[Bldg-sim] new to eQuest, need help with varying floor shapes

[Aulbach, John]

Hi Cramer:
 
I have never used TRNSYS, but I always had the impression it was more
process versus whole building oriented.
 
You will want to build your differently shaped floors in the Design
Development (DD) Wizard. The Schematic Wizard only allow on shape. In
the DD Wizard, you can trace AutoCAD DWG files to develop each floor.
My drift on the "shell" concept is that it is indeed a floor, where
there are several zones on the same level. The shell can also be the
floor of another building, thus the ability not only to to different
floor plans in the same building, but different buildings in the same
run.
 
Hope this gets you started.
 
John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM
Project Manager
Nexant, Inc.
701 West Kimberly Ave., Suite 245
Placentia, CA 92870-6342 USA
Phone: 714-524-4402
Fax: 714-524-4407
email: jaulbach at nexant.com
 

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Subject: [Bldg-sim] new to eQuest, need help with varying floor shapes


Hi All,
 
I'm new to eQuest, testing it out to see if we like it for some modeling
tasks over our current software (Trnsys). I'm trying to model a building
in which every floor has a different shape. Can someone tell me the best
way to approach this? Should each floor be a new shell? For that matter,
what is a 'shell', anyways? 
 
Thanks,
Cramer
 

J. Cramer Silkworth

Transsolar Climate Engineering

Technical consulting for energy efficiency and environmental quality in
buildings.

145 Hudson Street

Suite 402

New York, NY 10013

Office: 212-219-2255

silkworth at transsolar.com

 
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