Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Hi, I'm currently an OpenStudio user. It is much more user-friendly than EP-Launch, however, it doesn't have the same modeling capability. Since I'm not a good measure writer (yet, hopefully) when I need to model something that OpenStudio does not provide I switch to modify the .idf file (manually or via EP-Launch). I would suggest spending your time on OpenStudio, then with a bit of practice, you could start learning how to write measure, and automate your work. Sometimes, I launch the energyplus .idf by Matlab to simulate multiple building configurations. This is my experience, I'm curious to see other more experienced users how approached BEM.
