Skylight set as "Not Operable" appears as operable after AFN component

[chris]

Sorry for the late response, @Juanfra .

@Juanfra

Would this be a valid workaround to simulate operable roof elements in the courtyard? Or is there a better way to model this condition?

Yea, that is what I personally do when I am trying to model these types of cases. A lot of the time, I change the operable skylight to something like this since it’s actually truer to how a lot of these skylights get designed for rain protection:

But your strategy with the sloped triangular prisms also works.

@Juanfra

At the moment, I’ve modeled the courtyard (a box) and the skylight (a triangular prism) as separate Breps—i.e., independent rooms—with air boundaries between them using Solve Adjacencies. Is this a valid approach, or would it be better to model everything as a single Brep using a Boolean union of the box and the prism?

I think that you’ll probably find that the differences between splitting with air boundaries or not does not significantly affect the results. The AirBoundaries are basically modeled as huge holes in the wall for the purposes of the AFN. I would say that you don’t really need them but I don’t think that you’re doing a whole lot of harm by having them there.