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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Xiangjin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If the building is mirrored on an east-west axis so that the north wall now faces south and south is now north, but east is still east and west is still west, how about changing
the latitude from X degrees north to X degrees south? This won’t work if the building is mirrored on a north-south axis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Julien Marrec via Bldg-sim [mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xiangjin Yang <XYang@mcw.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] How to mirror a building in eQUEST<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That's a very interesting question, one where it seems simple but turns out it's going to be awful to redo from scratch in equest if you have a large model.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't have a solution that will work out of the box but if you're wiling to spend some time coding instead of drawing I have the start of a python object oriented model for equest where I can parse equests envelope and play with it. Offsetting
all windows on a wall or copying them from floor to floors works for example.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The limit is that I haven't developed it enough to figure out "defaulted" attributes nor to include enough methods to allow the users to not have to figure out by themselves how the geometry is articulated in equest between floor and space
polygons and the surface locations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also pretty much didn't write any documentation but I've commented the code (python) extensively.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was planing on extending it to read and write between equest and sketchup but I've abandoned the project.(not using equest much anymore).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can share that if you want.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There's also something called BTAP as part of the openstudio-standards that translate an equest model in the openstudio format, not sure if it can write the other way around as well (and it has a bunch of problems with "defaulted" attributes
such as construction and will throw a hard error).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Frankly if your model isn't too big I'd just do it by hand..<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Julien <br>
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Envoyé de mon iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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Le 27 avr. 2016 à 17:18, Xiangjin Yang via Bldg-sim <<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have a two phases project. Phase 1 building has been modelled in eQUEST and Phase 2 is mirrored from Phase 1. Can any of you advise me how to mirror the Phase 1 so I can get
the Phase 2 done without creating it from scratch. I thought of adding a negative sign to each vertex of each polygon in .inp file, but the polygons have to be defined in a CCW direction, which leaves the problem unsolved.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks for your helps.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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