[Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!
Bishop, Bill
wbishop at pathfinder-ea.com
Wed May 11 08:20:38 PDT 2011
Nick,
You could try reversing the width and length dimensions.
Your model looks like you will run into a similar situation as I did
with an "under-roof" zone, so I added some old correspondence:
Bishop, Bill wrote:
>Guys,
>
>I didn't know that the Wizard created two roof surfaces for skylights.
>Interesting.
>
>In my project, eQUEST generated an under-roof zone (not a plenum) below
>the sloped roof and above the zones in the top floor of the building,
>even though the actual building has no ceiling. (The roof is the
>ceiling.) I had put skylights in the roof surface, but they belonged to
>the under-roof space, so eQUEST wouldn't model daylighting for the
>space "below" the under-roof space.
>
>So, as suggested, I created new exterior walls using the same polygons
>as the roof surfaces (and I modified them to decrease their area, even
>though I probably didn't have to). I gave the "roof" walls a new
>construction with U - 0.0001, and made sure they were not shading
>surfaces. Then I created skylights in the exterior walls. I kept the
>original roof surfaces, but deleted the skylights that I had created in
>them previously. And it seems to work just fine, with a modest amount
>of daylighting savings.
>
>Thanks,
>Bill
Regards,
Bill
From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Nick
Caton
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:56 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] 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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