[Equest-users] Use of shells for non-repeating floor shapes

[Carol Gardner]

Richard,

I wouldn't use the word essential. When you create a shell in the wizard you
have the option of calling out the roof, walls, and floor. Within your
wizard shell you cannot split the top of it to be half roof/half exposed to
another floor. They ways around that are to use 2 shells, one with the with
another floor above it and one with a roof above it, or call it all roof and
edit it appropriately when you are in the detailed data edit. While you are
doing this keep in mind and schedule/usage differences you will have as well
as your mechanical zones.

Hope that helps,
Carol

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Richard Williams <Richard.Williams at arup.com
> wrote:

>  Thanks Carol and Steve,
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> Is it essential to create different shells for each exposure combination,
> or just a good idea? I’m worried about ending up with many dozens of zones.
> If it is only optional, how else can I get eQuest to distinguish between
> internal and external adjacencies? Can it be done within the overlapping
> shells, using zones maybe? The attached sketch may help to explain my
> question.
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> Thanks again.
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> Richard
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> *From:* Carol Gardner [mailto:cmg750 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 24 March 2010 15:58
> *To:* Richard Williams
> *Cc:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Use of shells for non-repeating floor shapes
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> Yes to what Steve said too. As you input your polygons check really closely
> that your spaces don't overlap and that you selected the right command for
> your floors, e;g; on the ground vs exposed to ambient, as well as your
> roofs. Specifying your sight coordinates for each shell from the get go
> seems to give you control, too. When space walls are off by even .05 is when
> you get surprised by an exterior wall where you were sure you specified an
> interior one. I have been anal enough to retype my vertices just to be sure
> since I'm pretty convinced you can be off by a bit when you just click on
> one.
> Carol
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Carol Gardner <cmg750 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Richard,
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> I would make a shell for each different exposure. For instance where your
> building is exposed to ground versus air, where your building is exposed to
> air versus another floor, where it is exposed to a roof versus air. I would
> also take into consideration thermal zoning. Minimizing zones is good but
> using them to make your life easier is too.
>
> Carol
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> PS if you sent two exposures we could probably say more.
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Richard Williams <
> Richard.Williams at arup.com> wrote:
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> Dear all
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> I am trying to understand how best to minimise use of shells. I am trying
> to model a building which has jagged shaped floors which overlap and
> cantilever all over the place. The attached sketch is a simplified section
> of the building showing how the floors change up the building. I’ve reached
> the conclusion that, although it is undesirable to have many shells, I will
> need a shell for each floor. Additionally, for floors broken into several
> separate blocks (eg level 1 on the attached) I will need a shell for each
> block. Please let me know if I am missing something?!
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> Regards
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> Richard
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