[Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!

[Charles Land]

Did you change your building orientation in the wizard?  I know this sometimes messes with things, such as skylights.  I always wait until the detailed mode and change the azimuth there rather than trying to deal with it in the wizard.

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Easterbrook
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:16 PM
To: Nick Caton
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Another skylight conundrum! Yuck!

I remember an array function in the skylight section.  I used it a year ago so don't have much recollection of where it was but it was in the wizards.  You could do a 1x whatever to get your 90'
Bruce Easterbrook P.Eng.
Abode Engineering

On 11/05/2011 11:42 AM, Nick Caton wrote:
Well, it took a little extra wrangling, but I've got at least one approach that sorta embraces this wonky behavior... Something I can't control wants to rotate any shape 90 degrees, and swapping the width/length results in a 90 ft long strip won't fit on the sloped surface (causing the wizards to choke up and gasp for air - oh the horror!)... So what the heck -  (3) 30ft strips spaced 30ft on center seems to do the trick for each row:

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Close enough =D!

I can't get these to end up near the roof ridge where they are in reality, but I have bigger fish to fry in this model to get really further hung up on aesthetics...  Hope this band-aid fix helps someone else down the road...  If anyone knows of a more elegant solution, or how one might avoid this "auto-rotating" feature, please do share!

Peace out,

~Nick
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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

From: Nick Caton
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:56 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: 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...
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...ends up looking like this on closing the wizards?:
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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

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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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