[Equest-users] renaming space area types

[Pasha Korber-Gonzalez]

at this point in time renaming happens in DDedit mode.   Would be nice to
have the function to name our own spaces in the wizard (someday
maybe---fingers crossed.)  But remember, any good energy model and any good
energy modeler will move thier model into DDedit mode to finish the detailed
inputs and create any type of compliance model.   The wizards just make too
many assumptions and lock out too many detailed inputs (case-in-point) to
perform a quality whole building energy simulation (i.e. project is in 75 %
DD or later in design stage.)

I am not 'bashing' the wizards in anyway, they are *very* useful to getting
a model setup and make many steps of building a whole building model very
efficient & less time-intensive than somethings compared to ddedit mode.  In
the long run, DDedit mode is where you want to be to use the full range of
capabilities built into eQuest.

pkg

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, M. Shields <mshields at fstrategies.com>wrote:

>  To my knowledge it is not possible to rename the space type within the
> wizard.  It can be done in detailed edit mode if you go to the properties
> for the space under the building shell tab.
>
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>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Michael Shields
>
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> equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *James Hansen
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:51 AM
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> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] renaming space area types
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>
> Does anyone know if it’s possible to rename space area types in the
> “Activity Areas Allocation” page?
>
>
>
> Whenever I’m entering stairs and elevator shafts, I end up having to assign
> them to “unknown” and “all others” since those are the two non-descript
> activity areas available.  It’s not a big deal to remember that “unknown” is
> stairs and “all others” is shafts, but it would make it more readable if we
> could rename space types.
>
>
>
> I tried modifying the “unknown” space activity allocation in the .pd2 file,
> but all that did was force the wizard to use the original space type listed
> for that line (conference).
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>
>
> Seems like it’s probably a programming item within eQuest, but just wanted
> to see if anyone else had luck doing this.
>
>
>
> I’d be willing to work with a DLL decompiler if the information on the
> activity areas is within one of them…just don’t know where to start.
>
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> Thanks!
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