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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Gord has a good point,
you want to establish all your vertices's on your ground floor and
carry them through your model and floors. That way you can snap to
them and it minimizes errors. It can help to print out your cad plan
and keep track of the points, even the snap can mess up, but you can
double click the point and adjust it if you have to then continue on.
Turn off snap to grid. You can erase points and try again. eQuest is
VERY particular on this.<br>
As a suggestion I don't think you want to go through the hassle and
time of inputing your windows at this stage. You can spend hours at it
and if (when) you have to go back you will lose all that work. Just
put them in crude as % of the wall area. Later, you can make a window
or a few and paste them all over your model in detailed edit.
Remember, this is a thermo model, not a pretty picture. All that
matters are areas, layers, exposure. The only other thing </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">that really </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">matters is, will it run and not
crash. You, at this point have quite a few untidy deals which eQuest
doesn't like. Lots of "save as" with new file names so you go back a
little not to the beginning.<br>
One thing I have found in the last few days, I've got 40 hours into
a complicated box right now, not even pressed the simulate button yet,
is to save your model, close eQuest, and open your model again. This
will generate a new BDL error report. Set it to run through
everything, no checks in the boxes. Good luck!<br>
Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.<br>
Abode Engineering<br>
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On 02/06/2010 05:18 PM, Gordon D. Schweitzer wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="395481121-02062010"><font
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color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Cool footprint. I've had this
problem before. To remedy this issue, I make a vertex wherever I am
planning to have a zone boundary in the building footprint option. For
example, if you drew a straight line from one edge of a wall to
another, instead of stopping where the building zone intersects the
exterior, eQuest might not recognize that this zone has an exterior
wall. </font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="395481121-02062010"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Therefore, as you trace the
building footprint, make a vertex whenever an exterior zone boundary
intersects a building wall. Then, as you lay out zones, trace the
exterior zones and use the "Polygon" as your first Snap priority. </font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="395481121-02062010"><font
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Kristy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 02, 2010 5:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eQuest user forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Interior/Exterior Walls in the DD
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footprint and zones. When I go to enter in the glass information,
eQuest is telling me that I don't have all of my zones defined and do I
really want to define the glass. When I say yes, it take me into the
Custom Window Placement View, but a couple of the walls are not shown
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