Menu & Building Element Data

Menu items in ApLocate provide the following options:

 

Save: Saves the design weather data as a *.wea file

Exit: Exits ApLocate

 

Graph: Launches the design day graphs dialog

SunPath: Launches SunPath (see section 6)

Remove from custom database: Option to remove any pre-saved custom databases

 

Contents: Launches the Help menu

About: Program description and information about IES

 

 - Save:  Saves the design weather data as a *.wea file

 - Print: Prints a synopsis of the design weather data

 - Graph:  Launches the design day graphs dialog

 - SunPath: Launches SunPath

 - Exit: Exits ApLocate

 - Help: Launches the Help menu

 

 

A building element (often shortened to element) is a component of the building such as a wall, ceiling, floor or window. For convenience, building elements are divided into categories such as ‘External wall’, ‘Internal glazing’, etc. Where a space surface has multiple adjacencies, each adjacency is treated as a separate building element.

 

Two kinds of data need to be set for building elements in the Apache view: construction data describing the element’s thermal properties, and adjacency data describing its thermal boundary conditions. Construction data needs to be set for all elements. Adjacency data is set automatically as a function of building geometry, and need only be edited in special circumstances.