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What do you need to know about surfaces in contact with the ground, when modeling in Open Studio?

Hello,

i am modeling a building in Sketchup using the OS plugin. I want to understand how to corectly model ground surfaces in OS, because you have more than one outside boundary condition option for ground surfaces. What is the difference if i use Ground or GroundFCfactorMethod as an outside boundary construction (or some other boundary condition for a ground surface)? Because it seems that in OS there is no difference, so what does happen in EP?

Tnx,

David

What do you need to know about surfaces in contact with the ground, when modeling in Open Studio?

Hello,

i am modeling a building in Sketchup using the OS plugin. I want to understand how to corectly model ground surfaces in OS, because you have more than one outside boundary condition option for ground surfaces. What is the difference if i use Ground or GroundFCfactorMethod as an outside boundary construction (or condition(or some other boundary condition for a ground surface)? Because it seems that in OS there is no difference, so what does happen happens in EP?

Tnx,

David

Addition to question: Which outside boundary conditions relating to ground surfaces that are listed in OS are functional (it seems that only Ground and FCfactor method are operable in OS)?