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<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Joe, </font></font><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I like to use eQeust and Energy plus for all projects so that I can cross reference the results. This means doing the same thing twice, and not necessarily the exact same way. I am wondering if I could use drawbdl to export my eQUEST geometry to energy plus 6 or 7 without compromising the geometry file?</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">If so I am wondering how to get the drawbdl program?</font></font></div><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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<div id=":1ou">Jeremiah,<br><br>DrawBDL reads DOE-2.1E, not eQUEST/DOE-2.2, and can export the building geometry data to an EnergyPlus IDF. I've also developed 4 years ago a modified version of DOE-2.1E that exports a full EnergyPlus IDF file. Unfortunately, EnergyPlus IDF language has changed over time, so that I must either update the program (doe2ep) and find some other way to upgrade from EP 3.1 to 6 or 7 (I<br>
don't really keep up with EnergyPlus, so I'm not sure)<br><br> Because I've been getting more requests for translating from eQUEST/DOE-2.2 to EnergyPlus, for an interim solution I have been working on a procedure to modify DOE-2.2 to DOE-2.1E input, that then can be fed through either DrawBDL (outputs building geometry only) or doe2ep (full *.inp to *.IDF). I've gotten that procedure (a series of awk and sed scripts) to work on one test (but very complicated) eQUEST/DOE-2.2 input file, but in the course of doing this I uncovered some bugs in the translation to IDF in both programs (DrawBDL and doe2ep). Furthermore, I doubt<br>
that my 2.2 to 2.1E procedure works in all cases.<br><br>Therefore, I don't want to sell DrawBDL explicitly for that purpose, i.e., translating 2.2 to Energy IDF, nor do I want to release doe2ep at this time. However, I have<br>
thought of providing an eQUEST to EnergyPlus translation as a service until I get<br>all the bugs worked out on my programs. What I could do is have you send me your eQUEST input file which I then test out using the programs and methods just mentioned, and then give you an estimate of the time and cost for translating it<br>
to EnergyPlus. Depending on the complexity of your files, it could be very easy<br>or it could be very time-consuming to translate.<br><br>By the way, I've been selling DrawBDL for $125 ever since I introduced it in 1993 (see <a href="http://www.drawbdl.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.drawbdl.com</a> for details),while I intend to make doe2ep as open source software once it's done and been updated.<br>
<br>Joe</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:40 AM, CleanTech Analytics <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremiah@cleantechanalytics.com">jeremiah@cleantechanalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Wouldn't that be nice..</font></font><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I may be able to have it coded up, but would need funding. <br>
</font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Kathryn Kerns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathryn.kerns@bceengineers.com" target="_blank">kathryn.kerns@bceengineers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Everyone, it occurs to me that we all could have the best of
both worlds if we could start our projects in eQuest, move them over to
EnergyPlus if we have complicated HVAC features, and then maybe move the
EnergyPlus results back into eQuest for print-out and examination? Now that I
think about it, only the first part probably needs to happen if EnergyPlus has
energy consumption graphic outputs similar to eQuest? Has anybody ever tried
this? It seems a simple solution so I am sure there is something wrong with it.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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