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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> There are tutorials
which come with the eQuest program. Go to your Document folder on
your computer, you will see</font><font size="+1"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font>eQuest 3-6x
Data, and eQuest 3-6x Projects. Go into the eQuest 3-6x Data
folder and you will see a Tutorials folder, there are 3 in the All
folder, also in the DetailedUI folder there is information on the
Detailed Simulation Reports, it explains the SIM output.<br>
After that you just have to start a project, work through it and
learn. I'm not sure which of my replies you read but do lots of
"save as" on your model so you don't lose a lot of input information
and always have a back up file. Believe me when I say you will need
it/them many times. Stay in the wizards as much as possible.
Ignore the warnings about losing data when you go back into the
wizard after you are done. Just don't input any information in the
detailed edit and then you have nothing to lose. I sit at this
point for a long time, at the finish point of the wizards, and keep
going back into them and completing/tuning my model. Start simple,
leave windows to last, just put in one kind and do % of wall until
your model is built and running. Use the Autocad drawing file
option and be <u>very</u> careful inputting your vertices's, they
have to be <u>exact</u>. Also use exact coordinates, start your
building at 0,0. Enter your vertices's in a counter clockwise
fashion. I add in all the intersection points on the perimeter as
well when doing the shell. That way you can snap to them later when
you are doing your interior zones. I normally copy the original cad
file and then use a copy to simplify it to make it easier to use. I
make a new layer and put my simplification on it. I also print it
out and mark all the vertices's on the plot so I can check them as I
enter them. Get the building structure in first, let everything
else default, get the program running with no major building
errors. And get a back-up ASAP! Then start working on your
systems. Each time you finish a section finish the wizard, run a
simulation, fix important errors, many you can ignore and with
experience you will know which ones. Save a copy, and go back into
the wizard and do another section. Round and round. Windows last.<br>
It is a rough learning curve but worth it. eQuest is an excellent
program once you learn how to use it. The key is not to jump in
with both feet, ie input an entire building, systems, windows,
everything in one go. It won't go. There is also a 99% chance
eQuest will just freeze and you will lose your input. You can blow
many days to weeks of work and not have a clue what the error was
that crashed eQuest. It is impossible to get an error free input so
don't try.<br>
The next important resource is your Projects folder, the BDL
file, and the INP file. You can open both with a text editor. If
things aren't running you can get valuable clues from the BDL file
as to what eQuest was processing when it kicked out. If it runs
through it will create the INP file, also good for checking for
inconsistencies. The other important file is the PD2, that is your
wizard input. Last but not least, if your simulation runs, which is
processing the INP file you will get the SIM file which can also be
opened with a text editor.<br>
There may be a few errors/gaps in this response, I have not had
eQuest open in a month or 2 and this is off the top of my head.
Hopefully if anything is glaring one of my fellow modellers will
point it out.<br>
Good Luck and have lots of patience.<br>
Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.<br>
Abode Engineering<br>
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On 22/10/2010 12:40 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Jose.L.Correa@jci.com">Jose.L.Correa@jci.com</a> wrote:
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Bruce,</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I am new to eQuest and wonder if
you
can send me the walkthrough tutorial, or any other material, you
talked
about in the eQuest blog</font>
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Thank you,<br>
<br>
José Luis <br>
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