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Re: [TRNSYS-users] Soil Noding Problem - Multizone Slab model



Dear Emmanouil Malliotakis,

Please make sure that you multizone slabs are only drawn on the z=0 plane (the plane of the origin). It appears from your TRNSYS3D file as it is not on that plane. You can also simply select all of your zones and use the move tool in SketchUp to move the building up to the origin. Also, make sure that when you use the Multizone Slab plugin that you make it in SketchUp and not TRNSYS3D.

Best regards,

Matt Duffy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Manos Malliotakis" <manosdavinci@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 4:36
Subject: [TRNSYS-users] Soil Noding Problem - Multizone Slab model

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Dear TRNSYS users,

 
i use TRNSYS 17 to simulate a single family house. We recently upgraded from version 16 to 17 and one of the new feaures is the Multizone Slab model. 

 
I used Google Sketchup and created the geometry of the House. It consists of 6 thermal zones on the Ground Floor. I designed these 6 zones and gave them a height of 3 meters. I selected all zones till i see 6 blue boxes around them.

 
Then i run the TESS Slab Noding Plugin from Google Sketchup. I answer all the questions. Then i get a message , if i want the name and the area printed on my google sketchup model. I answer yes but nothing gets printed on my model.

 
After that 2 files are created. 

 
soil_noding_XYDistances.txt and soil_noding_Soil Noding File.dat

 
The first is empty and the second has only the first 4 lines. Not the "map of nodes" i saw in the example file.

 
I use the latest TRSNYS version and TRNSYS_SlabNodingProgram_v3.rb plugin.

 
In the attachement you can find the *.idf file and the soil noding files.

 
Thanks in advance
Emmanouil Malliotakis

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