[Bldg-sim] eQuest - converting these interior walls to exteriorwalls

[Steve Mignogna]

Jessica-

You can edit the .input file to change a wall from exterior to interior and
vise-versa

1) You would need to change the tag from "EXTERIOR-WALL" to "INTERIOR-WALL"
2) Change the construction.
3) Take out the shading surface tag if you have that specified for the
exterior wall.
4) You will also need to add a tag like {NEXT-TO = "Space that Its next to"}

Its tedious but if its only a few walls it shouldn't be that bad.

"Name of Wall" = INTERIOR-WALL
   NEXT-TO          = "Space its next to"
   CONSTRUCTION     = "IWall Construction"
   LOCATION         = SPACE-V2
   ..

"Name of Wall" = EXTERIOR-WALL
   CONSTRUCTION     = "EWall Const"
   LOCATION         = SPACE-V5
   SHADING-SURFACE  = YES
   ..

-- 
Steve Mignogna
Atelier Ten


On Jan 30, 2008 1:28 PM, Jonathan Curtin <jcurtin at wylieassociates.com>
wrote:

>  Jessica,
>
> I believe that in the eQUEST wizard if your defined zone walls are even
> the slightest bit off from what you defined as the building footprint, they
> will not be recognized as exterior walls. You could go through the wizard to
> correct this, create a new exterior wall in the detailed design mode and
> delete the interior wall, or go to the .inp file to change the wall type.
> You can't easily change a wall type from interior to exterior within eQUEST.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> *Jonathan Curtin EIT, LEED AP*
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> bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *McCready, Jessica
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:23 PM
> *To:* bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] eQuest - converting these interior walls to
> exteriorwalls
>
>  Hello all again.
>
> I've imported a CAD drawing, using schematic design mode I drew the custom
> foot print and then the custom individual zones. I have a couple of exterior
> walls that show up as interior walls, even after a lot of tweaking. Any
> suggestions for converting these interior walls to exterior walls (simply)?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Jessica E. McCready
> Energy Engineer
> KEMA Services Inc.
> 492 Ninth Street, Suite 220
> Oakland, CA 94607
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