[Equest-users] 20 years of BLDG-SIM

Fri Mar 8 16:07:36 PST 2019

Chris,

You're welcomed! The history behind DrawBDL was that I got tired of 
drawing little sketches on paper to visualize what a model looked like, 
and wrote a little program that read the coordinates and turned it into 
an input file for a Unix-based sketching program at the Lab (TELLEGRAF). 
I then showed it to a programmer friend who said he'd try turning it 
into a PC program using Turbo Pascal. In 3 weeks time he had a working 
prototype, but being a real computer programmer Jim said that we were 
only half done.  So true that was!

One reason for the gaudy primary colors for the surfaces was that Jim 
was concerned about what graphics processors people had on their PCs and 
so stuck with 16-bit color. PCs were so limited in power then that when 
I went to DOE in the early 90's and demo'd DrawBDL on somebody's PC 
there, the drawing was so slow (blink ! another window! ) that I stopped 
the demo to avoid losing the audience.

Those were the days.

Joe

On 3/8/2019 5:29 AM, Jones, Christopher via Equest-users wrote:
>
> Yes, time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like bananas.
>
> I began my modeling journey in the fall of 1994. I was given a rolling 
> ruler, a tape measure and a clip board to audit a small commercial 
> building. Having gathered the building information, I went back to the 
> office and opened the DOE2 Basics, fired up the old 8086 DOS box and 
> started typing. We were using Acrosoft DOE2.1e and Brief for the text 
> editor. I still program my text editor to use the Brief keystroke 
> short cuts. The 40 MB hard drive filled up pretty quickly. Upgrading 
> cost $1 per MB – a 350 MB hard drive cost $350.
>
> I was very grateful when I discovered DrawBDL for debugging the 
> geometry – thanks to Joe!
>
> *Christopher R Jones, P.Eng.*
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> T+ 1 416-644-0252
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> *From:*Equest-users 
> [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Joe 
> Huang via Equest-users
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 07, 2019 9:27 PM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] 20 years of BLDG-SIM
>
> Wow, has it been twenty years already?  It doesn't feel like it.  I 
> still remember a time back then when there was an informal meeting 
> about the future of building energy simulation programs at the ACEEE 
> Conference, probably in the late 80's or early 90's.  Jeff Haberl 
> looked at me and said that the DOE-2 Group should have a  Home Page.  
> I looked back at Jeff and asked, "what's a  'home page'" ?
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
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> On 3/7/2019 6:02 PM, Erik Kolderup via Equest-users wrote:
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>     Bill Bishop, BLDG-SIM artist in residence.
>
>     *Erik Kolderup, PE, LEED AP*
>
>     erik at kolderupconsulting.com <mailto:erik at kolderupconsulting.com>|
>     415.531.5198 | www.kolderupconsulting.com
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>     On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:47 PM Bishop, Bill via Equest-users
>     <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
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>         Congrats Jason!
>
>         *William Bishop, PE, BEMP, BEAP, CEM, LEED AP*
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>         *Senior Energy Engineer*
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