[Equest-users] Modeling Inclined walls in eQuest

[Anoop Vijaykumar]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your inputs...yes, this seems a major challenge. I was thinking
of creating a dummy floor in between (with 'open to below') and give
inclined facades..but I doubt if there are any options in eQuest for
inclined or angled facades..in between I read from one of the forums that it
can be done in DD Edit...!!! still trying to find ot out, any idea if that
option is available in eQuest..?

And yes, I need to try it GBS and IES too....I would also like to see
anybody here in our community has done similar models with slanted
facades/spherical structures etc....

Many Thanks,
Anoop.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Nick Caton <ncaton at smithboucher.com> wrote:

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> Critical details aside, I expect constructing a full 3D globe in eQuest
> would be a pretty major challenge for most of us.  I’ve done some
> complicated curvilinear 3D shapes in the past (isolated helical building
> shades and similar), but those efforts required much time absorbing all the
> math involved in describing that shape in order to produce formulae in a
> spreadsheet to generate the correct polygon vertices and format them in a
> fashion such that they may be copy/pasted or imported into an .inp file. *
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> Achieving a full globe would likely require a different approach – perhaps
> a geometrical import via green building studio or referencing a 3D model
> while defining each facet polygon in detailed mode… I’d personally ask
> around to see if others have tread a similar path to see if it seems
> feasible first.****
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> *From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Anoop
> Vijaykumar
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:04 AM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] Modeling Inclined walls in eQuest****
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> Hi,****
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> I am modeling a fully glazed building with inclined walls. In fact, the
> building envelope is in the form of a globe or like a sphere. Can anybody
> suggest how this can be modelled in equest.?
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