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Hi all,

I am trying to run a simple simulation of a building to confirm that my software is set up correctly, but cannot seem to get the output files from the simulation.

I am using Euclid 0.9.3 plug-in with Sketchup Make 17.3.116 and EnergyPlus 8.7.0 and Atom 1.44.0 as my text editor, all on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.6

I am trying to run the simulation through the Euclid extension which shows a run settings menu. When I select run a dialog comes up from Sketchup saying that "EnergyPlus will be launched in a new instance of the Terminal application. After the simulation is finished you must quit out of the Terminal application before any Actions on Completion will be started." This seemed par for the course given the Legacy OpenStudio documentation that indicated this would have to be done. Once the terminal application, in my case is Atom, opens and displays a short script file that says "the simulation is now finished. You must quit out of this terminal application."

I do so and once I do another dialog comes up saying: cannot find the program "Applications/EnergyPlus-8-7-0/readvars unable to generate csv file." And this is the final message I receive. I checked all around but cannot see any other output files from the simulation that has supposedly run. I tried to go under the hood into the EnergyPlus folder to find the readvars function and I too could not find it, but I did find a function called runreadvars. I changed the name on a whim and then ran the simulation again, and had all the same messages except for the last dialog, which did not pop up. But however the directory that the idf file and the epw file are saved to still lacks any output files, suggesting that the readvars function is still failing in some way.

I have no experience with this software and it seems very close to functioning correctly, so I am at a loss as to how to troubleshoot it. Any help would be greatly apprectiated.

-Jeremy

Hi all,

I am trying to run a simple simulation of a building to confirm that my software is set up correctly, but cannot seem to get the output files from the simulation.

I am using Euclid 0.9.3 plug-in with Sketchup Make 17.3.116 and EnergyPlus 8.7.0 and Atom 1.44.0 as my text editor, all on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.6

I am trying to run the simulation through the Euclid extension which shows a run settings menu. When I select run a dialog comes up from Sketchup saying that "EnergyPlus will be launched in a new instance of the Terminal application. After the simulation is finished you must quit out of the Terminal application before any Actions on Completion will be started." This seemed par for the course given the Legacy OpenStudio documentation that indicated this would have to be done. Once the terminal application, in my case is Atom, opens and displays a short script file that says "the simulation is now finished. You must quit out of this terminal application."

I do so and once I do another dialog comes up saying: cannot find the program "Applications/EnergyPlus-8-7-0/readvars unable to generate csv file." And this is the final message I receive. I checked all around but cannot see any other output files from the simulation that has supposedly run. I tried to go under the hood into the EnergyPlus folder to find the readvars function and I too could not find it, but I did find a function called runreadvars. I changed the name on a whim and then ran the simulation again, and had all the same messages except for the last dialog, which did not pop up. But however the directory that the idf file and the epw file are saved to still lacks any output files, suggesting that the readvars function is still failing in some way.

I have no experience with this software and it seems very close to functioning correctly, so I am at a loss as to how to troubleshoot it. Any help would be greatly apprectiated.

-Jeremy

Hi all,

I am trying to run a simple simulation of a building to confirm that my software is set up correctly, but cannot seem to get the output files from the simulation.

I am using Euclid 0.9.3 plug-in with Sketchup Make 17.3.116 and EnergyPlus 8.7.0 and Atom 1.44.0 as my text editor, all on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.6

I am trying to run the simulation through the Euclid extension which shows a run settings menu. When I select run a dialog comes up from Sketchup saying that "EnergyPlus will be launched in a new instance of the Terminal application. After the simulation is finished you must quit out of the Terminal application before any Actions on Completion will be started." This seemed par for the course given the Legacy OpenStudio documentation that indicated this would have to be done. Once the terminal application, in my case is Atom, opens and displays a short script file that says "the simulation is now finished. You must quit out of this terminal application."

I do so and once I do another dialog comes up saying: cannot find the program "Applications/EnergyPlus-8-7-0/readvars unable to generate csv file." And this is the final message I receive. I checked all around but cannot see any other output files from the simulation that has supposedly run. I tried to go under the hood into the EnergyPlus folder to find the readvars function and I too could not find it, but I did find a function called runreadvars. I changed the name on a whim and then ran the simulation again, and had all the same messages except for the last dialog, which did not pop up. But however the directory that the idf file and the epw file are saved to still lacks any output files, suggesting that the readvars function is still failing in some way.

I have no experience with this software and it seems very close to functioning correctly, so I am at a loss as to how to troubleshoot it. Any help would be greatly apprectiated.

-Jeremy

Hi all,

I am trying to run a simple simulation of a building to confirm that my software is set up correctly, but cannot seem to get the output files from the simulation.

I am using Euclid 0.9.3 plug-in with Sketchup Make 17.3.116 and EnergyPlus 8.7.0 and Atom 1.44.0 as my text editor, all on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.6

I am trying to run the simulation through the Euclid extension which shows a run settings menu. When I select run a dialog comes up from Sketchup saying that "EnergyPlus will be launched in a new instance of the Terminal application. After the simulation is finished you must quit out of the Terminal application before any Actions on Completion will be started." This seemed par for the course given the Legacy OpenStudio documentation that indicated this would have to be done. Once the terminal application, in my case is Atom, opens and displays a short script file that says "the simulation is now finished. You must quit out of this terminal application."

I do so and once I do another dialog comes up saying: cannot find the program "Applications/EnergyPlus-8-7-0/readvars unable to generate csv file." And this is the final message I receive. I checked all around but cannot see any other output files from the simulation that has supposedly run. I tried to go under the hood into the EnergyPlus folder to find the readvars function and I too could not find it, but I did find a function called runreadvars. I changed the name on a whim and then ran the simulation again, and had all the same messages except for the last dialog, which did not pop up. But however the directory that the idf file and the epw file are saved to still lacks any output files, suggesting that the readvars function is still failing in some way.

I have no experience with this software and it seems very close to functioning correctly, so I am at a loss as to how to troubleshoot it. Any help would be greatly apprectiated.

-Jeremy