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I recently discovered that a schedule can be imported directly into the .idf by defining the schedule in a .csv file then specifying the name of the .csv file in the .idf. The .csv file I used is one row per hour. My example is an equipment schedule defined in the .idf: Schedule:File, Art_Class_Flr_2_Kiln_Sch, !- Name Fraction, !- Schedule Type Limits Name Kiln_Sch.csv, !- File Name 5, !- Column Number 1, !- Rows to Skip at Top 8760, !- Number of Hours of Data Comma; !- Column Separator
The .csv is defined: Count Month Day Hour Sec
1 1 1 1 0
Note, there is no blank row in the .csv file but I can't get the numbers to appear on the row below the header row without the blank in this answer.
