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If your workflow is to eventually add EnergyPlus objects that aren't available in OpenStudio, your best options are:

• write a measure to add the EnergyPlus objects within the OpenStudio application
• complete the model as much as possible in OpenStudio, then manually alter the IDF file it generates using IDF Editor or a text editor

If you have not written measures before, you can search the Building Component Library for public measures others have uploaded. If you want to learn how to write measures, the Measure Writing Guide is a good starting point.

The workflow on the question you linked is for merging two OpenStudio files (__.osm extension), so it likely won't work for merging two EnergyPlus files (__.idf extension).