[Equest-users] Interior Walls show up as Exterior Walls

[David Griffin II]

Dan,

If Brian's solution does not work, you can try an approach I've used in previous versions of eQUEST.

In the Wizard under the Custom Zoning Pattern, offset the interiors walls that are showing up as exterior by ~1'-0" from the edge of the footprint.

This should make the walls interior rather than exterior, and since DOE2 uses area of geometry to calculate things, it should not affect the accuracy of your model.

Let me know how it goes.

Sincerely,

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From: bfountain at greensim.com [mailto:bfountain at greensim.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 11:21 AM
To: 'Daniel Caporizzo'; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Interior Walls show up as Exterior Walls

I recommend leaving "Plan North" on DD wizard screen 2 as North - then setting the azimuth as required in detailed edit mode.  With Plan North as North, I find eQUEST does a good job of creating appropriate exterior and interior walls for adjacent shells.  However when the building is rotated in the wizard, what you describe (all exterior walls) has happened to me as well.

I hope this resolves your issue.

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Brian

From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Caporizzo
Sent: July-15-15 1:09 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: [Equest-users] Interior Walls show up as Exterior Walls

Hi everyone,

I am working on an energy model for an office building (see attached pd2 and inp files), in eQuest v3.65.

My problem is that when I create the shells and zones, all of the walls touching adjacent shells/zones show up as exterior walls instead of interior walls.

This is a particular problem on all of the "1F" shells in the model, which should have interior walls when the shells connect. I am using the default zones right now while the architect works on updating the room layout. I don't know if it is just a setting I have unchecked but in the past this has only been an isolated problem (i.e. couple of walls for the whole job) rather than the entire project. I am still in the Wizard Data Edit mode phase of the model, and even though I can fix this manually in Detailed Edit Mode (by creating interior walls in the same location) I'd like to fix it in the wizard...which will definitely save me time in the long run.

Has anyone had this problem before?

Thanks,
Dan


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