[Equest-users] help with macros?

[Robby Oylear]

Text editors are your friend.  If you need to change the people schedule
for 300 spaces then just do a find/replace in a text editor.  However to
really do anything remotely complicated like replacing all people
schedules (with different names per shell like eQUEST likes to create) you
need a text editor that can handle macros.   I use Boxer Text Editor and
it can do some pretty impressive stuff with the macro functions.

 

Robby Oylear, LEEDR AP

Mechanical Engineer

direct: 206.788.4571

cell: 206.354.2721

www. <http://www.rushingco.com/> rushingco.com

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James
Hansen
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 5:48 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Cc: Grando, John
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] help with macros?

 

Just an update since the responses I received were only to me:

 

Apparently eQuest can't really handle macros - that was a DOE2 function
that wasn't incorporated into eQuest, even though it shows up in the help
file.

 

I would love to be corrected otherwise, but that was the response I get
from several people (thanks by the way!).

 

However, my whole purpose for wanting macros to work was to simplify
input.  I suppose it's possible that I could take the .inp file created by
eQuest, run it thru the DOS-based DOE2 processor to run the macros, and
then reopen with eQuest (and repeat every time I want to process
something).  Not ideal, but it might make things easier for jobs where I
have 300+ spaces.

 

 

 

From: Grando, John [mailto:JGrando at cosentini.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:35 AM
To: James Hansen
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] help with macros?

 

Please let me know if you get any clarification on this.  I have been
trying the same thing but have been getting similar results

 


John Grando LEED AP| Mechanical Engineer

  

 

 

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From: James Hansen [mailto:JHANSEN at ghtltd.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 1:01 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] help with macros?

Doug and Brian,

 

Thanks for your recommendations - unfortunately neither of them worked
(using ##set1 and removing quotes).

 

Here is the "example" directly from the DOE2 pdf:

 



 

 

I made a very similar macro, except defined:

 

##def GHTclassify

 

  CONDITIONED

  PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"

 

##enddef

 

And used the command line 

 

ZONE-TYPE        = GHTclassify[]

 

With the thought that the result should be equivalent to:

 

ZONE-TYPE        = CONDITIONED

PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"

 

Just like in the example.  But unfortunately, when I open the BDL file, it
shows the translated command as:

 

     *1502 *           "EL1 South Perim Spc (G.S1) - Office" = SPACE

     *1503 *           SHAPE            = POLYGON

     *1504 *           ZONE-TYPE        = GHTclassify[]

   .1*   9 *              PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"

   .1*  10 *  

     *1505 *           LIGHTING-SCHEDUL = ( "EL1 Bldg InsLt Sch" )

 

 

In other words, it's not pulling the "CONDITIONED" in to the zone-type
line as in the example, but it IS pulling in the People schedule.  Makes
no sense to me!

 

The only thing different in my case is I don't have the ".." in the ##def
because I don't want this to end the space definition.

 

Any thoughts?

 

GHT Limited
James Hansen, PE, LEED AP

Senior Associate

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Arlington, VA  22201-4749

703-338-5754 (Cell)

703-243-1200 (Office)

703-276-1376 (Fax)

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James
Hansen
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:51 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] help with macros?

 

I'm just getting started playing around with macros, and had a quick
question:

 

I current have a macro defined in my .inp file as follows:

 

##def GHTclassify

 

EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office

 

##enddef

 

I entered this directly after the first "INPUT .." line of the .inp file.
Is this the correct place to define macros?  Does it matter?

 

Further down when I describe a space, I have the following:

 

"EL1 South Perim Spc (G.S1) - Office" = SPACE           

   SHAPE            = POLYGON

   ZONE-TYPE        = CONDITIONED

   PEOPLE-SCHEDULE  = "GHTclassify[]"

   //lots of info on lighting, equipment, infiltration, etc

   POLYGON          = "EL1 Space Polygon 1"

   LOCATION         = FLOOR-V1

   ..

 

The "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office" is a valid annual schedule.

 

However, I'm getting an error that basically says GHTclassify was never
defined.

 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  I thought I copied this perfectly out of
the DOE2 Topic section.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

GHT Limited
James Hansen, PE, LEED AP

Senior Associate

1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 200

Arlington, VA  22201-4749

703-338-5754 (Cell)

703-243-1200 (Office)

703-276-1376 (Fax)

 <http://www.ghtltd.com/> www.ghtltd.com

 

 

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