The user can manually create components using the component modeller application. The traditional ModelIt drawing tools, also available in component modeller, can be used to create the component geometry.
Defining a Windcatcher
In component library, right click the component and choose “properties”. The category should be set to ‘Space’ and the Component Type should be set to ‘Wind Catcher’.
Defining ducts
Select the room of the component; right click and select properties. Set the component room type to be ‘Duct’.
Note: Windcatchers must have defined “duct” zones as it is these zones that are “trimmed”. For now, we assume that Windcatchers should contain 4 duct zones (this can also be 4 connected duct zones i.e. 1 duct zone containing 4 constituent duct zones).
