Welcome to the TRNSYS Users Forum.
The forum is a place where people can interact and have discussions about different topics involving the use of the TRNSYS software package. Here you can post topics for discussion or questions on using TRNSYS and get advice from other users or TRNSYS experts. This forum is not intended for detailed technical support. Users should contact their distributor’s hotline for such assistance.
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Every time I try to draw a door on a surface in my SketchUp project, TRNSYS3D creates a window. How do I draw a door instead?
You have to use a bit of trickery to get TRNSYS3D to accept a door (or any rectangular, non-transparent surface within a surface):
- Draw the door where you wish. TRNSYS3D will create a window, this is fine for now.
- Select the new window-door and delete it. You should now have an empty space where the window-door used to be.
- Draw a diagonal line from one corner of the space to the opposite corner. TRNSYS3D will split the space into two triangular surfaces.
- Delete the diagonal line. You now have a door!
- (Optional) Draw a vertical line from the midpoint of the door to the top of the wall. Sometimes TRNSYS gets confused calculating surface areas around doors, and the vertical line splits the wall into two surfaces that TRNSYS is much more likely to calculate correctly.
There is also a YouTube video you can follow that covers this topic: https://youtu.be/8Drr5Y7rlYQ
Hope this helps!
~Angie
