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I'm not aware of a measure that does this, but the one you pointed to that changes window construction by orientation would be a good one to copy and modify.

If you are not up for writing a measure I can think of one other approach. The OpenStudio SketchUp Plugin has a surface search tool (looks like filter) that lets you search for surfaces based on orientation, you define a range of degrees to include. Then you could use an existing user script that changes the selected surfaces to adiabatic and also hard assigns a construction to those surfaces. If you comment out the line of code in that user script that changes the boundary condition, this will do just want you want. If you don't want to alter the script, you can open the model in the OpenStudio application after running the script and saving the model. Then you can use the multi-select feature of grid view on the "Surfaces" sub tab of the "Space" tab to change the boundary condition back to "Outdoors".

If you want to alter the user script change line 52 from

surface.setOutsideBoundaryCondition("Adiabatic")

to

#surface.setOutsideBoundaryCondition("Adiabatic")