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Today, I'll show you how to manage your general settings for the earthing system.

Let's first check some standard settings.

You can open the lightning protection settings either with the red lightning icon here, or

you can move to file, settings and lightning protection.

Under the accessories tab, you have the option to preset the material you want to use below

the disconnection point, or in other words for your earthing system.

You can select your preferred material for the foundation and change the type of material

that is used as standard for foundation and ground.

Of course, you can always change the selected preference in your project.

Remember to set your changes as default if you want them as your standard selection.

To manage the earthing settings in a project, we first need to draw a floor slab.

You select the floor slab, click right and choose assign earthing system.

If we repeat this step, we now have access to the earthing settings.

Here we have an overview of our general settings, such as the lightning protection level, for

example.

Now I can choose between planning the earthing system according to DIN 18014 or according

to IEC 62305 part 3.

In addition, I can check if we have a foundation earth.

Please also note the additional hints here.

The specific earth resistance in ohmmeter can be adapted in this window.

If I plan the earthing system according to IEC 62305, I can choose if I want to work

with vertical or horizontal earthing electrodes for type A.

The same goes for additional earth electrodes for type B if the considered area is too small.

Here below I can adapt the material settings for the project individually.

If I move to options, I can adapt the mesh size for the foundation grounding and for

the ring grounding in meter.

If I want the mesh to be evenly spaced across the relevant size, I can select the checkboxes

here.

Lastly, we can adapt the horizontal and vertical distances.

Once I am done, I click on apply and the program calculates the earthing system.

I'll demonstrate in additional tutorials how I can plan the earthing system according

to DIN 18014 and IEC 62305 type A and type B.