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What I do here is have a seperate DHW Apache system dedicated to DHW only. None of my other systems define the DHW. Then heating source is an ASHP of the required sCoP and add a bivalent electric heater. Portioned appropriately. In your instance elec 20% (ish). That will then account for the uplift ...

Mixed mode buildings can benefit greatly linking macroflo and show reduced cooling energies from my experience. But I tend to implement that only with controlled openings, as theres no guarantee occupants will open windows or indeed close them when infiltration is warmer than the internal temp.

Model the showers and lockers and any circulation areas seperately. The DHW is as you stated on sq.m of total floor area, so break a general changing room space down into its componant parts. Ie the changing area with lockers, the circulation area and the showers. Then apply the changing room only ...

Ive not found any other way myself other than an area weighted.

Anyone got tips on how to deal with a multitude of roof lights on a sloped and hipped roof? Drives me nuts this. dxf's come in the wrong way round, which I understand because your looking at the roof from within. But now when I do it theyre also out by 90° to the roof element. Please IES, just allow ...

Thanks for that JL. That has helped me out.

I notice it a lot when panning with mouse, ie using wheel pressed to hold and pan, and when zooming into areas. Fortunately if you save often, you will not lose much. Using the bottom scroll bar helps but that too has caused some crashes.

Thats the thing Terence, there is no recipe for disaster. I can be drawing rooms, one after the other and then all modelit graphics disappear leaving a blank workscreen (all other parts of ies still visible, ie menus etc) and a dialogue box pops up that states 'Resource Not Available'. Or I could be ...

I'll add 2017.3.0.0 to that list too. 'resource not available' then pow gone. This version is so unstable I have to manually save every 5mins. Autosave is irrelevant unless you close the place windows dialogue. If you do not all work whilst 'place window' dialogue is open is lost. Forever.

DXF has ...

Dancing grips, snaps that jump and a crashy habit. This iteration sucks. C'mon IES, spend some of that enormous subscription fee on fixing your software please. Thanks.

Oh and while your at it, make sure it writes a temp file to backup too. Or at least one thats more recent than 2 hrs ago. Yes I ...