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Show Inherited Construction in Inspector

This is really just a suggestion for a 'nice to have' feature in the inspector in the OpenStudio Sketchup plugin. I think it would be nice to be able to tell two things from the inspector for a surface that is inheriting a construction from a construction set:

  1. Where the surface is inheriting its construction from &
  2. What the surface is inheriting.

I know that you can view if a surface has inherited a construction or if it is hard-assigned via the Render by Construction option in Sketchup (see this post), and via other reports once you've run the model, but it would be nice to see on the fly what construction will be used in the energyplus simulation, without having to either: a) go into OpenStudio and check the construction set make-up or b) run the simulation.

Thoughts?

Show Inherited Construction in Inspector

This is really just a suggestion for a 'nice to have' feature in the inspector in the OpenStudio Sketchup plugin. I think it would be nice to be able to tell two things from the inspector for a surface that is inheriting a construction from a construction set:

  1. Where the surface is inheriting its construction from &
  2. What the surface is inheriting.

I know that you can view if a surface has inherited a construction or if it is hard-assigned via the Render by Construction option in Sketchup (see this post), and via other reports once you've run the model, but it would be nice to see on the fly what construction will be used in the energyplus simulation, without having to either: a) go into OpenStudio and check the construction set make-up or b) run the simulation.

Thoughts?