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<font size=3>We always said it was an "engine" for
calculations. Designed to be the engine. Look at our
documentation if you think otherwise.<br><br>
And 3rd parties, at their request, were to step up to the plate and
provide those interfaces all the domain users love so much. The
Government has been highly criticized for any attempts to produce full
scale commercial software and step on others toes.<br><br>
Go to
<a href="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/interfaces_tools.cfm" eudora="autourl">
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/interfaces_tools.cfm</a>
to see how far private industry has progressed in terms of providing
interfaces.<br><br>
At 08:47 AM 2/24/2010, Michael Andelman wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The 'hilarious' thing is that
EnergyPlus was introduced with much fanfare in<br>
2001. At the time it was described as a program designed to be used
with an<br>
interface (though I noticed that now they it's a "stand alone
program<br>
without a 'user friendly' graphical intrerface"). <br>
Nine years later we're still waiting for a fully functional
interface!</font></blockquote></body>
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