EQuest: Floor addition

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Hi,

I want to add another floor to my building, but I am already within the
detail interface. Is there a way that I could go back into the wizard and
create another floor without creating problems?

Thanks for any advise that can be provided!

Regards,
Alexandra Waranowski

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You could do that within the detail interface.

Under "Building Shell", open up "Component Tree"

1) general default case, right click on "Mid Flrs", and select
"Properties...."; all floors other than the top or ground floor are
simply multiplier of the mid floor, you just add floor by changing the
"Multiplier" in the properties screen.

2) if you would like to define floor by floor, right click on the
"Project:...", and select "Create Floor ...." from the menu.

Bruno Lee

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Alexandra

If its an identical floor, just use the 'floor multiplier' option on the
floor properties dialog of the floor you'd like to duplicate. Then add
the floor height of the duplicated floor to the absolute Z elevations of
all floors above. Note that the Z elevation is also found on the floor
properties dialog, of the respective floors that need to be jacked up.

There's only one minor issue... the duplicated floor won't be depicted
graphically. In 3-D geometry view, the building will look like there's
a missing floor. But in all of the energy reports etc. you should find
that the duplicated floor is accounted for.

Now if the floor to be added is NOT identical... that's another can of
worms. Let me know if this is the case and I can give you some
guidance... but it's not somewhere you want to go if you don't have to.

Brando

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Alexandra

Here's a link to a post I did describing how to create a multi-floor
atrium... hopefully that's not what you need to do, since the only
simple way I know of to handle that is via the wizard.

http://elcca-exchange.blogspot.com/search?q=atrium

Just as an FYI, we always always preserve a snapshot of our project at
the transition from wizard to detailed edit mode, in the event there
something we overlooked that's just more expedient to accomplish in the
wizard.

Is this an open mezzanine, where you could simply extend the floor to
floor height, and double-count key load factors, like lighting, people
and plug-load density? That I think would be the simplest approach...
otherwise your going to need to add a floor, as Bruno suggested, in the
detailed editor.

Better to copy an existing floor and delete unnecessary items then
create from scratch and add missing components manually, I think.

Hope that helps

Brando

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