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FredIQ Help
Short step-by-step guides. From registration and drawing the roof to the site drawing.
Getting started
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Getting started with FredIQ
Registration, account activation, the trial and your first project.
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Trial
What the trial includes, how long it lasts and what happens afterwards.
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Your company and its people
How to invite a colleague, what a company member sees and how projects are shared within the company.
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Two-factor authentication
Signing in with a code from an app on your phone, and recovery codes.
Projects and roofs
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New project and roof type
Flat roof, pitched roof or facade. What to choose and what cannot be changed later.
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Several roofs in one project
When to add another roof and how to switch between roofs.
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Background and scale
Uploading a PDF or an image of the drawing and setting the scale from a known length.
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Importing a DXF drawing
Roof outline and drains straight from a CAD drawing.
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Project from Roof Calculator
Creating a project from a Roof Calculator file and taking over the anchoring zones.
Drawing
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Drawing a roof
Controls shared by all editors. Outline, openings, drains and saving, shown on a flat roof.
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Drawing aids
Magnet, parallel, right angles, grid and entering a length as a number.
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Perimeter edge types
Parapet, wall and free edge. Why to set them and what the application calculates from them.
Flat roof
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Slopes and tapered wedges
Calculating the tapered insulation, the wedge schedule and the substrate board plan.
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Drainage
Drains, gutters and the drainage assessment of the roof.
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Anchor plan
Anchoring the waterproofing in zones and the clamping lengths of the anchors for ordering.
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Fall protection
Risk zones, anchor points and lines, the design and its check.
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Green roof
Layers, gravel border and fire safety rules.
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Hall and diverters
Sloped deck, valleys, drains on the valleys and diverters.
Pitched roof
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Roof shape and planes
Quick setup, mono-pitch, gable and hip roofs, a more complex roof plane by plane.
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Roof covering
Choosing a covering from the catalogue, the pitch assessment and the piece layout on the planes.
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Battens
Batten spacing based on the covering and the rafter length.
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Covering and sheet-metal schedule
The bill of materials for ordering and how to download it.
Facade
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Facade panel layout
Facade views and planes, panel format and joints.
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Cutting plan
Pieces to order and how the panels are cut.
Outputs
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Protocols
Which protocols FredIQ creates and what you will find in them.
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Released revisions
Releasing a document with a revision number, downloading it and withdrawing a revision.
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Documents for suppliers
The document for the insulation supplier and other documents for ordering.
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Site drawing
Large-format print from a released revision and a link with a QR code for phones on site.
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DXF export
A drawing from FredIQ for your CAD program.
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Bills of materials and CSV exports
Material schedules for ordering and how to download them.
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What FredIQ does not assess
Structural design, anchor load capacity and other limits of FredIQ outputs.
Subscription and account
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Subscription
Plans by project type, ordering and invoices. Prices are on the Subscription page.
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Billing details
Company details on invoices and who manages them in the company.
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Profile, password and language
Changing your name, e-mail, password and the application language.
Fred
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Fred, the assistant in FredIQ
What to ask Fred and how to work with his answers.
For manufacturers
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Manufacturer portal
What a manufacturer company finds in the portal and who has access to it.
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Manufacturer catalogue in FredIQ
How products get into the catalogue and who manages it.
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Manufacturer statistics
How designers use your materials, without competitor data and without prices.