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Thomas, First, whether you are dealing with an EXTERNAL or an ADJACENT window that has no opaque component, treat it as though it did; draw the wall in SketchUp and then make a window in it that takes up almost the entire area of the wall (I usually make set my windows in so that there is about a 10cm border of actual wall around their perimeter). The engine on which Trnsys3D is built has trouble sometimes if the edge of a window is coincident with the edge of a wall. Second, I managed to create an ADJACENT window between two zones. Here are the steps I followed: 1. draw the first zone with a window in one of its walls. Name it "ZONE1" 2. draw the second zone with a window in the wall that is adjacent to the first zone. Make SURE that the verticies of the two windows that you drew are exactly the same. Name it "ZONE2" 3. hide "ZONE2." Select the ADJACENT wall in the first zone, open its "object info" window and set it's construction to ADJ_WALL, its outside boundary condition to "zone" and its outside boundary object to ZONE2. 4. select the window in that wall, open its "object info" window and set its construction to ADJ_WINDOW and its shading device to ESHADE=0. 5. unhide ZONE2. hide ZONE1 6. follow steps 3 and 4 for this zone (obviously set the outside boundary object to ZONE1). 7. unhide ZONE1 and save the *.idf file. 8. open TRNBuild and import the idf file. I got an error saying that it was not able to find the ADJACENT windows but when I checked them in TRNBuild's zone windows, they were fine. I was able to close and reopen the *.b17 file without error. Kind regards, David On 2/1/2013 07:49, Thomas Lichtenheld
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