The Zone Group facility provides a means of defining commonly occurring groups of zones as an aid to rapid zone selection when editing input data or viewing output.
On the Tree View, click on the '+' symbol to the left of "Simulation Data", and then click on the Zone Groups folder to show a summary table on the right of the screen. The Zone Groups folder will contain group types from the TBD, including HVAC groups, Output Groups, Zone Groups, and Zone Sets, as well as any other groups which you've added in the Results Viewer.
The Zone Groups table on the right of the screen has the following information:
Name
The name given by the user for the zone group, the name can have alphanumeric characters and spaces.
Description
This is for detailed information about the zone group.
Read on to find out how to do perform the following operations:
Sort the table
Left clicking on the column header will sort the table alphabetically by parameter. Left clicking on the column header again will reverse the order.
Change the width of a column in the table
To manually change the width of a column, left click and hold the left mouse button down while the cursor is positioned over the line that divides the selected column header and the column header to the right of it, move the cursor to the left or right, and then release the mouse button.
To alter the width of the column to automatically accommodate all of the characters for the zone group with the longest name, double left click on the line that divides the selected column header and the column to the right of it.
Create a new Zone Group
To create a new zone group, right click on the 'Zone Groups' folder, and then click 'Zone Groups' on the context menu. To change the name of a zone group, left click on its icon and then left click again, type in a new name, and then press <Return>.
Add a single zone to a Zone Group
To assign a single zone to a zone group, left click on the '+' by the 'Zones Groups' folder to show all the zone groups, and then left click on the '+' by the 'Zones' folder to show all the zones. Point the mouse cursor to the appropriate zone icon in the Tree View, hold down the left mouse button, drag the zone onto the appropriate zones table within the zone group, and then release the left mouse button.
Add multiple zones to a Zone Group
To assign multiple zones to a zone group, left click on the '+' by the 'Zone Groups' folder to show all the zone groups, and then left click on the 'Zones' folder to show the 'Zones' table. Left click on a zone name in the table to select it. You can select multiple zones by holding down the <Ctrl> button while left clicking on them. You can select a range of zones by left clicking on the first one in the range, holding down the <Shift> button, and then clicking on the last zone. All of the zones between the first and last zone will also be selected. Once they are selected, point the mouse cursor over one of the zone names, hold down the left mouse button, move the cursor to the relevant zone group in the Tree View, and then release the mouse button.
Delete a Zone Group that you have created in the Results Viewer
To delete a zone group, left click on its row in the 'Zone Groups' table, and then press the <Delete> key on your keyboard. Alternatively, left click on the zone group's icon in the Tree View, and then press the <Delete> key.
Show the individual Zone Group screen
Double clicking on a zone group in the table will show the individual 'Zone Groups' page on the right of the screen.
Apply a Zone Group to an Output Selection
To apply a Zone Group to an Output Selection, point the mouse cursor over the relevant row in the 'Zone Groups' table, hold down the left mouse button, move the cursor to the Output Selection icon in the Tree View, and then release the mouse button.
Alternatively, point the mouse cursor to the 'Zone Groups' icon in the Tree View, hold down the left mouse button, move the cursor to the 'Output Selection' icon, and then release the mouse button.