[Equest-users] eQuest not properly translating AutoCAD import

[Chris Hadlock]

eQuesters,

Thank you for all the helpful feedback, reading through all the comments
helped solved my problem. Since the CAD files were provided to us, I don't
know what manipulations were done upstream. I do think however there were
some 3D to 2D conversion issues that were causing the problem.

At the end of the day, all I did was copy my zoning layers into a *new*
(2D) CAD file and it imported cleanly into eQuest, solving the problem.

Thanks for all the helpful comments.

Chris

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Nicholas Caton <ncaton at catonenergy.com>
wrote:

> I for one have never seen that behavior before.  Saving as different CAD
> formats would have been my first guess as well.
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> Have you tried opening the CAD reference file using a different CAD
> package?  Draftsight is one free option I’ve found works well.
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> Alternatively perhaps something has gone awry with your installation, and
> an uninstall/reinstall of eQUEST might set things straight.
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> A few more shots in the dark:
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> -          is it possible you need to adjust which CAD layers are
> displaying in the eQuest interface?
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> -          Is it possible your CAD reference file is not 2D and needs to
> be flattened and/or the view from AutoCAD is not situated “top down?”
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> ~Nick
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> *From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Matthew J. Baron
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:10 PM
> *To:* Chris Hadlock; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] eQuest not properly translating AutoCAD
> import
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> Hi Chris,
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> Easy work around is to create polylines for each of the zones you have in
> cad the use ”list” command to get the x,y,z coord for each polyline/space
> then manually input these in for each zone/footprint in equest. You can use
> one of the points as a baseline to subtract the difference from each of the
> subsequent points (ie. Your upper left most point of the building is say
> 85,30 in equest and 80,25 in cad. You would need to add 5,5 to all points
> in equest). Can’t answer your question as to why exactly it isn’t working
> for you…
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> Thank you,
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> Matthew J. Baron, PE
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> *From:* Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
> <equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org>] *On Behalf Of *Chris Hadlock
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 11:27 AM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] eQuest not properly translating AutoCAD import
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> Hello eQuest-ers,
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> Has anyone ever ran into an issue (using either eQuest 3.64 or 3.65) with
> importing a CAD file and eQuest having trouble translating the lines
> properly?
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> I've attached an image which shows eQuest's version of my CAD file on the
> left and my actual CAD file on the right. If you look closely, you'll see
> several deviations between eQuest line and CAD lines...eQuest seems to be
> mis-shaping my zones (for example, the top line should be a straight line
> all the way along, but eQuest has added a different angle to the line on
> the top left zone).
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> Anyone seen this and found a fix for this?
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> If it matters, my CAD file is DXF 2000 format (but I've also tried other
> formats with the same results).
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> Thanks,
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> Chris
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