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Chris

Sorry for the delay to answer this topic.

If I understand your question, I think you can model this situation using calculated ventilation and compact HVAC model options.

The double fa ...

I’m afraid you can Smile

. It is possible to merge zones and blocks drawing holes and activating the model option Merge zones connected by holes (Model options > Advanced). Also you can use the model o ...

Hi Teresa,

It is difficult to know what is happening, but you can delete auto generated vents going to surface level (in the corresponding surface) and deselecting "Auto generate" check box.

Re ...

James,

Just to add to Laurent commentary:

If you do need different local shadings (including windows without shading) in the same wall, there are at least to ways to achieve it:

1. Drawing co ...

Hi Teresa,

I’m afraid it is not currently possible (as far as remember) to obtain summarized loss/gains values. However, you can generate it easily. Just ask the software to show data in daily inte ...

Dear Teresa,

We have not updated downloadable DB version in Sol-arq because we have some troubles with our current site and are preparing a totally revamped one. However, software translation has b ...

Thomas,

You can do that by deactivating ‘Use slider controls’, in Program options > Interface > Interface style. Then you will be able to input the values manually.

Arturo

Hi Antonio, welcome to DesignBuilder.

Even with adiabatic surfaces, DesignBuilder takes into account for heat flows due to thermal mass. It is the reason you see heat gains related with those surfa ...

Hi Francois,

If you have a complete hourly data set for a site you could try with EnergyPlus Translator, as Andy wrote in a similar previous topic:

“If you plan to do serious weather file transl ...

DB draws automatically holes into walls precisely to insert interblock partitions. But in fact, there is just an inter block partition construction between two adjacent blocks. If you change the const ...

Hi Leone,

I think ‘Radiant heating’ is equivalent to the ‘Zone heating’ concept you can find in DB help, just that it expresses precisely that is radiant heat. As far as I know, to model local heat ...

Hi Bernd, welcome to DesignBuilder!

It seems we all are very busy right now Smile

. Well, here is my modest attempt:

1. I have not much experience in this field, but... you can find detailed inform ...

Hi Carlos,

Some points:

First of all, you are modeling each house as a block into a 'building'. I don't know if it is your intention, but is very advisable to model each house as an independent ...

Hi Margherita

I drew on surfaces, for every zone, all the windows with right dimensions of the projects, but sometimes it happens that some windows change dimensions.

It is very curious, I had n ...

Hi, Margherita, welcome to DesignBuilder!

Current versions of DesignBuilder only allow editing openings at surface level, so all openings into a surface will share the same parameters. There are so ...

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