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

[Nicholas Caton]

The “plan north” trick looks to get the job done after a quick check in
this case.  I can think of a few more tips to add to the pot so long as
we’re contributing:

1.       You can right click the bold perimeter lines in plan view of
wizard screen 2 for each shell, manually telling eQuest to make individual
walls adiabatic (an interior type you can later assign thermal ties with if
desired)

2.       When you have two shells meet with walls of varying perimeter
length, I have found it a good practice to generate “extra” vertices in the
shell with the longer wall, so that the shell with the shorter wall can
lock its vertices directly to the first.



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*From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On
Behalf Of *David Griffin II
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:39 PM
*To:* bfountain at greensim.com; 'Daniel Caporizzo';
equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
*Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Interior Walls show up as Exterior Walls



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
<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.





Brian



*From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
<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
*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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