Recent projects & layouts

A layout is one result you generated for a project — one click of Generate produces one layout. A single project usually accumulates many layouts as you sweep parameters or compare scenarios. SolarLayout keeps every one of them so you can come back to any version later.

Your Projects list

The Projects list is your library of every project on this account. Open it from Home → Projects in the left sidebar.

Each row shows:

• A small thumbnail of the project boundary (or the most recent layout's preview if you've generated one).
• The project name.
• Runs — how many layouts you've generated for that project.
• Last run — when the most recent layout was generated.
• Updated — when the project was last touched.

The list sorts by Last run (most recent first) by default. Click any column header to sort by that column. Use the search field above the table to filter by project name — useful once you've accumulated dozens of projects from a busy quarter.

Click anywhere on a row to open the project. Click the ⋯ icon at the end of a row for Open, Settings, Rename, and Delete.

Browsing layouts inside a project

Open a project and look at the Runs tab in the bar along the bottom of the canvas — each "run" is one layout you generated. Every layout you've generated for this project is listed there, newest first.

Each row shows:

• The layout's name (you can rename it).
• When it was generated (relative time).
• How long the calculation took.
• A status badge — done, running, queued, failed, or cancelled.
• A trash icon to delete the layout.

Click any row to load that layout onto the canvas. This is how you compare scenarios: generate once at GCR 0.38, generate again at GCR 0.42, then click between the two rows to see how capacity, yield, and packing change.

Where everything lives

Both projects and the layouts inside them live in your SolarLayout account, not on your computer. That has two practical consequences:

• The same projects and layouts appear when you sign in on a different machine with the same account.
• You can't browse a project's files on disk — there's no folder to open in Finder or Explorer.

If you need a layout's result outside of SolarLayout — for a report, a presentation, or further modelling — use one of the Exports (PDF, KMZ, DXF, or 15-minute CSV) from the open project.