[Equest-users] Common walls

[STEVE SAMENSKI]

I agree with Bill: eQuest can figure out when two different shells share the
same wall.  If one wall is higher than the other, eQuest will create an
exterior wall surface on the higher wall while maintaining the interior or
adiabatic surface (I haven¹t looked at it too closely) on the shared portion
of the wall.  I find it helpful to be VERY careful in the Wizard input to
make sure you¹re choosing the same points / nodes.  A small error here seems
to confuse the program.

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On 9/17/10 8:40 AM, "Bishop, Bill" <wbishop at pathfinder-ea.com> wrote:

> Pranita,
>  
> I think this feature was added with version 3.63. Wherever the exterior walls
> of two shells occupy the same vertical plane, the eQUEST wizard creates
> adiabatic interior walls in adjacent spaces, which is usually what you would
> want. It will do this even if the shell heights vary. Unfortunately, the
> wizard does not do the same thing when you stack shells vertically. You have
> to choose roof or no roof for the entire shell in the wizard and then
> remove/create roof surfaces in DD edit mode if your shells have different
> footprints.
>  
> Regards,
> Bill
>  
> 
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> From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
> [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Grammy
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 6:01 AM
> To: pranita kothuru
> Cc: equest-users
> Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Common walls
>  
> No, eQuest can't handle such complicated things.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:46 AM, pranita kothuru <pranita.kothuru at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> Pranita
> 
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