How detailed should I make my geometry?
I'm modeling a school building in sketchup to simulate in OpenStudio/Energyplus.
Is it feasible to model:
- Every room?
- A group of rooms?
- just one or two big zones in the story?
- Certain type of rooms?
Here are two of the floorplans of the building: https://imgur.com/a/U9t1OXv
I suggest you go over the geometry of the Primary School and Secondary SchoolPrototype models (IDFs). Useful to compare against. Otherwise, it really depends on what you're seeking (e.g. monthly GJ use vs daylighting/thermal comfort assessments). Hope this helps.
Hi Denis, thanks for the reply. I've looked at the examples and I saw that I have like twice the amount of spaces purely because the functions of my building aren't neatly ordered (no classrooms straight in a row). But for the rest its almost the same method, I did it a bit more detailed with more type of rooms. The goal of my model is daily energy use and making different configurations of the building to compare with.