[esp-r] Re: Shading a multistory building

[Jon Hand]

Shading is assessed on a zone by zone basis. The suggestion to use a text editor and copy
and paste into the other zone geometry files is a technique that many users use.  Might
be worth thinking about how 'global site obstructions' could be implemented or to allow
obstructions to be copied from one zone to another in the interface.

-Jon Hand 
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] on behalf of Dimitris "Jim" Sfakianakis [dsfakianakis at gmail.com]
Sent: 09 March 2017 17:18
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  Shading a multistory building

Hi all,

I am modeling a 5 story building and want to model the shading from an adjacent building. Following the cookbook closely, I noticed that in order to do that, I have to select a specific thermal zone, define solar obstructions and then calculate shading and insolation for that zone.

Since in my case the same obstruction is tall enough to shade more than one zone (ground, 1st and 2nd floor), is there a way to "reuse" the obstruction associated with one zone or do I have to create new ones for every vertical zone?

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Dimitris