Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] L shaped floor geometry

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:48 PM 6/12/2007, krgowri wrote:

>I have an L shaped floor which shows up as a 'polyline' with some
>thickness in DXF if I enter the six coordinates in one surface object.
>  However, if I enter it as two rectangular surfaces they show up as
>two 'surfaces' in the DXF file.  Does the DXF rendering give any
>indication of how the surface is treated by EnergyPlus for load
>calculations?

No.

Polyline/thick line is the default for >4 sided surface 
representation in the DXF file.  You can also choose to have the 
program "triangulate" that >4 sided surface for better pictures.

But the inside representation/calculations has nothing to do with the DXF view.

Linda

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