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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Make the zoning in the DD Wizard, Leave out the garden area but put in zones around the garden.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">When you get to the DETAIL EDIT mode, go into the .INP file and change the INTERIOR-WALL to EXTERIOR-WALL, the wall composition to INT-Wall, and remove the NEXT-TO command and replace with SHADING-SURFACE = YES. I have been doing this on models for the last 3 months.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It works.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">John R Aulbach, PE</div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, September 8, 2021, 09:51:23 PM PDT, Ahmad Fraij via Bldg-sim <bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv2793811699"><div><div class="yiv2793811699yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Hello Guys,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Can anybody please advise on how I can build a square building with a square hollow core in eQuest? The square hollow core is basically a garden opened to the sky without any roof. When I use custom footprint and start adding vertices, the vertices stay connected to make a polygon. I can't create a new polygon for the hollow core after I finish the building polygon.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Your help will be highly appreciated.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Regards</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Ahmad</div></div><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Bldg-sim mailing list<br><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org" target="_blank">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org</a><br>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a ymailto="mailto:BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG" href="mailto:BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><br></div>
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