[Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!

[Nick Caton]

Charles:  Great suggestion, but nope - azimuth hasn't been touched yet
in this project...  On a related note, I've seen azimuth play mean games
before too... I try to do all zoning layouts and wizard-level work
"orthogonally" as a result, even if the actual orientation is skewed in
that sense.

 

Bruce: That array layout function is still floating around and is my
preference to this (newer?) custom layout approach, but I can't engage
those inputs when using a pitched roof, it would seem.  

 

Thanks for the input!

 

~Nick

 

 

NICK CATON, E.I.T.

PROJECT ENGINEER

Smith & Boucher Engineers

25501 west valley parkway

olathe ks 66061

direct 913 344.0036

fax 913 345.0617

www.smithboucher.com 

 

From: Charles Land [mailto:cland at geo-marine.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:18 PM
To: Bruce Easterbrook; Nick Caton
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!

 

Did you change your building orientation in the wizard?  I know this
sometimes messes with things, such as skylights.  I always wait until
the detailed mode and change the azimuth there rather than trying to
deal with it in the wizard.

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Bruce
Easterbrook
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:16 PM
To: Nick Caton
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!

 

I remember an array function in the skylight section.  I used it a year
ago so don't have much recollection of where it was but it was in the
wizards.  You could do a 1x whatever to get your 90'
Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.
Abode Engineering

On 11/05/2011 11:42 AM, Nick Caton wrote: 

Well, it took a little extra wrangling, but I've got at least one
approach that sorta embraces this wonky behavior... Something I can't
control wants to rotate any shape 90 degrees, and swapping the
width/length results in a 90 ft long strip won't fit on the sloped
surface (causing the wizards to choke up and gasp for air - oh the
horror!)... So what the heck -  (3) 30ft strips spaced 30ft on center
seems to do the trick for each row:

 

 

 

Close enough =D!  

 

I can't get these to end up near the roof ridge where they are in
reality, but I have bigger fish to fry in this model to get really
further hung up on aesthetics...  Hope this band-aid fix helps someone
else down the road...  If anyone knows of a more elegant solution, or
how one might avoid this "auto-rotating" feature, please do share!

 

Peace out,

 

~Nick



 

NICK CATON, E.I.T.

PROJECT ENGINEER

Smith & Boucher Engineers

25501 west valley parkway

olathe ks 66061

direct 913 344.0036

fax 913 345.0617

www.smithboucher.com 

 

From: Nick Caton 
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:56 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!

 

Hey everyone!

 

I know at least one right answer to this is to just skip the wizards,
but this one is bugging me as it's realllly close!


Can anyone suggest a wizard-level fix for when a skylight layout screen
like this...

 

 

...ends up looking like this on closing the wizards?:

 

 

I've had almost zero luck with wizard-generated pitched roofs in the
past, but this one is *nearly* there, haha!  

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated =),

 

~Nick

 



 

NICK CATON, E.I.T.

PROJECT ENGINEER

Smith & Boucher Engineers

25501 west valley parkway

olathe ks 66061

direct 913 344.0036

fax 913 345.0617

www.smithboucher.com 

 

 
 
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