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impossible to insert material into the wall

asked 9 years ago

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updated 9 years ago

I have a problem in Sketchup . When I open the SketchUp model and load my last file EnergyPlus .idf and try to change the material of the wall , this is impossible . why?image description legacy openstudio

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What SketchUp plug-in are you using? OpenStudio, or OpenStudio legacy? Can you give more information about how you are trying to change the material?

Neal Kruis's avatar Neal Kruis  ( 9 years ago )

legacy openstudio

tech91's avatar tech91  ( 9 years ago )

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answered 9 years ago

updated 9 years ago

What you are trying to do is assign a SketchUp material rendering onto an EnergyPlus model. This isn't allowed, because that would alter SketchUp files only (similar to how you want to save IDF files in Legacy OpenStudio, not the SKP files).

What you should do is right-click on a model surface, then select "Legacy OpenStudio -> Object Info". You should see something similar to the screen shot below. The red box indicates the Construction input field for the surface object, which specifies the construction assembly (collection of material layers) for that surface.

Object Info Screenshot from SketchUp Legacy Plug-In

From the SketchUp plug-in, you are limited to being able to assign constructions, but not materials. You can assign default constructions for surface types (ground, external wall, internal wall, ceiling, etc.) from the menu command "Plugins -> Legacy OpenStudio -> Default Constructions". You can also create a new construction using this feature, but you will get the following message:

Warning after creating new construction

Unfortunately, you will have to create Material objects in your IDF file outside of SketchUp.

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I thank you very much for your answer. you solved my problem.

tech91's avatar tech91  ( 9 years ago )

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