Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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OpenStudio-HPXML is really meant to be used by user interfaces or automated software workflows, where the software produces an HPXML file to describe a home and then runs OpenStudio-HPXML for the EnergyPlus simulation. There's nothing that stops it from being directly by an end user, of course, but most end users will find it too difficult to create an HPXML file manually.
Note that HPXML is used for a variety of different use cases beyond energy modeling. So while there are a lot of software tools that can produce a HPXML file for you, these HPXMLs typically do not have sufficient detail to run OpenStudio-HPXML and produce EnergyPlus results. Software tools need to be specifically designed or updated to be able to produce an HPXML file compatible with OpenStudio-HPXML.
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OpenStudio-HPXML is really meant to be used by user interfaces or automated software workflows, where the software produces an HPXML file to describe a home and then runs OpenStudio-HPXML for the EnergyPlus simulation. There's nothing that stops it from being directly by an end user, user from using it directly, of course, but most end users will find it too difficult to create an HPXML file manually.
Note that HPXML is used for a variety of different use cases beyond energy modeling. So while there are a lot of software tools that can produce a HPXML file for you, these HPXMLs typically do not have sufficient detail to run OpenStudio-HPXML and produce EnergyPlus results. Software tools need to be specifically designed or updated to be able to produce an HPXML file compatible with OpenStudio-HPXML.
