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Methods of creating building model
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Methods of creating building model
Changing Building Orientation
Glazed area and Frame area
How to change an existing background Floor Plan
How to Change Room Name
Adjacent Tolerance setting
Analytical Space Model from OpenBuildings Designer
Conceptual Model
Creating a new Floor and importing floor plan
Infiltration settings
Self Shading from your Building Model
Shading Analysis
Show all floors option
ASM Validation - Energy Settings
Changing surface properties
Disregard Internal Heat Transfer
Using Room Mapping Facility
GBXML Import
Modelling a Building without Floor Plan Drawings
Modelling Brise Soleil in your energy model
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Trace room not working due to Active Floor
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Methods of creating building model
Product(s):
OpenBuildings Energy Simulator
Version(s):
CONNECT Edition
Area:
Building Modelling
Overview
There are several different ways of creating your building in OpenBuildings Energy Simulator.
Method
Standard Project
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The standard method is to trace your rooms directly in the OpenBuildings Energy Simulator modeller. For this floor plans are imported (DGN/DXF/DWG) and then used to trace the 3D rooms. To do so select
Standard Project
when starting your project.
Conceptual Project
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this is a quick method of entering the basic building geometry manually. The software then creates a simple model which can be used for preliminary calculations.
Hevacomp Model Import
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Existing Hevacomp Design Database projects can be directly imported into OpenBuildings Energy Simulator (
see here
).
GBXML Import -
this can be achieved as shown
here
.
Analytical Space Model import -
existing BIM models can be imported into OpenBuildings Energy Simulator via the Analytical Space Model function (
info here),
located within OpenBuildings Designer:
OpenBuildings Energy Simulator
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Created by
Shane Regan
When:
Thu, Feb 13 2020 5:22 AM
Last revision by
Steve Cocchi
When:
Mon, Dec 19 2022 11:13 AM
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