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Checklist: Best practice

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Checklist: Best practice

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- So you could have a best practice checklist, and the main thing I would stress was to always use the building mode that says Conceptual Masses and Building Elements. Use the defaults for Analytical Space and Surface Resolution, and then tighten them up as you need in your model. That will make the analysis take a little bit longer, but it will yield more accurate results. You may or may not need an internal dividing wall, depending on the building, and you may need some subdivisions, but change that as you go. You're going to get the values based on the building type from ASHRAE standards. You can set other options. Rooms when we're not using, schematic types for material, you'll see used in the option. But the best practice there kind of really refers to IU using Masses or a combination of Masses with Building Elements or Building Elements, so on. So back to where the values are coming from, if you go underneath the advanced option, this is where you can specify overrides for those…

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