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  1. It's not yet commonly used since the feature is pretty new and many users and software tools have not yet tried taking advantage of it.

  2. OpenStudio currently has experimental support for translating to E+ spaces (instead of E+ zones). You can use it by manually calling ForwardTranslator::setExcludeSpaceTranslation(false) before calling ForwardTranslator::translateModel(Model&) or passing the CLI argument --space-translation to the run method (eg: openstudio run --space-translation -w workflow.osw). In a future version of OpenStudio (potentially v3.7 in November), it's expected that OpenStudio will change from opt-in to opt-out.

  1. 2) It's not yet commonly used since the feature is pretty new and many users and software tools have not yet tried taking advantage of it.

  2. 3) OpenStudio currently has experimental support for translating to E+ spaces (instead of E+ zones). You can use it by manually calling ForwardTranslator::setExcludeSpaceTranslation(false) before calling ForwardTranslator::translateModel(Model&) or passing the CLI argument --space-translation to the run method (eg: openstudio run --space-translation -w workflow.osw). In a future version of OpenStudio (potentially v3.7 in November), it's expected that OpenStudio will change from opt-in to opt-out.