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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Paul, thank you very much for the follow up. Forgive me all, I forgot to mention the software I am using, eQuest. It appears I may
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">In eQuest I created a bunch of different ‘shells’ for the areas above and below the sloping grade. Then using the manual coordinate
placement of shells was able to stack them following along the grade. Somewhat exhaustive but it seems to be working.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 05, 2008 11:30 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Talbert, Joshua<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Bldg-sim] Floors Built into Grade</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Kind of depends on what modelling tool you choose. DesignBuilder make this easy as you just draw the ground next to the building using
the ground obstructions component type (from memory) and it then assigns the correct adjacency conditions to your model. To do different wall panels you just use sub-panels.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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that might make it quite easy to do too. Same sort of thing in TAS.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
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</span></b>Talbert, Joshua<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 05 September 2008 16:19<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Bldg-sim] Floors Built into Grade</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I was wondering how do I model a building that is built into a hill side where portions of floors are exposed and portions are below grade. Any help would be
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