[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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