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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Did you change your building orientation in the wizard? I know this sometimes messes with things, such as skylights. I always wait until the detailed mode and change the azimuth there rather than trying to deal with it in the wizard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Easterbrook<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> Nick Caton<br><b>Cc:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>I remember an array function in the skylight section. I used it a year ago so don't have much recollection of where it was but it was in the wizards. You could do a 1x whatever to get your 90'<br>Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.<br>Abode Engineering<br></span><br>On 11/05/2011 11:42 AM, Nick Caton wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well, it took a little extra wrangling, but I’ve got at least one approach that sorta embraces this wonky behavior… Something I can’t control wants to rotate any shape 90 degrees, and swapping the width/length results in a 90 ft long strip won’t fit on the sloped surface (causing the wizards to choke up and gasp for air – oh the horror!)… So what the heck - (3) 30ft strips spaced 30ft on center seems to do the trick for each row:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img width=877 height=854 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image001.png@01CC0FDD.E9C23630"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img width=824 height=671 id="Picture_x0020_13" src="cid:image002.png@01CC0FDD.E9C23630"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Close enough =D! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I can’t get these to end up near the roof ridge where they are in reality, but I have bigger fish to fry in this model to get really further hung up on aesthetics... Hope this band-aid fix helps someone else down the road… If anyone knows of a more elegant solution, or how one might avoid this “auto-rotating” feature, please do share!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Peace out,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~Nick</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img width=119 height=37 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC0FDD.E9C23630" alt="cid:489575314@22072009-0ABB"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>NICK CATON, E.I.T.</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#CC9900'>PROJECT ENGINEER</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>Smith & Boucher Engineers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>25501 west valley parkway</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>olathe ks 66061</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>direct 913 344.0036</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>fax 913 345.0617</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="www.smithboucher.com" title="blocked::www.smithboucher.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.smithboucher.com</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> </span></u><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><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"'> Nick Caton <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hey everyone!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know at least one right answer to this is to just skip the wizards, but this one is bugging me as it’s realllly close!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Can anyone suggest a wizard-level fix for when a skylight layout screen like this…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=877 height=854 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image004.png@01CC0FDD.E9C23630"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>…ends up looking like this on closing the wizards?:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=886 height=666 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image005.png@01CC0FDD.E9C23630"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve had almost zero luck with wizard-generated pitched roofs in the past, but this one is *nearly* there, haha! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any thoughts would be appreciated =),<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>~Nick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=119 height=37 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC0FDD.E9C23630" alt="cid:489575314@22072009-0ABB"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>NICK CATON, E.I.T.</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#CC9900'>PROJECT ENGINEER</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>Smith & Boucher Engineers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>25501 west valley parkway</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>olathe ks 66061</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>direct 913 344.0036</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>fax 913 345.0617</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="www.smithboucher.com" title="blocked::www.smithboucher.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.smithboucher.com</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> </span></u><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Equest-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>