<div>Yusuf--eQuest has the ability to create a "campus" of buildings within one file. You just have to make sure that your XYZ coordinates for each building and/or building shell are appropriate within the site coordinates so that you don't inadvertantly stack one house on top of the other....</div>
<div> </div><div>If your DWG files are laid out accordingly to the site plans then you should be able to just "trace" each individual house into the EQuest wizard without issue. I suggest building each house as one-shell and then you can label them with individual names or addresses. If they are identical in size and shape then you can just import one shell and then copy them into the other buildings and adjust thier position within the site coordinates by adjusting the values of each shell in the wizard.</div>
<div> </div><div>At some point I anticipate that you will have to move past the wizard mode and into DD edit mode especially if you are going to define the central plant characteristics serving the site.</div><div> </div>
<div>If this isn't completely clear to you then feel free to email back and we can walk through more of the details together.</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Pasha<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Michael Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwilson@enerficiency.ca">mwilson@enerficiency.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Hi Yusuf. I would suggest a couple of ways of doing this. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Create each building and villa as a separate project. Then add up the results in a spreadsheet, multiplying for the number of each villa. If the villas are not all the same orientation, you’ll need to change the orientation around and re-run for each orientation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">If for some reason you need everything in one model (e.g. they are served by a central plant, or a common utility rate structure that can’t be approximated individually), then its a bit more complicated. Save the villas with different orientations as separate projects as well. Then use shell multiplier to multiply each villa by the appropriate amount. Make sure you use a different shell component prefix and HVAC component prefix for each project. The use import to import each project into a common project. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Yusuf Turab<br>
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</div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Members<br><br> I am new to e-quest and I find it difficult to understand how I can model a large housing community. We are trying to model a project which has 325 villas of 6 different types and 5 different common facilities making it 11 different types of buildings scattered in different parts of the site. I understand that the DD wizard allows one to model multiple shells, how do I go about doing this for a 25 acre plot. Also what is the best zoning pattern to be followed when modelling individual single storied homes. Many Thanks.<br>
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