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color:#1F497D">You need to model basement as a separate shell from the other 4 floors.  You then need to change “Exposure” on wizard screen 3/25 for the above grade floors
 to “Over Conditioned Space (adiabatic)”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> aida darghouth asli [mailto:darghouthasli.aida@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 02, 2010 7:06 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Modeling below grade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to model a building with 4 floors and 2 basements with eQUEST. I succeffuly imported the .dwg file and modeled the above grade part but i have aproblem with the below grade since it doesnt have the same shape as the ground floor.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please provide me with your advice as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">DAKA<o:p></o:p></p>
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