Conversely, everything I've read stresses filling the complete building volume with spaces. I'd prefer to use the architect's model, but I often find spaces placed in small spots that really have no business hosting a space. Is that the only way? How have you handled this?Īnother big issue I see is managing spaces in a way that will transfer data to the gbXML. We don't do the electrical design and it seems like these sorts of values have to be changed from the default space type settings every time, which means going through dialog boxes, not just the properties palette. Another thing he'd like to push is lighting and power loads.
#Ies ve material update#
However, I worry about reconstructing what the architect has specified, and not having an easy way to update it when changes are made. Has anyone taken advantage of this functionality? Did it work well? How did you manage the data within Revit? I don't trust that the material properties that the architect uses are correct. I know it is possible, but I have a tenuous-at-best foundation with that sort of thing. My boss, who is very enamored with the "I" in BIM, would really like to push detailed thermal properties information with the model. I have read up on Autodesk and IES's documentation for energy modeling, but I haven't has much success in getting as clean of results as they describe. The purpose of the energy model is really to show compliance with certain energy targets, not to inform decisions about the building itself, only the systems. We get the building after the architects have done most of their design. A little background: we are not architects, we are a strictly HVAC firm. I won't really need to touch the actual energy modelling side of it, but I'd really appreciate any tips, resources, or experiences other have with preparing and moving an analytical model from Revit to the Virtual Environment. My company just recently purchased IES VE for load calculations and energy modelling.