Hi guys,
I got a question as shown in the pic attahced.
Basically I wanted to assign a glass material to interior wall like in an office corridor. But there was an error saying: “1. Solution exception:Expected OpaqueConstruction for interior_wall. Got <class ‘honeybee_energy.construction.window.WindowConstruction’>”
I understand the quote means the interior wall should be all opaque? So is there any way we could bulding a transparent wall - glass wall in interior wall?
Thank you so much!
Best,
Lei
Hi @TrilithStone, you cant make transparent walls, a work around is make an aperture that is juuuust a hair smaller than the desired interior or exterior wall and do it that way.
best
-trevor
Hi,
Energyplus differentiates between opaque walls and transparent fenestration. Both in terms of materials and geometry, where fenestration must be contained in a basic opaque wall (this is because EP only wants the size of the glass and not the entire window with the frame).
So you must first create a fenestration then assign it to its base surface and finally use it as a glass material only by connecting it to interior_window.
I hope I have explained myself. Sorry for the bad English…
See you soon
Massimiliano
