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ExpandObjects source code

asked 9 years ago

scottb's avatar

updated 7 years ago

Is there any intent to open source the ExpandObjects tool for pre-processing IDFs?

I find myself occasionally wishing I could develop new HVACTemplate objects to suite my needs.

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answered 9 years ago

The ExpandObjects source code is in a single Fortran 90 file called epfilter.f90. It can be seen at:

https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/tree/develop/src/ExpandObjects

It was designed to make it extendable to new HVACTemplates.

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Jason, I'm slightly confused... I was expecting those f90 files to have been converted to C++ with v8.2. Am I missing something?

Julien Marrec's avatar Julien Marrec  ( 9 years ago )

The main focus of the conversion from Fortran to C++ was the main EnergyPlus program. Many utilities, like ExpandObjects, were not converted to C++.

JasonGlazer's avatar JasonGlazer  ( 9 years ago )

Understood, thanks. Is there a plan to convert those at some point or will they remain in fortran?

Julien Marrec's avatar Julien Marrec  ( 9 years ago )

We could do that. We have Stuart Mentzer (the man who translated EnergyPlus) under contract. Stay tuned.

__AmirRoth__'s avatar __AmirRoth__  ( 9 years ago )

Great! Glad I brought this up. I was confused by the f90 vs cpp issue as well

scottb's avatar scottb  ( 9 years ago )

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