Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I believe the issue is that you are using the SketchUp File menu to save and open your file--this only saves the .skp file. Don't use these. In fact, you won't use the .skp file at all. Instead, use the Euclid menu options to save and open the EnergyPlus .idf file. Save the EnergyPlus file using the menu command Extensions/Euclid/Save. Open the EnergyPlus file using the menu command Extensions/Euclid/Open...
This is a common problem that many new users run into. We've documented it in our issue tracker as a bug and hope to find a more user-friendly way to anticipate the mistake.
