[Equest-users] Changing U values of walls

[Dayani Nayantha]

Cheng and Nick,

Thank you very much for the valuable advises and sparing your time to
answer me.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Nick Caton <ncaton at smithboucher.com> wrote:

>  Dayani,****
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> Before tackling specific questions such as this, I advise spending time to
> first familiarize yourself with the software by making a simple model.
> Start up the program, choose to  create a new project, select “design
> development wizard,” then invest your time exploring all the input screens
> and windows available for the wizard mode.  As an exercise, build a simple
> model of the building you work in or any simple building you are familiar
> with, and spend a moment to consider how each input applies to creating
> that model before moving on to the next screen.  Notice some screens are
> unavailable until you choose to use a certain system or choose to use
> optional inputs for a shell.****
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> On finishing the above, you will be prepared to leverage the wizards for
> simple models and studies, and ready to approach learning detailed mode
> edits – which make some wizard-level things easier and are necessary to
> leverage the larger portion of what this software can accomplish.****
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> To answer your follow up directly, you can define U-values for
> constructions both in wizard mode and in detailed mode.  Cheng shared a
> screenshot of one means of doing this in the detailed mode (another is in
> the spreadsheet view).  You get to either by navigating to Building Shell
> tab, selecting the construction in the component tree to the left (you’ll
> probably need to scroll down a bit), then either make the edit in
> spreadsheet view – easier when you need to make the same change to many
> components, or doubleclick the component to make the change in the input
> window Cheng showed.****
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> How you define the construction can be important – search the archives or
> read the associated help entries to understand the differences between
> constructions defined only by U-value and those defined with layers.  I
> generally use layers and edit one or more layers to achieve a target
> U-value.****
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> The alternative is to make the construction edits in the wizards, within
> the shell input screens.  You can choose to either generally specify the
> layers of the construction, or to define a custom construction, again
> either in layers and/or with an specified overall R-value.  Same cautions
> about non-layered constructions apply from above.  Following show the DD
> wizard input screens I’m discussing:****
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> Best of luck,****
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> ~Nick****
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> *From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Dayani Nayantha
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:00 PM
> *To:* Cheng Tian
> *Cc:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Changing U values of walls****
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> I'm new to eQUEST software and i can't find a way to get this window. Can
> you please tell me the path to follow?****
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> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Cheng Tian <cheng.tian at arup.com> wrote:**
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> *From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Dayani Nayantha
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:31 AM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] Changing U values of walls****
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> Hi,****
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> Can anyone tell me how can we change the U values of the opaque elements
> in the eQUEST?
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Best Regards

Dayani Nayantha
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