[Equest-users] Issues with cordinates

pranita kothuru pranita.kothuru at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 14:41:47 PDT 2010


Does eQuest understand the common wall areas between 2 buildings (when
drafted as different shells since the heights vary, drafted in DD Wizardat
is the procedure to  fix this.

P.








On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, pranita kothuru
<pranita.kothuru at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello -
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> I am new to eQuest. Previouslty carried out a project by creating a
> building model in Revit taking into GBS-using the gbXML file to import into
> eQuest.
> This was a fairly simple process and I was able to conduct the project
> well.
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> Now am working on project and drafter the plan in AutoCAD. The place I work
> has only AutoCAD LT so no accessability of any other 3d softwares.
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> Te building is a sports center. I have simplified it into 4 blocks which
> all have different heights.(all the blocks are attached, not laid out
> separetly).
> I have been using the DD Wizard and trying to make 4 different blocks. Each
> time I do the first block and start the second the alignment is gone. I use
> the same world coordinated from the AutoCAD file.
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> -What are site corodinates. What should one insert when importing a autoCAD
> file.
> - How do we make the 2nd part of the building. (i understand tht we need to
> create new shell, but there are so many options such as underlay the first
> building u did, coordinates etc etc)
> - What is the easiet and fatest way to do this.
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> thank You.
> P.
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Pranita Kothuru, LEED AP
Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Sustainable Design 2009
pkothuru at andrew.cmu.edu
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