<BODY><P>Thanks for the responses and telephone calls. Most of them were sent to me directly. The general picture I got was that TRACE700 does a better job of importing Revit data than IESVE. Importing and other problems can be fixed. Is the IESVE program in metric only?.</P>
<P>Varkie </P>
<P><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: Stirling Walkes <Swalkes@smseng.com> <BR>Date: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:11 am <BR>Subject: RE: [Bldg-sim] IES-VE Energy <BR>To: Varkie C Thomas <thomasv@iit.edu>, Bldg-Sim <bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org>, CARNEY Ronan <Ronan.CARNEY@projectservices.qld.gov.au> <BR><BR>> Thanks for the tip Ronan. Did you create a room schedule within <BR>> Revit to monitor rooms and loads within rooms to ensure that they <BR>> have been carried over properly? Or have you found that it isn't <BR>> worth the time? <BR>> <BR>> Regards, <BR>> <BR>> Stirling <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> >>> "CARNEY Ronan" <Ronan.CARNEY@projectservices.qld.gov.au> <BR>> 2/22/2009 5:13 PM >>> <BR>> I strongly advise you not to use this option. If Revit, looses a <BR>> room, it's likely that you'll not even notice it. I created a full <BR>> model of a 50million project within Revit from the Archit
ectural <BR>> model. Loaded it into IES and lost 75% of all rooms, that's over <BR>> 200 rooms, all lost. <BR>> My solution is, purchase the software, draw all model from sratch <BR>> within IES of Sketchup, Stay away from IES with Revit, it always <BR>> falls over or is incorrect or requires 3 or 4 times of repetitive <BR>> data entry e.g. construction properties. <BR>> <BR>> Kind Regards <BR>> Ronan Carney <BR>> <BR>> ________________________________ <BR>> <BR>> From: bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org on behalf of Stirling <BR>> WalkesSent: Mon 23/02/2009 12:56 AM <BR>> To: Varkie C Thomas; Bldg-Sim <BR>> Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] IES-VE Energy <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> REVIT MEP comes with the IES VE load analysis built in. But I <BR>> think you need to have the full version to analyze the energy <BR>> consumption based on systems and lighting etc. <BR>> <BR>> I have found that as long as the spaces have been set up co
rrectly <BR>> by the architect in Revit generating the geometry for the energy <BR>> model is done by Revit and takes a couple of minutes to determine <BR>> interior vs exterior walls/windows etc. (depending on the size of <BR>> the building and the capacity of the computer doing the <BR>> calculations). The calculations will generate a room by room load <BR>> calculation which can be imported back to the model and allocated <BR>> to the individual spaces. <BR>> <BR>> Vs doing an import of the Autocad drawing and tracing the shape, <BR>> locating windows etc. Time savings can be significant. <BR>> <BR>> However, I have only yet used it for loads for equipment sizing <BR>> and not for an energy simulation. <BR>> <BR>> Regards, <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> V. Stirling Walkes, P.Eng., LEED AP <BR>> Partner <BR>> SMS Engineering Ltd. <BR>> 770 Bradford Street <BR>> Winnipeg MB R3H 0N3 Canada <BR>> phone: 204.775.0291 <BR>&
gt; fax: 204.772.2153 <BR>> Swalkes@smseng.com <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> >>> Varkie C Thomas <thomasv@iit.edu> 2/21/2009 4:22 PM >>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> I have been asked by an ME/AE firm to check out IES-VE Energy. <BR>> This firm makes extensive use of the Revit programs for design. <BR>> <BR>> I downloaded the trial version of 'IES-VE-Ware/Toolkits 5.9 <BR>> Setup' and tried to run/install it and I got the following <BR>> message: "You require an installation of Google Stetchup 6, etc., <BR>> to install VE-Ware" <BR>> <BR>> I downloaded 'IES<VE>5.9 SketchUp Plug-in Setup' and tried to <BR>> install this and got the following message: "You must have a copy <BR>> of IES<Virtual Environment>5.9 installed before attempting to <BR>> install this plug-in" <BR>> <BR>> I am interested in trying out IES-VE Energy component only. Is <BR>> there a trial version for this? Is there a tutorial that I can <BR
>> refer to when trying to learn how to use this program? <BR>> <BR>> The IES-VE website shows 2 engineering clients - Syska Hennessy <BR>> and Vanderweil Engineering. How many building projects have been <BR>> analyzed with IES-VE for energy performance by US AE firms? <BR>> <BR>> Why use IES-VE-Energy when DOE2.1E and eQUEST are free and TRACE <BR>> and HAP are inexpensive with excellent customer support? <BR>> <BR>> Is there statistical data by type & size of project, on the energy <BR>> programs used in the US for code compliance and LEED certification? <BR>> <BR>> Varkie Thomas <BR>> <BR>> ***************************** Disclaimer ***************************** <BR>> <BR>> The contents of this electronic message and any attachments are <BR>> intended only for the addressee and may contain privileged or <BR>> confidential information. They may only be used for the purposes <BR>> for which they were supplied. If you are
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