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Does geomeppy have the eppy rename functionality?

asked 2018-12-19 09:36:12 -0500

Vaclav's avatar

updated 2018-12-19 09:41:13 -0500

In eppy 0.5.44 documentation there is a description of the "modeleditor.rename(idf, key, oldname, newname)" functionality for applying a new name across the entire idf. I was not able to find anything about the same functionality in the geomeppy documentation. Does anyone know if it is there, why it would not be there, or have an alternative approach to renaming objects?

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answered 2018-12-27 16:22:19 -0500

You can just import modeleditor from eppy. Here's an example:

from geomeppy import IDF
from eppy import modeleditor

IDF.setiddname(r'C:\EnergyPlusV8-0-0\Energy+.idd')
idf_f = IDF(r'C:\EnergyPlusV8-0-0\ExampleFiles\Minimal.idf')
idf_f.add_block(name='Boring hut',coordinates=[(10,0),(10,10),(0,10),(0,0)],height=3.5)
modeleditor.rename(idf_f,'ZONE','Block Boring hut Storey 0','Block Not so boring hut Storey 0')
idf_f.idfobjects['ZONE']

The output will look like that:

[
ZONE,
    Block Not so boring hut Storey 0,    !- Name
    0.0,                      !- Direction of Relative North
    0.0,                      !- X Origin
    0.0,                      !- Y Origin
    0.0,                      !- Z Origin
    1,                        !- Type
    1,                        !- Multiplier
    autocalculate,            !- Ceiling Height
    autocalculate,            !- Volume
    autocalculate,            !- Floor Area
    ,                         !- Zone Inside Convection Algorithm
    ,                         !- Zone Outside Convection Algorithm
    Yes;                      !- Part of Total Floor Area
]
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