OpenStudio Spaces in Sketchup - Surface Matching
Open Studio: Having a problem with OpenStudio Spaces drawn in Sketchup.
I am putting together a two-story data center; see attached pictures. Corridor space surrounds various server rooms like a square donut with the servers as the filling on both floors. Note: the top floor also maintains a 3 ft plenum.
When I match surfaces and run the model, OpenStudio automatically fills the corridor "donut" for some reason, overlapping with the server rooms (see the 'exploded' pictures). Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
As a work around, I have split the rectangular donut with seams, and then joined them as one thermal space being run by the same AHU equipment. This seems to yield accurate enough results. Is this the correct approach if OpenStudio cannot handle donut or courtyard-like spaces?
Initial Data Center Assembly
Exploded Data Center Corridors BEFORE Surface Matching
Exploded Data Center Corridors AFTER Surface Matching
Work around = Split Rectangular Donut with Seams, Reassemble with Shared Thermal Zones, Surface Match, and then Run Model
@mcdonaa1 looking at the exploded pre-matched view, one confusing thins isn't so much the do donut shaped zones, it is that the roof, and I assume floor isn't split up. It shouldn't be possible to open up an OSM that looks like this since OSM files, like EnergyPlus don't have concept of inner loops for surfaces. If you drew a skylight, then deleted the skylight surface (but not edges) and then drew walls you might be able to construct something that looks like this, but if you saved, and re-opened it without surface matching, it wouldn't look like you expect.