Double height exterior wall now reading as interior after doing some adjacency cleanup

[kevinhertig1 (Kevin Hertig)]

After fixing some adjacencies and cleaning up my model, this double height space which originally showed as exterior wall is now reading as interior wall all the way up. I’m not sure whether or not this is an issue since when importing the geometry to IES it should be able to identify this wall as an exterior exposure and adjust accordingly? Also not sure if there is a quick fix within model editor

[mostapha]

Hi @kevinhertig1,

This will not be a problem in IESVE. IESVE recalculates the boundary condition for each face once you import the GEM file.

See here for an explanation about why you see the top part showing as an interior wall, and the possible solutions to address it.

Export TraceXML issues

Hey @mostapha and @josiahfce , Sorry for the delayed response. I should first note that the wall boundary conditions for the case in your screenshot are resolved during the simplification that we do to the geometry for TRACE to accept it. So your model is perfectly fine as-is in TRACE even though it doesn’t look right in the 3D viewer. You can prove this to yourself you opening up your TRACEXML in the Spider gbXML viewer and you’ll see how the geometry becomes simplified to flat-topped extrusio…