[Equest-users] renaming space area types

[John Aulbach]

Pasha:

You have the understanding of the Wizards and the Deetailed Edit features and 
use just right. It is hell trying to do the geometry anywhere but in the Wizard, 
but for true life schedules and several other features (like other fuels and 
correct scheduling), you must got to the Detailed Edit mode..

You should have tried keeping track of the geometry 30 years ago in DOE-2.1 
A....



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From: Pasha Korber-Gonzalez <pasha.pkconsulting at gmail.com>
To: M. Shields <mshields at fstrategies.com>
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 7:48:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] renaming space area types


at this point in time renaming happens in DDedit mode.   Would be nice to have 
the function to name our own spaces in the wizard (someday maybe---fingers 
crossed.)  But remember, any good energy model and any good energy modeler will 
move thier model into DDedit mode to finish the detailed inputs and create any 
type of compliance model.   The wizards just make too many assumptions and lock 
out too many detailed inputs (case-in-point) to perform a quality whole building 
energy simulation (i.e. project is in 75 % DD or later in design stage.)

I am not 'bashing' the wizards in anyway, they are very useful to getting a 
model setup and make many steps of building a whole building model very 
efficient & less time-intensive than somethings compared to ddedit mode.  In the 
long run, DDedit mode is where you want to be to use the full range of 
capabilities built into eQuest.

pkg


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, M. Shields <mshields at fstrategies.com> wrote:

To my knowledge it is not possible to rename the space type within the wizard.  
It can be done in detailed edit mode if you go to the properties for the space 
under the building shell tab.
> 
>Hope that helps,
>Michael Shields
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>[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James Hansen
>Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:51 AM  
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>To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
>Subject: [Equest-users] renaming space area types
> 
>Does anyone know if it’s possible to rename space area types in the “Activity 
>Areas Allocation” page?
> 
>Whenever I’m entering stairs and elevator shafts, I end up having to assign them 
>to “unknown” and “all others” since those are the two non-descript activity 
>areas available.  It’s not a big deal to remember that “unknown” is stairs and 
>“all others” is shafts, but it would make it more readable if we could rename 
>space types.
> 
>I tried modifying the “unknown” space activity allocation in the .pd2 file, but 
>all that did was force the wizard to use the original space type listed for that 
>line (conference).
> 
>Seems like it’s probably a programming item within eQuest, but just wanted to 
>see if anyone else had luck doing this.
> 
>I’d be willing to work with a DLL decompiler if the information on the activity 
>areas is within one of them…just don’t know where to start.
> 
>Thanks!
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