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2024-05-17 13:10:57 -0500 answered a question Building was Built in the 70s What would I use for Design OA and Infiltration

If you are looking for the efficiency level and air flow rates that make sense for a building that age you might want to

2024-05-13 11:35:58 -0500 commented answer Defining an Always-Open Entrance Exposed to Outdoor Conditions

Sorry, I'm very confused by your response.You show a zone called "loading zone" that runs through the entire building. I

2024-05-13 10:24:13 -0500 commented answer Defining an Always-Open Entrance Exposed to Outdoor Conditions

Is the entire loading zone exposed to outside conditions?

2024-05-13 08:33:00 -0500 commented answer Defining an Always-Open Entrance Exposed to Outdoor Conditions

I think you are making this more complicated than necessary. Just don't include this portion within the building envelop

2024-05-07 08:39:09 -0500 edited answer What is meant by End Uses Fans in EPLUS outputs

In the OutputDetailsAndExamples.pdf, under the section on eplustbl.<ext>, the Annual Building Performance Summary

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2024-05-07 07:23:57 -0500 answered a question What is meant by End Uses Fans in EPLUS outputs

In the OutputDetailsAndExamples.pdf, under the section on eplustbl.<ext>, the Annual Building Performance Summary

2024-04-30 08:23:13 -0500 edited answer Defining an Always-Open Entrance Exposed to Outdoor Conditions

I would treat it as outdoors and include the surfaces on the sides, back, and top of the entrance as part of the envelop

2024-04-30 08:20:10 -0500 commented answer Defining an Always-Open Entrance Exposed to Outdoor Conditions

Forget the idea that the "entrance" is an interior room of the building and instead define the building perimeter to go

2024-04-29 10:43:07 -0500 answered a question Defining an Always-Open Entrance Exposed to Outdoor Conditions

I would treat it as outdoors and include the surfaces on the sides, back, and top of the entrance as part of the envelop

2024-04-25 15:37:14 -0500 commented answer Question about Building an Unofficial Version of EnergyPlus

With the CMake you need to keep checking the appropriate rows and pressing "configure" until no more red rows are shown

2024-04-24 13:51:57 -0500 edited answer Question about Building an Unofficial Version of EnergyPlus

Following the instructions on the wiki page allows you to build the entire package, but you could also substitute pieces

2024-04-24 13:50:41 -0500 commented answer Question about Building an Unofficial Version of EnergyPlus

See my updated response.

2024-04-24 13:50:11 -0500 edited answer Question about Building an Unofficial Version of EnergyPlus

Following the instructions on the wiki page allows you to build the entire package, but you could also substitute pieces

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2024-04-24 11:37:58 -0500 answered a question Question about Building an Unofficial Version of EnergyPlus

Following the instructions on the wiki page allows you to build the entire package, but you could also substitute pieces

2024-04-02 13:06:24 -0500 edited answer IDF Version Updater - TransitionV-x-x-to-V-x-x.exe files?

Yes, that site is no longer active. All the files you need are at: https://energyplushelp.freshdesk.com/support/solutio

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2024-04-02 12:59:46 -0500 answered a question IDF Version Updater - TransitionV-x-x-to-V-x-x.exe files?

Yes, that site is no longer active. All the files you need are at: https://energyplushelp.freshdesk.com/support/solutio

2024-03-05 08:06:19 -0500 answered a question Higher cooling demand in the west/east orientation- compared to south!

Buildings have many interactive effects, and sometimes the results of simulations do not match your intuition. When this

2023-12-18 09:51:41 -0500 commented question class list in IDF-Editor not complete

Is it possible you have checked "View..Show Classes with Objects Only"?

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2023-12-04 11:48:52 -0500 answered a question energyplus weather program no longer works

This is not an uncommon problem in general and probably isn't related to EnergyPlus weather program specifically but jus

2023-10-25 09:22:44 -0500 commented question Assembly U-factor, SHGC and VT are not calculated correctly

Sorry, I am remembering now how this works. The assembly is based on the standard size shown in the "NFRC product type f

2023-10-25 07:02:46 -0500 commented question Assembly U-factor, SHGC and VT are not calculated correctly

It is possible that the size of the windows is so large that the frame and divider impact is too small to see for the nu

2023-08-01 16:21:25 -0500 answered a question Breakdown of Sensible (delayed) for each wall or window.

