[TRNSYS-users] Features of TRNSYS 17
Matt Duffy
duffy at tess-inc.com
Thu Dec 11 03:28:51 PST 2008
Dear Edward Halawa,
Thank you for your concern about the features of TRNSYS 17. It is always a
good idea to "vote" for your requests as you have done. I encourage others
to do the same because we keep an updated list of RFE's (request for
enhancement). Please send RFE's to your local distributor or directly to
techsupport at tess-inc.com.
Edward, to address some of your concerns on the source code and kernel
side of TRNSYS17, debugging, creating new components, and component
compatibility will be improved with new access functions. For example,
instead of the infamous INFO array, TRNSYS will recogonize something
similar to these...
!-------------------------------------------
!Set the Version Number for This Type
If(VersionSigningTime) Then
Call SetTypeVersion(17)
Return
Endif
!--------------------------------------------
!Do All of the Last Call Manipulations Here
If(LastCallofSimulation) Then
Return
Endif
!---------------------------------------------
!Do All of the "Very First Call of the Simulation Manipulations" Here
If(FirstCallofSimulation) Then
! Tell the TRNSYS Engine How This Type Works
Call SetNumberofParameters(1+2*N_Values)
Call SetNumberofInputs(3*N_Values)
Call SetNumberofDerivatives(0)
Call SetNumberofOutputs(N_Values)
Call SetIterationMode(1)
Call SetNumberStoredVariables(N_Values)
...and instead of the TYPECK for checking inputs and parameters...
Call FoundBadParameter
Call FoundBadInput
I do hope implementations like these will help you and many other users.
Again, if you have any other requests, please let me know, and thank you
for your concern.
Best regards,
Matt Duffy
Technical Support Team
Thermal Energy System Specialists
22 N Carroll, Suite 300
Madison, WI 53703
608.274.2577
duffy at tess-inc.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Halawa" <edward.halawa at unisa.edu.au>
Sent: Mon, December 8, 2008 17:12
Subject:Re: [TRNSYS-users] Features of TRNSYS 17
David,
Glad to hear the improvement TRNYS 17 will bring over the previous Version
16. In
addition to features you mentioned, I think the following should also be
addressed
by the development team:
1. Improved debugging. TRNSYS is "well known" for letting users to
guess what
actually the error messages it displays mean. I started using TRNSYS 15
and then
converted to TRNSYS 16. I believe, TRNSYS 15 debugging is better (read:
straightforward) than TRNSYS 16.
2. Direct translation of user defined TYPES / subroutine from
previous version
16 to 17. If this is not addressed, the users like me will again get
frustrated and
spend a lot of time to transfer their project from previous version to
version 17.
Creating the skeleton using "Export as Fortran / C++ ...." is not enough.
Using this
skeleton, users still spend a lot of time to copy paste the codes,
checking the
syntax and or defining variables ...
3. You wrote: "The user will probably have to adjust the way that they
structure information in TRNBuild". I do not know whether this also means:
we are
not able to actually run directly the previous TRNBUILD file in version 17?
4. Get rid of notorious "Error message 1000"
5. Optimised ordering of TRNSYS Simulation studio components without
the user
needing to do manual ordering.
I may have some more "wishes" later on, but for the time being I encourage
users
like me to send their wishes for TRNSYS 17 in this forum.
Thanks, Marcello, for reminding us about this.
Regards,
E Halawa
From: David Bradley [mailto:bradley at tess-inc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 3:20 AM
To: Marcello Caciolo
Cc: trnsys-users at cae.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [TRNSYS-users] Features of TRNSYS 17
Marcello,
You are correct that a new version is planned for release in summer
2009. The
major new features of version 17 will center on the building model.
Specifically,
TRNSYS will do a much better job of handling building self shading and
internal
solar radiation distribution through the use of a graphical preprocessor. The
details are not yet fully worked out but in the current testing, the user
draws
the building in Google SketchUp, then exports it to TRNBuild through the
use of a
preprocessor). The user will probably have to adjust the way that they
structure
information in TRNBuild. The use of the preprocessor itself is quite
straightforward and the structure of the TRNSYS Studio will not change
substantially. One important new feature there is planned to be a two-tab
view of
the input file (*.dck and *.tpf). Another new feature will be a very flexible
component that will calculate energy transfer between a building and the
ground.
There will be a number of other new features and models as well but these
three
are the most significant developments.
Kind regards,
David
Marcello Caciolo wrote:
Hy!
I've read in a previous message that a new release of TRNSYS is planned
for the next
year.
I wonder if TRNSYS 17 will include widespread changes in the interface and
in the
models with respect to the present version or it will be just an
"adjusted" version
of it. Do you have already defined which are the main new features?
Thank you!
Best regards,
Marcello
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