[BLDG-SIM] eQUEST- adding a roof

[Karen Walkerman]

Hi Kathryn,

There are two ways to do this.  First, you can split the first floor into
two shells in the wizard, one which has an exterior roof, and the other
which is under the second floor.  You can then adjust the ceiling and roof
properties accordingly and have the computer figure everything out (this
also works well for walk-out basements where most of the basement is
underground, but a few rooms have external walls.

The other option is to modify properties in the detailed edit mode.  You can
copy existing roofs, making sure that you put them in the correct rooms and
assign them the right geometries, this way you are sure that they have the
right properties.  Sometimes the angle of the wall will affect the way it
looks on the screen.  Also, sometimes when you create a new surface before
deleting the old surface (the old interior ceiling), all you can see is the
interior ceiling.

Hope this helps.

~Karen~


On 8/6/07, kathryn l <kathrynpants at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> I am modeling a building with a different footprint for the 1st and 2nd
> stories, so I imported the CAD drawings in as 2 different shells and managed
> to make it all of the way into detailed mode before noticing the first
> floor is entirely covered by an exterior roof.  So, I deleted the 1st flr
> exterior roof, but I still need this roof in certain areas b/c the first
> floor protrudes beyond the 2nd flr in a few spots and the 1st floor
> roof serves as a porch floor for the second story.  I added an 'external
> wall' child component for those spaces and copied the existing roof's
> characteristics.  Unfortunately, it is showing up as pure white as
> if nothing is there and I can't figure out why or if eQUEST is recognizing
> it as a roof or if it is recognizing this area as a hole.  Any experience
> with this?
>
> I changed the properties tab to exactly match the 2nd story roof
> including answering 'yes' for shading surface.
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks!
> Kathryn
>



-- 
Karen Walkerman
802-238-0980
kwalkerman at gmail.com


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