Upon completion of the schematic design or the design development wizard, users will be directed to the detailed interface. The eQUEST detailed interface is very powerful, but as a result, it can be a little confusing. Let’s start by keeping it simple. The detailed interface is broken down into modules. The default module that’s selected is the building shell. Starting with the tab, 2D geometry, we can see an overhead view o the building, if we go to 3D geometry we can move the building around by holding the CTRL key and clicking the mouse. So we can adjust the view. You can right click on any portion of the building and select properties to view the individual properties about that particular component. In this case we’re looking at the west window. Here we can try to make changes, but these changes cannot be implemented until we change the mode to the detailed edit mode, which we’ll do so now.

We switch to detail edit mode and now the component tree tab will be displayed. Note: Any changes made here will not be applied if we go back into any of the wizards. So We can move the building around, right click on any surface and access the respective surface properties and change them here. There’s also the spreadsheet and summary tab. Another module that we can look at is the internal loads module. Here we can right click particular parts of the building and bring up the properties as well. There’s also a water side HVAC module, which is useful for viewing things like chiller plants, domestic hot water plants and boiler plants, as seen in the video. An interesting feature, is that these diagrams are interactive, meaning if we click on the component, it will bring up the properties of the respective plant. Along those lines, the air side HVAC module works the same way, but it one ups the water side HVAC, in that we can double click on the component and it will bring us to the individual tab respective to that component. Here we can make our changes, and we can apply advanced features. In this screen we can make more advanced changes to a system, such as editing the outside air.