[Equest-users] renaming space area types

[Pasha Korber-Gonzalez]

I know John, I get things all jumbled in my head when I try to manipulate
geometries in the ddedit mode. I need to have the pretty picture in front of
me.  :)

Wow--I thought I was "experienced" with going back to DOE-2.1e before there
was VisualDOE...  hee, hee

pkg

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, John Aulbach <jra_sac at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  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
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> 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!
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