Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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The v2.0+ series of OpenStudio is really buggy with SketchUp.
For now, I'd suggest using Sketchup 2016 with OS v1.14 for geometry. The OpenStudio sketchup user-scripts are really helpful for quickly making geometry, and you can easily write your own scripts for common functions.
Honeybee is also good for quick shoebox geometry.
OpenStudio is an API for EnergyPlus. So even if you don't use OpenStudio directly, you can still use it to edit EnergyPlus files. There are other EnergyPlus APIs as well - eppy, Params, jEplus.
The Ladybug Tools and NREL teams are both working on geometry replacements to SketchUp, and EnergyPlus is moving to JSON format so your preferred EnergyPlus toolchain may look very different in a year or two.
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The v2.0+ series of OpenStudio is really buggy with SketchUp.
For now, I'd suggest using Sketchup 2016 with OS v1.14 for geometry. The OpenStudio sketchup user-scripts are really helpful for quickly making geometry, and you can easily write your own scripts for common functions.
Honeybee is also good for quick shoebox geometry.
OpenStudio is an API for EnergyPlus. So even if you don't use OpenStudio directly, you can still use it to edit EnergyPlus files. There are other EnergyPlus APIs as well - eppy, Params, jEplus.
The Ladybug Tools and NREL teams are both working on geometry replacements to SketchUp, and EnergyPlus is moving to JSON format , so your preferred EnergyPlus toolchain may look very different in a year or two.
