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Big thanks to all the folks who helped here (@macumber and @david-goldwasser).
I pushed out a solution on github here
My solution proved very similar to David's final proposal. I'm not sure it's the most elegant or "Ruby" way of doing this, but I created a class which was Comparable (I called it SpaceSort). The whole purpose of this class was to sort an array of OpenStudio::Model::Spaces by their bounding box limits. The order of heirarchy:
min_x > max_x >min_y > max_y >min_z > max_zThe code here might explain it better.
I then use that class to sort my spaces so that they are always consistent.
def sort_spaces(spaces)
# Array of SpaceSort objects, used to sort spaces by their bounding boxes
space_sort_list = []
# Construct SurfaceSort objects for sorting surfaces
spaces.each do |space|
space_sort_list << SpaceSort.new(space)
end
# sort SurfaceSort objects by their bounding box boundaries
sorted_list = space_sort_list.sort()
sorted_spaces = []
# Extract spaces from sorted SurfaceSort objects
sorted_list.each do |space_sort|
sorted_spaces << space_sort.space
end
return(sorted_spaces)
end
Once sorted, this behavior became consistent and, at least in this model, fixed my issue. I'll have to do more extensive testing to make sure this is a generalized solution to this problem.
