[TRNSYS-users] Conversion of IDFs between Energy+ and TRNSYS

[Marcus]

Hey Adam, any luck?

TRNSYS produced IDF is not quite valid in E+ model language, it should
open, but the fields are not all within the E+ grammar (Energy+.idd).

Can you open the fol. in E+ IDF Editor?
\Trnsys17\Examples\3D_Building\2_Step_Import_Studio\Building.idf

This should at least open. You will have the geometry and a start with the
logic of spaces and boundary conditions, but will have to make some changes;
- Surface boundary conditions should be updated
- Materials & constructions added
- Etc.

You'll probably want to delete the rest and try to merge it with a simple
example file found in E+. If you need to do this to many files, I can help
with a parsing script.

Cheers,

Marcus
-- 
Marcus Jones,  M.Sc., LEED®AP BD+C
*Freelance energy consultant*
*Vienna, Austria*



On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Adam Rysanek <amr63 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I appreciate this might have been answered in the forum in the past.
> I have to (unfortunately) take my first foray into EnergyPlus modelling.
> I have a TRNSYS IDF file (produced by the TRNSYS3D plugin) that I'd like
> to convert to an Energy+ IDF file.
>
> Does anyone have experience doing this. I know TRNSYS3D is based off
> OpenStudio, but I can't quite figure out any way to reformat my TRNSYS IDF
> so that it works with Energy+
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> Cheers,
> Adam
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