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class=559510216-30082006>All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Console" size=2><SPAN class=559510216-30082006>Recently
I have been successful on a number of projects exporting gbXML building geometry
from CAD (Autodesk Building Systems 2007) and importing into version 6
of Trace 700 and version 4.3 of Carrier HAP. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Console" size=2><SPAN class=559510216-30082006>Have also
tried sending the gbXML to Green Building Studio and downloading the DOE-2 file
they create in an effort to import this data expeditiously into
eQuest. Unfortunately the DOE-2 file created by Green Building studio
is problematic for use in eQuest -- Jeff Hirsch has looked at one made
the following evaluation:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Console" size=2><SPAN class=559510216-30082006><FONT
size=1>It appears that the ACad -> gbXML software creates a building model
that is not easily used in eQUEST and cannot ever be used in the eQUEST wizard,
only in the detail mode. Since it uses an "Energy Plus" style of input model
description (i.e; surface geometry but no floor plan or space layout) it is not
really compatible with eQUEST for detail envelope or space/zone modification
without some difficulty ... since you cannot use eQUEST 2-d view (the primary
way of identifying and modifying space/zone data.)</DIV>
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<P>Also, the building geometry is not correct and is difficult to really confirm
in eQUEST ... all the interior and exterior walls extend outside the roof or the
roofs are misplaced at Z low by a couple feet.</P>
<P>Since the creation process does not create any space (room geometry) but only
physically places walls at the site relative the location of the building on the
earth (i.e, it does not geometrically describe the spaces so that they can be
viewed in 2- and 3- dimensions, checking the placement of walls is not possible
(but there are visual problems such as the wall height I mentioned
earlier.)</P></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Console">Does anyone know of an
expeditious way to transfer gbXML geometry data into eQuest accurately -- being
able use the wizards I could live without, so long as space / zone modification
possible <SPAN class=559510216-30082006>in detail edit mode. Or
alternatively, does anyone know if gbXML import is "in the works" for
a future version of eQuest?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Lucida Console" size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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