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  • The file that gets simulated is the last one you see: out.idf at the root of 4-EnergyPlusPreProcess-0.
  • As Amir pointed out, changes to the IDF file generated by OpenStudio will not back-propagate. So that's fine to use the generated IDF file, change that, simulate it again until you fix a bug. But it's not an interactive workflow: if you can the OSM again, you'd have to redo these changes.
  • If you really need to make changes that you cannot do in OpenStudio purely, the typical thing to have an interactive process where you can still modify the OpenStudio OSM file is to write an EnergyPlus Measure. You can find some information about EnergyPlus Measures in the Measure Writer's Reference Guide
  • The file that gets simulated is the last one you see: out.idf at the root of 4-EnergyPlusPreProcess-0.
  • As Amir pointed out, changes to the IDF file generated by OpenStudio will not back-propagate. So that's fine to use the generated IDF file, change that, simulate it again until you fix a bug. But it's not an interactive workflow: if you can change the OSM again, you'd have to redo these changes.
  • If you really need to make changes that you cannot do in OpenStudio purely, the typical thing to have an interactive process where you can still modify the OpenStudio OSM file is to write an EnergyPlus Measure. You can find some information about EnergyPlus Measures in the Measure Writer's Reference Guide
  • The file that gets simulated is the last one you see: out.idf at the root of 4-EnergyPlusPreProcess-0.4-EnergyPlusPreProcess-0.
  • As Amir pointed out, changes to the IDF file generated by OpenStudio will not back-propagate. So that's fine to use the generated IDF file, change that, simulate it again until you fix a bug. But it's not an interactive workflow: if you change the OSM again, you'd have to redo these changes.
  • If you really need to make changes that you cannot do in OpenStudio purely, the typical thing to have an interactive process where you can still modify the OpenStudio OSM file is to write an EnergyPlus Measure. You can find some information about EnergyPlus Measures in the Measure Writer's Reference Guide
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