[Equest-users] Floor Multiplier in Detailed Edit Mode

Thu Mar 9 16:49:20 PST 2017

A long time ago (like 1993-2005), I was marketing a program DrawBDL to display DOE-2 
building models.  Following is how DrawBDL would display a similar 5-zone/floor building 
model:

At that time, I was toying around with the idea of using the FLOOR-MULTIPLIER number to 
create the missing floors, but that would require the user to specify an appropriate Z of 
the representative floor, whether it's at the lowest, the middle, or maybe even the top of 
the floors.

The building model would then be displayed as this (done using cut-and-paste of the 
DrawBDL drawing, which uses Microsoft primitive drawing tools):

I also thought of adding an option for the user to display the duplicated floors with a 
lighter shade to indicate their prevenance. But alas, these were all just ideas, and since 
DrawBDL sales tanked after 2004, and my graphics programmer got a real job, I never did 
anything to DrawBDL except to add an EnergyPlus import, which was actually quite easy to 
do because the EnergyPlus idf is completely explicit, with no shortcuts like LIKE, SET 
DEFAULT, etc. In fact, doing DrawBDL for DOE-2.1E was probably the harder thing to do than 
for eQUEST or EnergyPlus :-) By the way, I'm still passively marketing DrawBDL, but have 
to caution that it works only with DOE-2.1E and EnergyPlus-3.0, see Web site at 
www.drawbdl.com . Joe

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On 3/7/2017 2:35 PM, Keith Swartz via Equest-users wrote:
>
> Another trick to get intermediate floors to show up in the graphic is to make one of the 
> zones an “atrium.” Be careful with the zone selection for this if you need the floor 
> area, but an elevator or chase could be a good choice. Doing this truly creates separate 
> floors in the model, which might be a problem with run time and file size, but maybe not.
>
> If there is no useful zone for this, then I suggest doing a “save as…” and using this 
> “atrium” file just for the pretty picture.
>
> In the DD wizard, Screen 2 for the shell, click on the “Zone Names and Characteristics” 
> button.
>
> Click on the desired zone, then check the box in the upper right for “Multi-Level Space 
> (atrium).
>
> The intermediate floors show on the 3-D image!
>
> Keith Swartz, PE | Senior Energy Engineer
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> *From:*Nicholas Caton via Equest-users [mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 07, 2017 11:09 AM
> *To:* John Aulbach <jra_sac at yahoo.com>; Sunayana Jain 
> <sunayana at sustainablesolutionscorporation.com>
> *Cc:* equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Floor Multiplier in Detailed Edit Mode
>
> This is the easiest solution if the end-goal is “I need a pretty picture” and you 
> haven’t made substantial/visible geometry edits post-wizards.
>
> Otherwise, I’ve used photoshop/paint to manipulate the image where it really matters to 
> someone.
>
> ~Nick
>
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> *From:*Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *John Aulbach via Equest-users
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 07, 2017 10:41 AM
> *To:* Sunayana Jain <sunayana at sustainablesolutionscorporation.com 
> <mailto:sunayana at sustainablesolutionscorporation.com>>; 
> equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org <mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Floor Multiplier in Detailed Edit Mode
>
> Hi:
>
> I believe if you make another copy and call it "Full Building" or something, then 
> uncheck the Floor multipliers checkbox Screen 1), all floors will appear.
>
> John Aulbach
>
> On Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 6:54:31 AM PST, Sunayana Jain via Equest-users 
> <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org <mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a multi-story identical floor plans building. I am using floor 
> multiplier in wizard mode for simplicity of the model and to keep shorter simulation 
> time. In the model, equest is showing the bottom floor and top floor for the identical 
> floors. However, I was wondering if I can have all the floors *_visible_* at the later 
> stage of the project in detailed edit mode?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sunayana
>
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