<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I am going to try a real "barn burner", something i have had limited success with. Save your file, make a play copy, then take the play copy and reconvert to Wizard. Dont worry about losing your references. Make your changes for zoning, including windows.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Then "cookie cutter" your new spaces into the original .INP file (you need to keep your original file intact, and only deal with "copies of copies. Dont forget to include your new polygons (replace all of them ??).</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Kathryn Kerns [mailto:kathryn.kerns@bceengineers.com] <BR clear=none><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 07, 2014 12:42 PM<BR clear=none><B>To:</B> Kevin Kyte; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<BR clear=none><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Equest-users] eQUEST v3.65 build 7163 released Mar 18 2014 - fixes hourly report viewer</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Kevin, I understand your frustration. The most time wasting thing about eQuest is its inability to reorganize spaces easily within its Wizard footprint without going back into the Wizard and blowing out all the DE edits. Architects can’t leave floor plans alone, and inevitably, the final interior zones in a model are different from the zones you started with. My bosses have commented on this unfortunate issue more then once because it causes deadline delays. </SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Does anyone have some suggestions other than going back into the Wizard, reorganizing the zones, and then trying to insert the changes into the original DE model? Inserting the geometric changes seems to be the biggest problem. Has anyone found an easy way to do that?</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</A> [<A href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Kevin Kyte<BR clear=none><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 07, 2014 6:44 AM<BR clear=none><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</A><BR clear=none><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Equest-users] eQUEST v3.65 build 7163 released Mar 18 2014 - fixes hourly report viewer</SPAN><SPAN
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I am entirely disappointed with the so called improvements to equest. Why suddenly when I have a space with an unreferenced zone and I recreate the reference to about 30 zones, then close and reopen, all work to unreferenced spaces is gone. Also, trying to implement floor plan revisions have always been the worst. This is uncalled for. In the 8 years or so that I have been using this program, it has improved very little overall and perhaps taken a step backwards in some regards. I have been telling myself to make this project the last one in equest for years now, even doing openstudio side-by-side with equest for the building form for many. It might be safe to say that equest is no longer the most productive. It does not bring me pleasure to write this, as I will have to do the painstaking process of becoming more familiar with openstudio and wasting
a few hundred more hours. However, it seems that may be more worthwhile than dealing with the glitches and everyday slowisms of equest.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Brian Fountain [<A href="mailto:bfountain@greensim.com" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:bfountain@greensim.com">mailto:bfountain@greensim.com</A>] <BR clear=none><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:42 AM<BR clear=none><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</A><BR clear=none><B>Subject:</B> [Equest-users] eQUEST v3.65 build 7163 released Mar 18 2014 - fixes hourly report viewer</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>I was visiting doe2.com this morning (as you do from time to time -- you know) and found that there was a relatively recent release of a new v 3.65 build. From the “what’s new” document:</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>eQUEST v3.65</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>build 7163 – public release ~ 18 March 2014 – w/ DOE-2.2 v48r </SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Fixes:</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>• Fixed issues with the simulation detailed results viewer application (D2SimViewer.exe) that </SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>prevented the viewing of hourly results in some instances (all appeared as zero values) when </SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>the correct results were located on the simulation output file (the .sim file).</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>• Fixed issues with the installation procedure sometimes failing in cases where the installation is </SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>directed to a drive mounted from a network location.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Since I just sent this to the whole mailing list, you may wish to <I>wait for a few days</I> before downloading the new build. I don’t want to cause an unexpected flood of download requests on the doe2.com site.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>If others notice a new eQUEST release, please post a note here. I tend to miss them.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Cheers,</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv0109284198MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Brian</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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