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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Antoine,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the complex fenestration window doesn’t handle this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The error really depends on how the window is curved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Instead of using an area-weighted slope you could also try to subdivide the windows in several planar ones and check if the simplification is really changing results significantly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Marion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Von:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"> TRNSYS-users [mailto:trnsys-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Antoine Gautier via TRNSYS-users<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2017 16:28<br>
<b>An:</b> 'TRNSYS users mailing list at OneBuilding.org' <trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [TRNSYS-users] Curved window<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dear users<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Is there a recommended practice for modelling curved windows?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Especially:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Do the new features of Complex Fenestration Systems account for that kind of geometry?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Is there any published reference which I could use to get an assessment of the uncertainty resulting from
a simplified approach with an area-weighted average slope?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks for any advice on this matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">Best</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:FR">Antoine Gautier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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