error trying to create a new window in Dedit mode

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I have graduated to the Detailed edit mode for my model.? I am trying to create
a new child component (window) for a wall.? I get an error that will not let me
continue.? I have been trying to modify an existing window, but cannot get the
screen to let me do what I need, which is to input the SC and U value of a
window, at this pint I am making a 90.1 complant window.? This should not be
this hard.

Any suggestions on how to get around this?

Paul Brooks's picture
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Hi Paul,

Creating a window & specifying/inputing glass performance are two separate
parameters. I find the easiest way for me to manage input details when I
create new windows is to copy a window on the same wall and then with this
'copied' window I modify the dimensions and x-y coords to where I want the
new window. This works better for me than saying "create new window".

Then you assign a glass to this window which is where the SC & U values are
specified for the glass properties. Scroll further down on your component
tree (after constructions) and you will find "glass types" which is where
you can create a new glass type that will be specified with your new window.

hope this helps.
Pasha

Pasha Korber-Gonzalez's picture
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SC and U value are glass properties, not window properties. Make the adjustment to your glass type. For a 90.1-compliant window, set your frame width to 0 so that the glass properties become the entire assembly properties. We can?t comment on the other error unless we know what it is?

DAKOTA KELLEY

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Thank you.

I stumbled across the glass types not too long after I sent out the email.

Thanks again for all of your friendly input and suggestions for me and everyone
else here

Paul Brooks's picture
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How does one put a space heating loop and a domestic HW loop on the SAME boiler?

John Aulbach's picture
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Couldn't you model it as a process/DHW load on the space heating loop?

Vikram Sami, LEED AP

Sami, Vikram's picture
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Definitely not a dumb question -- I do not know how to do this having
puzzled over it a few times.

If you do put it on the HW loop as a process load then it is reported as
misc rather than as DHW (minor issue) and you also cannot (that I can
find) set or schedule the incoming water temperature as you can with a
DHW loop.

I have tried putting DHW loops as secondary loops to HW but that crashes
too -- you can't have different loop types as primary-secondary.

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