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color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Cramer:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I have never used TRNSYS, but I always had the impression
it was more process versus whole building oriented.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>You will want to build your differently shaped floors in
the Design Development (DD) Wizard. The Schematic Wizard only allow on shape. In
the DD Wizard, you can trace AutoCAD DWG files to develop each floor. My
drift on the "shell" concept is that it is indeed a floor, where there are
several zones on the same level. The shell can also be the floor of another
building, thus the ability not only to to different floor plans in the same
building, but different buildings in the same run.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Hope this gets you started.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT color=#0000ff>John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Cramer
Silkworth<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:32 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bldg-sim] new to eQuest, need
help with varying floor shapes<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=984012922-07012009>Hi
All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=984012922-07012009>I'm new to eQuest,
testing it out to see if we like it for some modeling tasks over our current
software (Trnsys). I'm trying to model a building in which every floor has a
different shape. Can someone tell me the best way to approach this? Should each
floor be a new shell? For that matter, what is a 'shell', anyways?
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class=984012922-07012009>Thanks,<BR>Cramer</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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