I am running a simulation for a single-story building on Openstudio v 1.12, I am facing two problems:
The geometry has two (2) small rectangular domes, when modelling the geometry using Sketchup 2016 and openstudio plugin, at the beginning the dome looks okay being opened to below, however, when I close the file and reopen it again, I find that a new subsurface is created as a skylight and the dome is no longer open to below. What would be the best way to create the simple dome being open to below?
When I open the .OSM file using openstudio, running the simulation with only considering cooling thermostat setpoint temperature gives me a more realistic results in terms of energy consumption (comparing to actual bills). However, I came to know that I need to use dual setpoint for the openstudio v1.12, so by setting the cooling setpoint as 21 C and the heating as 0 C (or any other value) the energy consumption results are 4 times greater.
I wanted to know what setpoint temperature the software is using for cooling, so from the energyplus output file (eplustbl.htm) I found that the thermostat Setpoint and Indoor temperature at peak load is 0 C for the case when I do not consider adding heating setpoint while it was showing 21 C when I considered that. My question is that, what is the default cooling setpoint that openstudio used when I didn't consider the heating setpoint (Dual setpoint)? and any suggestions to resolve the problem??
It seems that I cannot upload a file because I am a new member.
Thank you !
