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Hello,

I am beginner E+ user and I would appreciate some help here.

I modeled a 2 story house using designbuilder and transfered the file to energy plus. Looking at the E+ file exported from desingbuilder, I can see that the program automatically named and all my surfaces into 138 different surfaces at "BuildingSurface:Detailed" Here, every surface is divided into SunExposed, WindExposed and their X,Y and Z location.

The problem I am having now is when creating a AFN, I need to connect each external surface with external nodes and I have no idea if, for example, my "FirstFloor:Bedroom4_Wall_2_0_0" and "FirstFloor:Bedroom4_Wall_3_0_0" are connected, in this order, to the external South and East node, or if it is in opposite order.

There is any way to know the location of surfaces or how E+ name the surfaces from DesignBuilder?

Is the easiest way to do this really looking at the X,Y and Z location of each surface and then, figure out one by one where they are located?

Thank you for the help!

Hello,

I am beginner E+ user and I would appreciate some help here.

I modeled a 2 story house using designbuilder and transfered the file to energy plus. Looking at the E+ file exported from desingbuilder, I can see that the program automatically named and all my surfaces into 138 different surfaces at "BuildingSurface:Detailed" Here, every surface is divided into SunExposed, WindExposed and their X,Y and Z location.

The problem I am having now is when creating a AFN, I need to connect each external surface with external nodes and I have no idea if, for example, my "FirstFloor:Bedroom4_Wall_2_0_0" and "FirstFloor:Bedroom4_Wall_3_0_0" are connected, in this order, to the external South and East node, or if it is in opposite order.

There is any way to know the location of surfaces or how E+ name the surfaces from DesignBuilder?

Is the easiest way to do this really looking at the X,Y and Z location of each surface and then, figure out one by one where they are located?

Thank you for the help!

Hello,

I am beginner E+ user and I would appreciate some help here.

I modeled a 2 story house using designbuilder and transfered the file to energy plus. Looking at the E+ file exported from desingbuilder, I can see that the program automatically named and all my surfaces into 138 different surfaces at "BuildingSurface:Detailed" Here, every surface is divided into SunExposed, WindExposed and their X,Y and Z location.

The problem I am having now is when creating a AFN, I need to connect each external surface with external nodes and I have no idea if, for example, my "FirstFloor:Bedroom4_Wall_2_0_0" and "FirstFloor:Bedroom4_Wall_3_0_0" are connected, in this order, to the external South and East node, or if it is in opposite order.

There is any way to know the location of surfaces or how E+ name the surfaces from DesignBuilder?

Is the easiest way to do this really looking at the X,Y and Z location of each surface and then, figure out one by one where they are located?

Thank you for the help!