[Equest-users] Internal Wall Problems with Wizard

[Robby Oylear]

I should probably clarify that the vertices shown in the sketch belong to
Zone 1.  It is not enough to just define those vertices in Zones 2-4.

-Robby

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Robby Oylear <robbyoylear at gmail.com> wrote:

> Omer,
>
> The simplest way to ensure that eQUEST defines the NEXT-TO property
> correctly is to make sure that each interior wall only interfaces with one
> other interior wall.
>
> In the situation you describe where you have an interior wall that is
> adjacent to more than one zone, I would typically split that interior wall
> into two or three walls by adding vertices at each of the intersections
> between the zones and the interior wall that spans them.
>
> Here's a sketch of what I'm describing:
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Ömer Moltay <omoltay at mimtarch.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have realized that while creating the model after Wizard entries,
>> eQuest will fail to determine the NEXT-TO property for interior walls that
>> are adjacent to more than one zone and all those interior walls will be
>> defined as ADIABATIC.
>>
>> Also, I see that interior walls are missing from zones where another zone
>> has an ADIABATIC wall in the same place.
>>
>> I see no way of having a model with all interior walls correctly defined
>> without fixing all these problems after the Wizard. Does everybody have the
>> same experience or am I missing something?
>>
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