Nick,<div><br></div><div>It's the "might" that makes it worthwhile to define your vertices exactly in the same location if you want an interior partition created between the two. eQUEST does have some capability for approximating your intent of two vertices being adjacent, however I have not been able to determine where the tipping point is between "close enough" and "ADIABATIC". </div>
<div><br></div><div>As mentioned above, the same can go for exterior walls where sometimes eQUEST does pick up on the fact that your single vertex on an exterior floor line should result in an exterior wall, however I've witnessed plenty of cases where an interior wall gets created on an exterior exposure.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Robby<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Nick Caton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com" target="_blank">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Robby’s illustration is helpful and the point is well taken as a ‘best practice’ to avoid user-errors during geometry defnition, but I think I can dispel the
“next-to” concerns here and show this is simpler than it may seem…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I recreated your illustration with a quick dummy model and confirmed the quantity of vertices (4 vs. 6) for “zone 1” has zero effect on the quantity of internal
partitions created/assigned. In any case I try to define it, the model is generated with all appropriate partitions and next-to inputs (I cannot recreate Omer’s issue as described with spaces not being tied together or adiabatic partitions being created).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The only thing I can think of for Omer’s situation is that (1) it’s worth noting the model should be making only
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Internal Wall Problems with Wizard<u></u><u></u></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I should probably clarify that the vertices shown in the sketch belong to Zone 1. It is not enough to just define those vertices in Zones 2-4.<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Ömer Moltay <<a href="mailto:omoltay@mimtarch.com" target="_blank">omoltay@mimtarch.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<br>
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I have realized that while creating the model after Wizard entries, eQuest will fail to determine the NEXT-TO property for interior walls that are adjacent to more than one zone and all those interior walls will be defined as ADIABATIC.<br>
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Also, I see that interior walls are missing from zones where another zone has an ADIABATIC wall in the same place.<br>
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I see no way of having a model with all interior walls correctly defined without fixing all these problems after the Wizard. Does everybody have the same experience or am I missing something?<br>
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