Thursday, August 8, 2013

Just got this fancy error display after attempting to Enable Energy Model.

"The zone does not have a mass floor as its bottom and will be classified as unconditioned space.  If this was not your intent, either join the form in the mass family to another form that has a mass floor, or add a mass floor to the mass instance touching the bottom of the form."

Any suggestions?

Monday, August 5, 2013

Probe 5, Part 1

Ok.
Probe 5 brought up a few issues that I think are worth noting.
First, there always seems to be a debate when trying to decide what tool to design with. At this point (and it may be due to a lack of skill with the Revit tool) I prefer to draw up some ideas by paper and then move to the digital.
Massing has proven to be a slightly double-edged sword, where it becomes difficult to transition between the project and the "family creation" mode. I find also that though I can think conceptually with massing, I immediately focus on details in the project window.
Illustration issues also came up. I had a hard time using the coloring tools, though thankfully my classmates were able to assist.
I also seem to still have some problems with the schedule an the equations we had to use to calculate efficiency.