<p>Hello everyone,</p><p>This is my first post to this forum - have been using eQuest for a few months now, having used VisualDOE for a few years. I am modeling a large building (about 50 stories, with 21 different shells), and currently I have one system per floor (34 systems total). However, when I try to change the system type for even one system, eQuest crashes. Also, every time I go into DD Wizard to simplify my model and exit the wizard, I would get an "Unhandled Exception" error and eQuest would crash again. Besides, I have about 74,000 windows in the model too. </p>
<p>It'd be great if someone could point out what is wrong with the limited information I can explain above, but to resolve my issue, I am considering alternative solutions and would appreciate if you guys can comment on them: </p>
<ol><li>Is there a way to avoid creating Top, Middle and Bottom floors for multiplied floors and have only one floor? Cutting down on two extra floors for every shell with mutipliers might help. </li><li>Is there a way to split up the model into two, enter all inputs seperately and then import one model into another to complete the model and run the simulations? I know this sounds complicated, but would appreciate some pointers from people who have successfully tried this before.</li>
</ol><p>Thanks, </p><p>RK.</p>