Add Voids and/or Stratify
Add voids and/or stratify
Menu item: “Selection” Þ “Add voids and/or stratify”
The Plenum/Void creator and space splitter tool is a facility for splitting a selected space along horizontal planes to create voids or plenums at ceiling or floor level and/or to subdivide the space for the purpose of modelling thermal stratification.
Note: the image is illustrative only does not represent the dimensions of the actual spaces.
Options
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Section
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Field
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Description
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Ceiling
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Space sub-type
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The space sub-type of the ceiling space. Options: None, Void, Return Air Plenum
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Height
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The height of the ceiling space.
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Label
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A text string to be appended in brackets to the subject room name to create the name of the new space.
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Stratification
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Occupied zone height
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The height of the occupied zone after space subdivision (non-editable; assigned automatically by subtraction).
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Splitspace vertically for modelling thermal stratification
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Tick this box to subdivide the main space into sub-spaces at different levels.
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Number of stratified zones above the occupied zone
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The number of spaces to be created above the occupied zone.
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Combined height of stratified zones
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The combined height of the spaces created above the occupied zone.
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Minimum occupied zone height after stratification
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A lower constraint on the height of the occupied zone after space subdivision.
Non-editable. Fixed at 1m = 3.28’.
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Floor
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Space sub-type
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The space sub-type of the floor space. Options: None, Void, Supply Air Plenum
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Height
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The height of the floor space.
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Label
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A text string to be appended in brackets to the subject room name when creating the name of the new space.
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