Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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OpenStudio GUI doesn't expose the manual fields for a thermal zone like height, area, or volume. We typically rely on EnergyPlus to auto-calculate it. These fields are exposed in the API as shown here, but you would have to use a measure. You would also have to be careful if space loads were per area or related to volume like airflow, that space still had accurate geometry to calculate the correct internal loads.
If you are making a new model you can set the desired height by using the spaces from diagram tool in the SketchUp plugin or use a measure like the Bar Aspect Ratio measure.
If you're model already exists and you want to edit it by editing the space geometry , some possible solutions (by measure based and plugin based) are described on this thread.
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The OpenStudio GUI doesn't expose the manual fields for a thermal zone like height, area, or volume. We typically rely on EnergyPlus to auto-calculate autocalculate it. These fields are exposed in the API as shown here, but you would have to use a measure. You would also have to be careful if space loads were per area or related to volume like airflow, that the space still had accurate geometry to calculate the correct internal loads.
If you are making a new model you can set the desired height by using the spaces from diagram tool in the SketchUp plugin or use a measure like the Bar Aspect Ratio measure.
If you're model already exists and you want to edit it by editing the space geometry , some possible solutions (by measure (measure based and plugin based) are described on this thread.
