[Equest-users] renaming space area types

[Dakota Kelley]

How about downloading a free text editor with a “replace all” function?  Choose the unknown/all other types in the wizard as you do now, override the default ventilation, etc., to what you want, and then once in detailed edit, open the .INP file, search for C-ACTIVITY-DESC = “Unknown”, and replace with C-ACTIVITY-DESC = “Stairs”.  Custom types in the wizard would be nice, but modifying with a DLL decompiler is out of my league.

 

 

  
                                

DAKOTA KELLEY 

Project Designer | Energy Analyst

                          

                              Office: 214.744.6199                 

                              Cell: 214.280.3825

                              Fax: 214.744.0770    

 

http://www.teliospc.com <http://www.teliospc.com/>          3535 Travis St. Suite 115

dakotak at teliospc.com            Dallas, TX 75204                                                     

                                

| MEP ENGINEERING · ENERGY MODELING · LEED CONSULTATION · COMMISSIONING |

 

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, 

And may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you

are not the intended recipient, please email the sender immediately, and delete this email from all computers.  Any 

distribution or other use is strictly prohibited.  Copyright © 2009 Telios Corporation.

 

 

 

  

 

From: James Hansen [mailto:JHANSEN at ghtltd.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:47 AM
To: Pasha Korber-Gonzalez
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] renaming space area types

 

Understood – I do most of my system edits in detailed mode.  But if it was as simple as making a ONE TIME edit to a DLL to include more activity areas, AND this could be distributed to other people, I would be willing to spend some time to edit the DLL.  Of course, decompiling a DLL doesn’t always work…it would be interesting to see if the list of activity areas is a simple text/list portion of a specific DLL.

 

GHT Limited
James Hansen, PE, LEED AP

Senior Associate

1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 200

Arlington, VA  22201-4749

703-338-5754 (Cell)

703-243-1200 (Office)

703-276-1376 (Fax)

www.ghtltd.com <http://www.ghtltd.com/> 

 

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Pasha Korber-Gonzalez
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:48 AM
To: M. Shields
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
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

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James Hansen
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:51 AM 


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!

 

GHT Limited
James Hansen, PE, LEED AP

Senior Associate

1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 200

Arlington, VA  22201-4749

703-338-5754 (Cell)

703-243-1200 (Office)

703-276-1376 (Fax)

www.ghtltd.com <http://www.ghtltd.com/> 

 

 

________________________________

The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be privileged, and is intended only for the use of the addressee.  It is the property of GHT Limited.  Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to ght at ghtltd.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments.  Thank you.


_______________________________________________
Equest-users mailing list
http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org
To unsubscribe from this mailing list send  a blank message to EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE at ONEBUILDING.ORG

 

________________________________

The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be privileged, and is intended only for the use of the addressee.  It is the property of GHT Limited.  Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to ght at ghtltd.com <mailto:ght at ghtltd.com> , and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments.  Thank you.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/equest-users-onebuilding.org/attachments/20100722/f8038a17/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 3170 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/equest-users-onebuilding.org/attachments/20100722/f8038a17/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2143 bytes
Desc: image003.jpg
URL: <http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/equest-users-onebuilding.org/attachments/20100722/f8038a17/attachment.jpeg>