[Equest-users] Modeling Inclined walls in eQuest

[Bishop, Bill]

Anoop,

 

You can adjust the angle of exterior wall and roof surfaces by changing
the Tilt in DD Edit mode. Don't worry about the fact that it looks like
there are truck-sized holes in the building.

 

Regards,

Bill

 

 

 

 

 

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 11:49 AM
To: Nick Caton
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Modeling Inclined walls in eQuest

 

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:

Not easily.  

 

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. 

 

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.

 

...But that's only my opinion ;).  

 

~Nick

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NICK CATON, P.E.

SENIOR ENGINEER

 

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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

 

Hi,

 

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.?


-- 

Anoop Vijay CEM, LEED AP

 

Dubai, UAE





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