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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m sorry to spam the
board with my macro questions, but if anyone has a spare minute, would they
mind inserting this command into a test INP file of theirs (right after the
INPUT ..) line, and run it, and tell me if it crashes eQuest?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>##set1
dumb_macros “not working”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>No matter what I name the macro
name (“dumb_macros” in this case), and no matter what I have as the
value (text, number, etc), whenever I open the project file from eQuest, it
goes thru the entire loading of the BDL with no errors, but then simply
terminates the program without any error messages or anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve tried the ##set1,
##def, and ##def1 commands, and none seem to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I don’t even have to
reference the macro name in the body of the input file for it to crash –
simply defining it does that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve tried with v3.63 and
v3.61, and it crashes in both versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Am I defining the macros in the
wrong location?</span><b><span style='color:#31849B'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James
Hansen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 04, 2010 1:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] help with macros?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Doug and Brian,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your recommendations
– unfortunately neither of them worked (using ##set1 and removing
quotes).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Here is the
“example” directly from the DOE2 pdf:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img width=519 height=384
id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image001.png@01CA8D54.F1FD2970"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I made a very similar macro,
except defined:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>##def GHTclassify</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> CONDITIONED</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> PEOPLE-SCHEDULE =
"EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>##enddef</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>And used the command line </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>ZONE-TYPE
= GHTclassify[]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>With the thought that the result
should be equivalent to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>ZONE-TYPE
= CONDITIONED</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg
Occup Sch - Office"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Just like in the example.
But unfortunately, when I open the BDL file, it shows the translated command
as:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> *1502 *
"EL1 South Perim
Spc (G.S1) - Office" = SPACE</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> *1503
*
SHAPE =
POLYGON</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> *1504 *
ZONE-TYPE = GHTclassify[]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> .1* 9
*
PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> .1* 10
* </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> *1505
* LIGHTING-SCHEDUL = (
"EL1 Bldg InsLt Sch" )</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Any thoughts?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>GHT
Limited<br>
</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>James
Hansen</span><span style='color:black'>, PE, LEED AP</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#31849B'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James
Hansen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 04, 2010 11:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] help with macros?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’m just getting started playing around with macros,
and had a quick question:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I current have a macro defined in my .inp file as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>##def GHTclassify<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>##enddef<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I entered this directly after the first “INPUT
..” line of the .inp file. Is this the correct place to define
macros? Does it matter?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Further down when I describe a space, I have the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>"EL1 South Perim Spc (G.S1) - Office" =
SPACE <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
SHAPE =
POLYGON<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
ZONE-TYPE = CONDITIONED<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> PEOPLE-SCHEDULE =
"GHTclassify[]"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> //lots of info on lighting, equipment,
infiltration, etc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
POLYGON = "EL1 Space
Polygon 1"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
LOCATION = FLOOR-V1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> ..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The “EL1 Bldg Occup Sch – Office” is a
valid annual schedule.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>However, I’m getting an error that basically says
GHTclassify was never defined.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I thought I
copied this perfectly out of the DOE2 Topic section.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>GHT
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</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>James
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