<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Jason, </font></font><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Yes please do !</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">Thank you<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jason Glazer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jglazer@gard.com">jglazer@gard.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Karhryn<br>
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When EnergyPlus was first being developed, we assumed that many people using DOE-2.1e (the predecessor to eQUEST) would want to convert their existing files so I was funded to develop a translator. I do not believe it was used much so we stopped updating it. It is not a graphical program like Sketch-up but something used on a DOS command line. If you or someone else has an interest in updating the source code so that it supports the latest version of EnergyPlus and eQUEST, please let me know.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 3/2/2012 1:41 PM, Kathryn Kerns wrote:<br>
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Huh. Good for you. What prompted you to start down this<br>
path and why did you stop? So you built a Fortran program<br>
that mostly converted the eQuest geometry files to an<br>
input file that EnergyPlus would understand? I wonder if<br>
it is similar to the free Google Sketch-up Legacy Add-in<br>
I read about.<br>
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Does anybody know if the free Google Sketch-up Legacy<br>
Add-in can somehow import eQuest files to EnergyPlus<br>
files kind of like Jason's program?<br>
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-----Original Message----- From: Jason Glazer<br>
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11:05 AM To: CleanTech Analytics; Kathryn Kerns Cc: Joe<br>
Huang Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Is there a Way to<br>
Convert eQuest output files to EnergyPlus input files and<br>
vice-versa?<br>
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Jeremiah and Kathryn,<br>
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Another translator from DOE-2.1e to EnergyPlus was<br>
developed by myself and is available called<br>
DOE2Translator. It focused on building and did not<br>
support much HVAC. It has not been kept up to date with<br>
the latest version of EnergyPlus because it was rarely<br>
being used.<br>
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I think it could be easily updated to use the latest<br>
version of EnergyPlus and it would take some more effort<br>
to support eQUEST/DOE-2.2. It was written in Fortran.<br>
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Jason<br>
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On 3/2/2012 12:00 PM, CleanTech Analytics wrote:<br>
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Below is what my research uncovered on the subject<br>
(boo)<br>
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Joe, I like to use eQeust and Energy plus for all<br>
projects so that I can cross reference the results.<br>
This means doing the same thing twice, and not<br>
necessarily the exact same way. I am wondering if I<br>
could use drawbdl to export my eQUEST geometry to<br>
energy plus 6 or 7 without compromising the geometry<br>
file?<br>
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If so I am wondering how to get the drawbdl program?<br>
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Thanks Joe Huang ✆ <a href="mailto:YJHuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">YJHuang@whiteboxtechnologies.<u></u>com</a><br>
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Jan 22 to me<br>
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Jeremiah,<br>
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DrawBDL reads DOE-2.1E, not eQUEST/DOE-2.2, and can<br>
export the building geometry data to an EnergyPlus IDF.<br>
I've also developed 4 years ago a modified version of<br>
DOE-2.1E that exports a full EnergyPlus IDF file.<br>
Unfortunately, EnergyPlus IDF language has changed over<br>
time, so that I must either update the program (doe2ep)<br>
and find some other way to upgrade from EP 3.1 to 6 or<br>
7 (I don't really keep up with EnergyPlus, so I'm not<br>
sure)<br>
<br>
Because I've been getting more requests for<br>
translating from eQUEST/DOE-2.2 to EnergyPlus, for an<br>
interim solution I have been working on a procedure to<br>
modify DOE-2.2 to DOE-2.1E input, that then can be fed<br>
through either DrawBDL (outputs building geometry only)<br>
or doe2ep (full *.inp to *.IDF). I've gotten that<br>
procedure (a series of awk and sed scripts) to work on<br>
one test (but very complicated) eQUEST/DOE-2.2 input<br>
file, but in the course of doing this I uncovered some<br>
bugs in the translation to IDF in both programs<br>
(DrawBDL and doe2ep). Furthermore, I doubt that my 2.2<br>
to 2.1E procedure works in all cases.<br>
<br>
Therefore, I don't want to sell DrawBDL explicitly for<br>
that purpose, i.e., translating 2.2 to Energy IDF, nor<br>
do I want to release doe2ep at this time. However, I<br>
have thought of providing an eQUEST to EnergyPlus<br>
translation as a service until I get all the bugs<br>
worked out on my programs. What I could do is have you<br>
send me your eQUEST input file which I then test out<br>
using the programs and methods just mentioned, and<br>
then give you an estimate of the time and cost for<br>
translating it to EnergyPlus. Depending on the<br>
complexity of your files, it could be very easy or it<br>
could be very time-consuming to translate.<br>
<br>
By the way, I've been selling DrawBDL for $125 ever<br>
since I introduced it in 1993 (see <a href="http://www.drawbdl.com" target="_blank">www.drawbdl.com</a><br>
<<a href="http://www.drawbdl.com/" target="_blank">http://www.drawbdl.com/</a>> for details),while I intend<br>
to make doe2ep as open source software once it's done<br>
and been updated.<br>
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Joe<br>
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:40 AM, CleanTech Analytics<br>
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Wouldn't that be nice..<br>
<br>
I may be able to have it coded up, but would need<br>
funding.<br>
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Kathryn Kerns<br>
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Everyone, it occurs to me that we all could have the<br>
best of both worlds if we could start our projects in<br>
eQuest, move them over to EnergyPlus if we have<br>
complicated HVAC features, and then maybe move the<br>
EnergyPlus results back into eQuest for print-out and<br>
examination? Now that I think about it, only the first<br>
part probably needs to happen if EnergyPlus has energy<br>
consumption graphic outputs similar to eQuest? Has<br>
anybody ever tried this? It seems a simple solution so<br>
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