[Equest-users] Equest and high rise floors

[Mark Stout]

No, they are exterior walls.  Here's the view on the building.  The front
of the building faces south.  Maybe these images will help.

↓South View
[image: image.png]

↓ North view
[image: image.png]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:13 PM David Eldridge <DEldridge at grummanbutkus.com>
wrote:

> Are any of the walls both inside and out? Try drawing an extra zone to
> separate the sections, or if the walls should be correct as-is go into the
> text editor and make sure the vertices are exactly a match.
>
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> On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:57 PM, Mark Stout via Equest-users <
> equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Using DD Wizard I modeled each floor as a separate zone and that helped.
>  The model correctly renders the footprint of each floor of the building,
> but still treats exterior walls as interior walls and I can't change them.
> I can't do it in the wizard or in the spreadsheet.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:37 PM John Aulbach <jra_sac at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark:
>>
>> Sounds like you used the SD Wizard. Save and Copy to a DD Wizard format
>> (name it different). Then go to 3rd-6th floors and redraw the footprint to
>> match those floors. Make sure your spaces match your footprints.
>>
>> That should take care of BOTH the walls that aren't there and the
>> interior walls to exterior walls.
>>
>> John R Aulbach, PE
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 07:36:19 PM PDT, Mark Stout via
>> Equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm modeling a 6 story building from plans.  All floors are equal from
>> the rear.  The first two floors come out 165' and have the same footprint.
>> But floors 3-6 come out 115'. The 6th floor has a 25'x30' uncovered patio.
>> I used the custom zoning pattern to create the layout of the footprint for
>> each floor.  When I look at the 3D model, I see the outlines of the
>> different footprints for floors 3-6 correctly.  But what should be an
>> exterior wall is showing as an interior adiabatic wall.
>>
>>    1. How do I get the program to treat these interior walls as an
>>    exterior wall?
>>    2. How do I get rid of the walls that followed floors 1 and 2 but are
>>    non-existing for floors 3-6?
>>
>>
>>
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