How to model a glass wall in Open Studio?
I am trying to model an atrium in Open Studio. Since it is not possible to set a window-to-wall ratio of 1 in Sketchup, I was told to specify the building material as glass in the Open Studio application. However, when I do this (in the Spaces --> Surfaces tab), the model fails because the Surface Type is still defined as a Wall. The only options I have for Surface Type are Floor, Wall, or RoofCeiling.
I have tried leaving the Construction Set for the surface in question as the default ExtWall, and specifying the material as glass. This fails; error being that glass is not an acceptable material for a Wall surface type. I have tried changing the Construction Set to ExtWindow, but this also fails as the surface type is still set to Wall.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Other things I have tried:
Creating a new Construction with a custom Material with properties of glass. However, this gives opposite thermal results to what I would expect when using the View Data measure (atrium is cooler than the rest of the building during the peak of summer).
Creating a new Construction with 'Theoretical Glass' as the material, picked from the list of default glazing window materials. This fails because I've used a non-wall material to define a wall.
So, you're just trying to assign a glass construction to a Surface and not a Subsurface? Inferring in this link it seems to me that a window lives in a subsurface. What you describe I believe is skipping the create a subsurface part. Don't draw the window to the bottom of the Surface or it will become a door instead. Do the "offset" from point 3 under Subsurface section described in link. Or post if Jamie's clever suggestion works. :)
Yup, this worked! Plus the link was very helpful just in general - thank you.
@amoose, I made a new post in response to your offline question about using wwr on rest of building but the atrium.