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face="Times New Roman">I am trying to modify a component that is
already put (or embedded) into my project in the simulation studio. The
output parameters of the component are not able to change. If somebody
wants to make some changes, then it has to make changes to the library
component, and put it again to the simulation studio. Is that correct?</font></font></font></span></p>
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if the parameters inputs and outputs of the model do not change then
there is no need to modify the proforma and the user is not obligated
to replace the component in the Simulation Studio project. All they
have to do at that point is make sure that they are using a DLL that
contains the modified, recompiled, relinked source code that
incorporates the change. If the list of parameters, inputs, and output
changes then the user needs to update the proforma, then update all
instances of that proforma in the project (either by performing an
"edit: replace" or by deleting and readding the component.<br>
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lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">I
create some new “outputs” to a library component, defining the name,
the role, the dimension and the unit. How can I be sure that the
program really “understands” what is about? For example, the new
parameters created by me are total and beam solar radiation in 4
elevations. As a result I get error messages. On the other hand, if I
copy the same component from another project (that solar radiation in 4
elevations are already set), I don’t get error messages, but I cannot
change some options (for example the unit of solar radiation that is an
output). Have you got any idea about solving this problem?</font></span></p>
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the list of inputs, outputs, and parameters in the proforma must
correspond exactly to the list of inputs, outputs, and parameters that
are expected by the source code. You cannot just change the proforma
without also changing the source code and recompiling the appropriate
DLL. Without knowing what the error message says, it is a bit hard to
guess what the problem might be.<br>
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face="Times New Roman">There is an additional question about
simulation. Using type 65a, gives me a result file in *.plt form. When
I read the results using the software named “WordPad” I get the correct
results. When I transform the same file in order to be able to read it
with excel, the numbers seems to change. For example a temperature that
is +2.0008191901532996E+01, is viewed through excel as 2,00E+17!!!! Is
there I can do for that. Maybe using another software?</font></font></font></span></p>
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you should be able to open those files with either Wordpad or Excel.
The *.plt file generated by Type65 is just a tab (or space, I am not
sure) delimited text file. I would guess that if Excel is showing you
some strange numbers, it is just misinterpreting the format of the data
that it is reading. I use Excel (2003) all the time to open output
files generated by TRNSYS. Typically, I open Excel first, then select
"File: Open" browse to find the file and then follow through all of the
import screens to teach Excel that both spaces and tabs are field
delimiters.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
David<br>
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