Can not identify room

[Stephanie]

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie to this plugin and probably the problem I am facing is rather simple, but I can not find any answers in the tutorials or the internet and as I am writting my thesis I really would appreciate your help as soon as possible as my deadline is coming!

I have a one room model that has a rather complicated facade as it is made out of translucent and opaque panels attached to each other. First when I tried to identify the room it found 339 rooms where none of them was the actual room, they all were parts of the facade. The question is how can I make the model identify the facade in a way that it is part of the room so it will identify it? I tried groupping the elements but I am probably doing it in a wrong way. And when I click to find the disconnected surfaces it looks like the whole room seems to be disconnected although there is the facade.

Please help!!!

Thank you!!!

[PCully]

It sounds like you might be modelling the facade with a thickness so the plug-in is seeing it as separate rooms rather than as a wall of a room?

Have you seen the modelling White Paper http://www.iesve.com/support/knowledgebase/faq/3050

or if you look on the Warehouse there are some sample models to show how you should be modelling in SketchUp for the plug-in to correctly identify rooms. Go to the SketchUp Warehouse and search for IESVE to see these.

Phil