<div dir="ltr">Not exactly what you're looking for, but before turning in a model to the USGBC I used to bring up the delete annual schedule dialog box in eQUEST by attempting to delete a schedule, then page down through the schedules in my file making note of each schedule that was listed as having zero references. I would then go into the inp file and be able to fairly quickly remove all of the annual schedules that I was not using. This doesn't clean up the weekly or daily schedules, but it makes your LV-G report cleaner for the reviewer.<div>
<br></div><div style>-Robby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Neil Bulger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbulger@integralgroup.com" target="_blank">nbulger@integralgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bill,<div><br></div><div>You have actually touched on a favorite subject of mine in the wonderful-world-of-eQuest. Or the terrifying world, same thing really. Right now, we typically strip-out a majority of the defined parameters in an eQuest model as it pertains to internal loads and pretty much every thermal-zone property. My tool of choice is actually Notepad ++ using regular expressions (fun stuff if you dig into it).</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are finding that learning just a little bit of script-language in eQuest can greatly simplify how inputs are specified, by using default look-up equations and in essence give eQuest some template-like abilities for space types and thermal zone definitions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While cleaning-out unused schedules may seem nice, unless all objects no longer reference those schedules, it is difficult to say which ones stay and which go, especially difficult to write a program that automates this step. My suggestion would be to get comfortable with simplifying the first-level definitions of internal loads and thermal zones to use more relational inputs (which allow a model to be quickly change or reference other things) and then focus on ensuring un-used schedules or other objects get removed.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Paul Riemer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Paul.Riemer@dunhameng.com" target="_blank">Paul.Riemer@dunhameng.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Remember to keep any schedules that your parametric runs may call.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#5f574f">Paul Riemer, PE, LEED AP BD+C</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#c00000">DUNHAM</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#c00000"><u></u><u></u></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""> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bishop, Bill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> Bishop, Bill; <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Tool for removing extraneous schedules from input file<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Bill,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The eQUEST “Quality Control Reporting” tool shows a list of schedules that are not assigned in the model. You would have to delete them manually if you didn’t want them in the model. Yes, I agree that it would be handy to have a tool that deletes them automatically. Maybe someone will surprise you for your birthday. ;)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="684" height="291"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bill<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bishop, Bill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Tool for removing extraneous schedules from input file<u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know if such a tool exists?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I would like to be able to “clean up” a model by removing schedules (annual, week, day) and perhaps other inputs (utility rates, performance curves) that are not used in the model. Perhaps this would be an Excel macro that searches an input file and then asks for user confirmation before deleting the unused schedules/curves etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If this hasn’t already been created, this would be an excellent way for some intrepid engineer/student/geek to earn some street cred.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">~Bill<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>William Bishop, PE, BEMP, BEAP, LEED AP | Pathfinder Engineers & Architects LLP<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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