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Hi, I am trying to take advantage of BEopt's capability to rapidly generate residential building envelopes. The idea is this: I wanted to use BEopt to sketch the geometry, export it as IDF, then import it into OpenStudio and save it as .OSM file. Then there is an error that is related to "draft strictness". I figured it is because OpenStudio is quite limited in terms of importing IDF files, based on my research.

So what I did next was to first open the BEopt IDF with SketchUp to get the geometry, then save it as .OSM from SketchUp. When I open this file in OpenStudio, everything seems fine. But when I tried applying a measure by going to the measure tab and drag-drop them from the library, an error appears and OS crashed.(screenshot below)

I've tried several times. The same error pops up. Is there a way to solve this? Or is this kind of file conversion not recommended in terms of workflow? I wanted to do a small parametric analysis of a residential model using the OpenStudio PAT tool, and BEopt is very good at making a standard residential model.

Hi, I am trying to take advantage of BEopt's capability to rapidly generate residential building envelopes. The idea is this: I wanted to use BEopt to sketch the geometry, export it as IDF, then import it into OpenStudio and save it as .OSM file. Then there is an error that is related to "draft strictness". I figured it is because OpenStudio is quite limited in terms of importing IDF files, based on my research.

So what I did next was to first open the BEopt IDF with SketchUp to get the geometry, then save it as .OSM from SketchUp. When I open this file in OpenStudio, everything seems fine. But when I tried applying a measure by going to the measure tab and drag-drop them from the library, an error appears and OS crashed.(screenshot below)

I've tried several times. The same error pops up. Is there a way to solve this? Or is this kind of file conversion not recommended in terms of workflow? I wanted to do a small parametric analysis of a residential model using the OpenStudio PAT tool, and BEopt is very good at making a standard residential model. model.

Hi, I am trying to take advantage of BEopt's capability to rapidly generate residential building envelopes. The idea is this: I wanted to use BEopt to sketch the geometry, export it as IDF, then import it into OpenStudio and save it as .OSM file. Then there is an error that is related to "draft strictness". I figured it is because OpenStudio is quite limited in terms of importing IDF files, based on my research.

So what I did next was to first open the BEopt IDF with SketchUp to get the geometry, then save it as .OSM from SketchUp. When I open this file in OpenStudio, everything seems fine. But when I tried applying a measure by going to the measure tab and drag-drop them from the library, an error appears and OS crashed.(screenshot below)

I've tried several times. The same error pops up. Is there a way to solve this? Or is this kind of file conversion not recommended in terms of workflow? I wanted to do a small parametric analysis of a residential model using the OpenStudio PAT tool, and BEopt is very good at making a standard residential model.