Appendix
Reference information is provided in the appendix.

Templates

In WallMan, indoor walls are modeled as bordered, polygonal shaped areas which are characterised by some electromagnetic parameters which are relevant for field strength calculations. The program offers basic tools for wall creation in indoor scenarios, but without the new features, each building wall had to be entered individually. The template functionality offers a solution for this problem.

Templates consist of a certain number of walls arbitrarily placed in the database area which are combined by the template definition. A template is internally represented as a simple list of walls. In 3D space, each wall list is bordered by a cuboid. The minimum point P_min is used as the origin for the template inherent coordinate system and will be called template origin in the following. If the mentioned cuboid is mapped on a 2D surface, it disintegrates into a rectangular shape which can be called the object’s Bounding Box.

Figure 1. Object surrounding cuboid in 3D space.

The Indoor Lego Feature extends the WallMan indoor wall creation tools by a set of predefined templates covering structures which are frequently found in indoor databases. Lego should be understood as follows: Indoor Lego templates can be used to create whole buildings based on individual components in almost the same manner as the known LEGO toy building blocks.