[Equest-users] How to import 2 eQuest input files with the same origin?

[Robby Oylear]

Kathryn,

Unfortunately YREF & XREF are Building Parameters which apply to all floors
within a model.  When you import the other building into the first model,
only one of the Building Parameters will be in effect.  Since eQUEST thinks
all of the floors are part of the same building, there's no way to group
them into separate buildings.  Another way to think about this is that the
building parameters is defining the origin of the building coordinate
system.  You can't have two origins.

I think you're going to have to manually go to each floor and from the
other building and change the X, Y values to the appropriate coordinates
for whichever building you want to move relative to the other.

-Robby


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Kathryn Kerns <
kathryn.kerns at bceengineers.com> wrote:

>  Everyone, I have 2 lovely Detailed Edit buildings, both with their lower
> left hand corners at the building origin of 0,0 that I would like to
> combine using the Import function. To do this, I need to move one building
> origin point from 0,0 to 200, 0. I thought that setting the same latitude
> and longitude for both buildings and then setting the YREF and XREF
> distances to 200, 0 on one building would do the trick, but it seems not. I
> get error messages and the 3D view clearly shows the buildings on top of
> each other because they have the same building origin.****
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> So, is there a way to shift a building origin point for an eQuest model in
> the Detailed Edit and if so, where is it? Or do I have to do something else?
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