Hello Everyone...I have a question

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Good Afternoon Everyone,

I have input all my information into eQuest, and upon completion I ran the
"Simulate Building Performance" in order
to obtain my reports. When I look at the 3D representation of the building,
some of my exterior walls are missing.Can
someone help me with this?

Robert C. Malone

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How much memory do you have in your computer? Sometimes, I have had the
same problem, with less than 1 GB of memory.

You may call an exterior wall an interior wall, thus it may not
recognize it.

This is part of the "fiddle" level of eQuest inputs.

John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM

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Hi Chad,

When you are in Detailed Design wizard mode, click on "Edit selected
building shell". On wizard screen 2 of 25, you see the footprint of
your building. You can right-click on the exterior walls to designate
them as exterior, full adiabatic, or partially adiabatic. This may be
your problem, or else I would make sure your footprint polygon is closed
by checking your data points, or re-snapping them.

Good luck!

Lilah Montague

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If you used the custom footprint and custom zoning then ensure your zone
boundaries are within 1 foot of your footprint boundaries. If not, they
will not be created as exterior walls. This is sometimes useful if you
do not want exterior walls created (such as where there are adjoining
buildings).

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Chad,

Are they actually missing from the the building or can you just not see
them? If the walls are still there, sometimes when you have a large
building eQuest has trouble rendering all the walls, windows, etc.. I would
recommend going into the 3-D view details and un-checking some of the
components and then reopen the project. Sometimes that helps.

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Steve Mignogna

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