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EnergyPlus without any cross-platform tools

asked 8 years ago

updated 8 years ago

Dear Friends,

I used to use SketchUp for make the geometry of the building, but do the rest with EnergyPlus. Is it possible to do the geometry with EnergyPlus as well not needing any cross-platform tools like SketchUp, OpenStudio, etc.?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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answered 8 years ago

Adam Hilton's avatar

I guess you could always just input vertices for surfaces by hand, but that seems a bit cumbersome. EnergyPlus doesn't currently have a self-contained geometry development tool. The closest you can get in the Legacy OpenStudio plugin for SketchUp, currently unsupported, but that may (will) soon change ;)

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Thanks! That's right, but what do you mean by unsupported? Is it still possible to create the geometry in SketchUp and export as an IDF file to EnergyPlus?

Pouya's avatar Pouya  ( 8 years ago )

It's only updated to E+ 8.4. I assume it will still work with the current version of SketchUp, but I haven't tried.

Adam Hilton's avatar Adam Hilton  ( 8 years ago )

Thanks a lot! :)

Pouya's avatar Pouya  ( 8 years ago )

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