Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Files that contain GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:* and GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:* objects need to run the basement.exe and slab.exe preprocessor programs. The command line version of EnergyPlus does not run these preprocessors. If you run the command line:
energyplus.exe --help
you will notice that no options exist for running the basement.exe or slab.exe preprocessors. More information on the command line use of EnergyPlus.exe is documented here.
As an alternative, you can use RunEPlus.bat file that is documented here and here. The RunEPlus.bat batch file is very similar to the EPL-RUN.bat batch file that EP-Launch uses which is why it is working when you run EP-Launch.
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Files that contain GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:* and GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:* objects need to run the basement.exe and slab.exe preprocessor programs. The command line version of EnergyPlus does not run these preprocessors. If you run the command line:
energyplus.exe --help
you will notice that no options exist for running the basement.exe or slab.exe preprocessors. More information on the command line use of EnergyPlus.exe is documented here.
As an alternative, you can use RunEPlus.bat file that is documented here and here. The RunEPlus.bat batch file is very similar to the EPL-RUN.bat batch file that EP-Launch uses which is why it is working when you run EP-Launch.
Also, you might want to consider using Foundation:Kiva model instead of the GroundHeatTransfer: objects.
