[Equest-users] roof wont generate

[Pasha Korber-Gonzalez]

Joe,

when I opened your file and entered into (and then out of) the Wizard I was
able to view the 2-D & 3-D images, but as I moved through the key-strokes in
the wizard to eliminate the errors you are getting, all efforts were ignored
by eQuest.  It appears that some of the buttons are greyed-out which I don't
understand which selected options are turning off these other buttons.

Although the 3-d image of the pitched roof looks like things are aligned I
can't figure out why you are getting these errors, it seems to be something
that eQuest dislikes about the shape you are trying to use.  I can only
agree with Carol at this point that you will have to make the fine-tuning
adjustments in ddeit or in your .inp file.

Keep us posted if you do find something that works for your model.

Pasha

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Carol Gardner <cmg750 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> When I opened your file I can't see anything, not your 2-D or 3-D view. I
> do not generally trust eQUEST to snap correctly to anything, CAD file points
> or even points that I manually enter on the eQ screen, and almost always
> retype the coordinates as soon as I'm done pointing and clicking. I do this
> because I've frequently found round off errors are present and they can
> create problems as you are acutely aware of right now.
>
> At this point, since you can't seem to fix it in the wizard, you will have
> to do it in DD edit, or better yet, in your .inp file if you know how to do
> that. It sounds like you know what the points should be so just scroll down
> to your polygons and fix them there.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Carol
>
>   On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:28 AM, <jredburn at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am having problems with EQuest not being able to generate roof planes. I
>> have a very complicated building and I get error reports that the roof is
>> not completely generated and I have huge holes in the roof that throw the
>> heat loads off and look bad in a 3D view.  After a lot of searching and
>> reworking I found that the program is not snapping to the Acad verticies.
>>  It get close but when you zoom in very close, the points are separated just
>> enough to cause an error.
>> I drew an octagon in Acad and imported into a new project.  I turned off
>> the snap on the polygon and the grid leaving just the CAD snap on.  I very
>> carefully drew the outline and checked the coordinates to make sure they all
>> paired up.  Every thing was nice and regular and should have generated the
>> roof surfaces but it did not.
>> If anyone can tell me why the programs does not work I would greatly
>> appreciate it.
>> Oh, one more thing, I tried to move the Equest points over the Acad point
>> and they would not move.  They snapped back to the original location as soon
>> as I released the mouse.  I also tried to change the coordinate numerals on
>> the left side of the screen but that did not work either. I could highlight
>> a number and change it but as soon as I moved the mouse, the numbers
>> reverted to the original.  Even with all the snaps turned off.
>> Regards
>> Joe
>> LEED AP BD&C
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