Import CAD in detailed data edit

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Kevin-

I would highly recommend doing all geometry in the wizard. If not you
will need to create each space/zone by hand which will be incredibly
tedious and unnecessary. If you are worried about the clutter of
schedules, materials, etc... i would recommend deleting them in the
input text file.

Good luck.

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Steve Mignogna

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I generally only extract the polygons to a new word doc by means of cut and
paste. Which means I still create all spaces/zones. I suppose I should get
into custom libraries to speed up the process further. Do you feel the most
efficient way is to just deal with the glob? Or go cutty-pasty on it?

Kevin Kyte, LEED AP

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You could look at how the wizard generates a cad reference, and then insert
the text into your own pd2 file (I think that's where it goes). Brandon
Nichols created a document explaining how to clean up the "CAD file not
found" error, this would be a good place to start...

This way you're not loading a file with tons of errors post-cutting of all
the junk.

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Karen

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Kevin-

I guess its a matter of preference. Personally, I like having eQuest
create all the zones and spaces for me. Then I go back after and
delete all mention of the cad file in the .pd2 file. I also clean out
the .inp as well. It only takes an hour or so. I would imagine for a
complex building creating the zones and spaces manually would take
much more than that.

Steve

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