Hello all again.
I've imported a CAD drawing, using schematic design mode I drew the
custom foot print and then the custom individual zones. I have a couple
of exterior walls that show up as interior walls, even after a lot of
tweaking. Any suggestions for converting these interior walls to
exterior walls (simply)?
Thanks again.
Jessica E. McCready
Jessica,
I believe that in the eQUEST wizard if your defined zone walls are even
the slightest bit off from what you defined as the building footprint,
they will not be recognized as exterior walls. You could go through the
wizard to correct this, create a new exterior wall in the detailed
design mode and delete the interior wall, or go to the .inp file to
change the wall type. You can't easily change a wall type from interior
to exterior within eQUEST.
Regards,
Jonathan Curtin EIT, LEED AP
It is my understanding that if the wall of your custom zone is within 1'
of the footprint, then an exterior wall is created. This can be useful if
you do not want exterior walls (where building connects to an adjacent
building for example). You simply define your zone inside the floorplate
for that wall. It can also be frustrating if your zone walls don't quite
line up with your floorplate as Jonathan suggested. We tend to go through
the exercise of rounding all polygon vertex inputs to the nearest foot for
ease of zone alignment etc. (That would be a helpful automatic option in
the eQUEST interface).
Jessica-
You can edit the .input file to change a wall from exterior to interior and
vise-versa
1) You would need to change the tag from "EXTERIOR-WALL" to "INTERIOR-WALL"
2) Change the construction.
3) Take out the shading surface tag if you have that specified for the
exterior wall.
4) You will also need to add a tag like {NEXT-TO = "Space that Its next to"}
Its tedious but if its only a few walls it shouldn't be that bad.
"Name of Wall" = INTERIOR-WALL
NEXT-TO = "Space its next to"
CONSTRUCTION = "IWall Construction"
LOCATION = SPACE-V2
..
"Name of Wall" = EXTERIOR-WALL
CONSTRUCTION = "EWall Const"
LOCATION = SPACE-V5
SHADING-SURFACE = YES
..
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Steve Mignogna