Changing window to wall ratio in Sketchup and PAT
I am trying to change the WWR of the medium office prototype building of DOE (to 0.2 and 0.4) In PAT the analysis failed. I tried to see how it changes if I do it manually in sketchup but my model gets distorted. Any help/ though how can I change the WWR in prototype buildings?
Thank you @ David Goldwasser getting back to this issue, I just realized if the model get distorted by changing WWR in Sketchup that means the same thing happens behind the scenes in PAT and OpenStudio! Is there any way that I could change WWR in prototype buildings without ruining the model? C:\fakepath\Midium Office building- DOE model.PNG
You can change WWR through a measure in PAT, through a user script in the SketchUp Plugin or manually in the SketchUp Plugin. You didn't say why your PAT analysis failed, it could be unrelated to this change. I would recommend the user script in the SketchUp plugin vs. manually altering geometry if you are not familiar with using it.
Thank you for reply. When I am working with PAT the first arror I recive while adding the measures is "Measure added to project but unable to compute arguments".
I am adding this note here for reffernce @David Goldwasser for your information after talking to prof Reichard from Virginia Tech and discusing my results, reviewing model in Sketchup, I realised that the results that I got from PAT are wrong. In another world., as you also know, if changing WWR in Sketup distorts the model, same happens in PAT. However, in PAT we do not see the distorted model and just see the values.
@Houri, I thought this worked for you in March? Did something change? Maybe it is unique to specific model. Maybe post new question and include some screenshots and the measure log.
It worked in PAT, I ran the analysis and had my data. However, seems like behind the scene the model still was distorted and I had fake/wrong data. I attached three snip here from SketchUp one is the base model from DOE, one is the user input box to change WWR and the other is the distorted model after applying the manual WWR input.