Sorry, the individual component load for each surface is not reported by EnergyPlus. This might be possible to add but c

2023-07-04 14:21:46 -0500 answered a question Is There a Way to Speedacceleratings Simulations?

You also may want to take a look at the PerformancePrecisionTradeoffs object. The documentation for it is here https:/

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2023-05-04 15:51:10 -0500 commented answer Any way to open idf file without getting Out of memory error?

I agree, we should probably make a more general comment in that dialog box about reducing memory usage. @keigo can you s

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2023-04-25 16:06:44 -0500 answered a question How update multiple IDF files with Version Updater - Version 0.16?

If you make a file containing the list of the files you want translated, one per line, with the full path and extension

2023-04-24 08:08:05 -0500 answered a question Is there were a way to build a one line diagram for the plant loop and then export it to EnergyPlus?

HVACDiagram that comes with EnergyPlus will help you visualize the IDF model that you have already created. It is not ex

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2023-03-30 08:51:44 -0500 commented question Why can the interpolated Timestep demand be greater than the Hourly demand?

The file you are running has 15 minute timesteps so it is completely feasible that the peak would be at a some point oth

2023-03-29 06:38:46 -0500 commented question Bug in HVACTemplate:Zone:FanCoil

You might want to also describe this here so that the EnergyPlus development team can try to fix it.

2023-03-16 09:28:01 -0500 answered a question Energy plus/open studio where to start?

Two documents are really aimed at helping new users of EnergyPlus: https://energyplus.net/quick-start EnergyPlus Essen

2023-02-24 07:21:58 -0500 commented answer The Zone is not fully enclosed

You probably don't want to "autocalculate" the zone volume for that zone and instead put in the value that it should be.

2023-02-23 14:12:23 -0500 answered a question The Zone is not fully enclosed

Thanks for sharing your models. For M1, when viewing in Euclid an entire SouthGroundwallBasement wall appears to be mi

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2023-02-23 06:29:20 -0500 commented question IDF editor is not opening and its icon remains in the taskbar

Have you looked at this answer or this one or maybe this to a similar question

2023-02-22 15:35:45 -0500 commented question The Zone is not fully enclosed

These are tricky issues to try to resolve. If you are confident in the geometry, you can ignore it since it is just a wa

2023-02-16 16:14:30 -0500 commented answer Orientation in Corrie

To expand on that a bit related to the aspect ratio, the "width" of the building is always along the "face" of the build

2023-02-16 15:58:16 -0500 commented answer Orientation in Corrie

Because different aspect ratios is one of the measures you can explore, so N and S are the same, E and W are the same, N

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2023-02-16 15:45:22 -0500 answered a question Orientation in Corrie

The "Front Faces" just indicates which direction the front of the building is pointing (roughly) in order to orient the

2023-01-31 06:52:01 -0500 commented question Increasing Maximum Plant Iterations reduces Run Time

When we examined the impact of various inputs when creating the PerformancePrecisionTradeoffs input object, we sometime

2023-01-26 10:32:41 -0500 commented question All version of IDF files(from 9.1 to 22.2) are not opened

Hmm. I don't see anything wrong with that. Can you open IDF Editor directly by double clicking on: "C:\EnergyPlusV22-2-

2023-01-25 10:09:15 -0500 commented question All version of IDF files(from 9.1 to 22.2) are not opened

Ok, you might want to try uninstalling and reinstalling EnergyPlus. If that doesn't work look in the installationlog.txt

2023-01-24 16:10:53 -0500 commented question All version of IDF files(from 9.1 to 22.2) are not opened

Did IDF Editor work previously and then stop or has it never worked? If it never worked, please describe exactly the dir

2023-01-19 09:32:36 -0500 commented question All version of IDF files(from 9.1 to 22.2) are not opened

What error message do you get from IDF Editor?