Getting Construction from Surface

You can cast the ConstructionBase to a Construction by using to_Construction:

construction = surface.construction
if not construction.empty? and not construction.get.to_Construction.empty?
  construction = construction.get.to_Construction.get
end

Which is one way to do it.

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I happened to see this answer. Hi Eric, I did not find to_Construction in OpenStudio SDK. Could you please help me where you can find the documentation about it?

wei_zhang ( 3 years ago )

@wei_zhang see this section of the Measure Writer's Guide: https://nrel.github.io/OpenStudio-use...

ericringold ( 3 years ago )

@Eric Ringold Thanks Eric, I have a further question. In Measure's Writer's Guide "if you want to test if the object returned is of a particular type (e.g., is it a Space or a SpaceType), you will have to try converting the object to those types using the ".to_#{ClassName}"". But the .clone would copy a object, why need we check it again after copying? because we do not trust .clone in Ruby?

I tried to use setLayer without to_Construction, got error undefined method setLayer for # .

That means we have to use ".to_#{ClassName}" as .clone can not completely copy ModelObject?

wei_zhang ( 3 years ago )

The clone method is implemented in the ModelObject class, which is the parent class that all OpenStudio model objects inherit from, and returns a copy of the original object as a ModelObject instance that must be cast back to the child class to access the child class's methods.

ericringold ( 3 years ago )

Thanks Eric, I understand now

wei_zhang ( 3 years ago )

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