A design element in the DESIGN DB refers to a main Catalogue Component (indirectly) via its Specification Reference (SPREF) attribute. The design element may also refer to a second Catalogue Component which defines the insulation of the first Component, via its Insulation Specification (ISPEC) attribute. The second Component is the Insulation Component of the design element.

When you define a Catalogue Component using insulation parameters, its dimensions are not completely specified in the Catalogue. So that PARAGON can give some idea of what the Component will look like when used in a design, you can define specimen values for the insulation parameters. These specimen values apply to all Components, unlike the component parameters which are attributes of a particular Component. The values are set using the MODEL SETTINGS command. For example,

defines a specimen value for insulation parameter number 3. See Setting Obstruction and Insulation Representation for the full syntax of how to set values for insulation parameters. The values are not stored in the Catalogue DB; they are set up only for the current PARAGON session.