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<DIV>You have the understanding of the Wizards and the Deetailed Edit features and use just right. It is hell trying to do the geometry anywhere but in the Wizard, but for true life schedules and several other features (like other fuels and correct scheduling), you must got to the Detailed Edit mode..</DIV>
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<DIV>You should have tried keeping track of the geometry 30 years ago in DOE-2.1 A....</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Pasha Korber-Gonzalez <pasha.pkconsulting@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> M. Shields <mshields@fstrategies.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, July 22, 2010 7:48:12 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Equest-users] renaming space area types<BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV>at this point in time renaming happens in DDedit mode. Would be nice to have the function to name our own spaces in the wizard (someday maybe---fingers crossed.) But remember, any good energy model and any good energy modeler will move thier model into DDedit mode to finish the detailed inputs and create any type of compliance model. The wizards just make too many assumptions and lock out too many detailed inputs (case-in-point) to perform a quality whole building energy simulation (i.e. project is in 75 % DD or later in design stage.)</DIV>
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<DIV>I am not 'bashing' the wizards in anyway, they are <U>very</U> useful to getting a model setup and make many steps of building a whole building model very efficient & less time-intensive than somethings compared to ddedit mode. In the long run, DDedit mode is where you want to be to use the full range of capabilities built into eQuest.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, M. Shields <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:mshields@fstrategies.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:mshields@fstrategies.com">mshields@fstrategies.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">To my knowledge it is not possible to rename the space type within the wizard. It can be done in detailed edit mode if you go to the properties for the space under the building shell tab.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Hope that helps,</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</A> [mailto:<A href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>James Hansen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:51 AM
<DIV class=im><BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</A><BR></DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Equest-users] renaming space area types</SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Does anyone know if it’s possible to rename space area types in the “Activity Areas Allocation” page?</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Whenever I’m entering stairs and elevator shafts, I end up having to assign them to “unknown” and “all others” since those are the two non-descript activity areas available. It’s not a big deal to remember that “unknown” is stairs and “all others” is shafts, but it would make it more readable if we could rename space types.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I tried modifying the “unknown” space activity allocation in the .pd2 file, but all that did was force the wizard to use the original space type listed for that line (conference).</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Seems like it’s probably a programming item within eQuest, but just wanted to see if anyone else had luck doing this.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I’d be willing to work with a DLL decompiler if the information on the activity areas is within one of them…just don’t know where to start.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks!</P>
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