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file icon Basic Model Data Tutorials
20.05.2011
The Basic Geometry Tutorials can be viewed most conveniently online on our webpage,  however if you would like to view them at your leisure offline the tutorials can all be downloaded here. For instructions on how to view the tutorials once they are downloaded see readme.txt contained within the zip file.
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file icon Basic Geometry Tutorials
05.11.2010
The Basic Geometry Tutorials can be viewed most conveniently online on our webpage,  however if you would like to view them at your leisure offline the tutorials can all be downloaded here. For instructions on how to view the tutorials once they are downloaded see readme.txt contained within the zip file.
Hits: 15366
file icon Getting Started Tutorial 1 - The Basics of Creating a Building Model
17.03.2006

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A ZIP file containing the Flash tutorial and control files. Download, unzip and run the html file to view the tutorial with control bar. Running time 19 minutes.

  • Learn how to use DesignBuilder block drawing tools to model a simple office building and partition it into zones.
  • Explains the screen layout and important concepts for drawing 3-D building models in DesignBuilder.
  • Steps through the creation of a simple building and shows how to set model data at the building, block and zone level.

Note that you can also view these tutorials online.

 

Hits: 7521
file icon Getting Started Tutorial 2 - Design Calculations and Simulations
17.03.2006

A ZIP file containing the Flash tutorial and control files. Download, unzip and run the html file to view the tutorial with control bar. Running time 19 minutes.

  • Shows you how to run winter and summer design calculations and simulations on the building model from Tutorial 1.
  • Explains calculation of heating and cooling equipment sizes.
  • Shows how to modify building data to reduce overheating in some zones of the model.
  • Shows simulations using real weather data and calculation of annual energy use for the building.
Hits: 6110
file icon DesignBuilder Product Demo
15.03.2006
A ZIP file containing the Flash tutorial and control files. Download, unzip and run the html file to view the tutorial with control bar. Running time 4 minutes.
Hits: 3867