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is to model them as a window – a child component housed within a wall (parent component). The trick is you have to make your windows minutely smaller than the parent wall – otherwise you will get an error.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>katia<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> eQuest help<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Simulation error due to thickness</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear equest-users,<br>
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While entering my real exterior walls layer by layer and simulating, I'm obtaining an error:<br>
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"Cannot simulate layers as given. Walls thickness is too thin or too light"<br>
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In fact, my exterior walls are glass walls with a thickness of 1.5 cm only!<br>
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How can I solve this problem?<br>
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Thank you<br>
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KL</span></p>
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