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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2012
Lillian M. Smith, Cambridge, MA (US);
John F. Kennedy, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Markus Bonn, Columbus, OH (US);
Aryn Bergman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian Molloy, Waltham, MA (US);
R. David Scheer, Iii, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jing Lan, Shanghai, CN;
Lillian M. Smith, Cambridge, MA (US);
John F. Kennedy, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Markus Bonn, Columbus, OH (US);
Aryn Bergman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian Molloy, Waltham, MA (US);
R. David Scheer, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jing Lan, Shanghai, CN;
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage medium, for generating thermal zones. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a perimeter zone for a first portion of a conceptual representation of a building; and dividing the perimeter zone into a plurality of thermal zones, comprising: determining a plurality of first candidate thermal zones based at least in part on a maximum thermal zone angle threshold that each of the first candidate thermal zones satisfy, determining a plurality of second candidate thermal zones based at least in part on a maximum thermal zone length threshold that each of the second candidate thermal zones satisfy, and selecting a plurality of thermal zones from the first candidate thermal zones and the second candidate thermal zones.