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2024-04-12 17:42:46 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in in SketchUp 2024

SketchUp 2024 upgraded the built in Ruby version to 3.2, the last release of the OpenStudio SDK was using Ruby 2.7 which

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2024-04-07 11:57:36 -0500 answered a question Openstudio on parallels windows 11 on mac

There is an issue filed with the OpenStudio Application here https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplicatio

2024-04-07 11:44:38 -0500 commented question Why does FloorspaceJS mash every story together? Is there a way to fix this?

That looks like an error in the translation of the Floorplan file to OSM, possibly not accounting for the plenum height

2024-04-07 11:40:52 -0500 commented question Hello. I run my simulation on openstudio , it generates erro with exit code 1, no reports and I couldn't find the error file. Please , help me out

If your model was named "MyModel.osm" there would be a companion directory named "MyModel" next to the OSM file. There

2024-04-07 11:37:17 -0500 answered a question How can I generate an eQuest "parms" equivalent in OpenStudio?

The functionality to do parametric analyses and optimizations is in a separate tool, the Parametric Analysis Tool (PAT).

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2024-04-07 11:35:19 -0500 answered a question If the BCL page is down, which GitHub page/repo should I use to to obtain measures?

The list of repos indexed by the BCL is available at https://github.com/BuildingComponentLibrary/bcl-manifest/blob/devel

2024-03-16 18:48:42 -0500 commented answer Construction Sets Not Loading From Library

Hi @Kristine, I have a potential fix for this issue. If you are willing to try a test build to see if it is fixed that

2024-03-06 21:36:43 -0500 answered a question Crashing Issue in OpenStudio When Accessing Thermal Zone Tab

Moved this discussion to the GitHub issue https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/issues/686

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2024-03-02 21:34:10 -0500 commented question Openstudio Preview OSM issues related to "Face difference is self intersecting." How should I fix these errors?

You might need to edit some of your spaces so their footprints are simple convex polygons. For example, you could divid

2024-02-27 22:23:01 -0500 commented answer Construction Sets Not Loading From Library

Thanks for reporting the issue, we're working on a fix, we may have a patch to 1.7.0 if we can fix this.

2024-02-25 22:05:07 -0500 commented question Openstudio Preview OSM issues related to "Face difference is self intersecting." How should I fix these errors?

It's hard to tell exactly what is wrong without the floorplan.json file. However, there do seem to be some problematic

2024-02-25 12:07:00 -0500 answered a question Openstudio Python Measures

This would probably best be a question filed on the OpenStudio GitHub page. My understanding is that a specific version

2024-02-25 11:59:37 -0500 answered a question Construction Sets Not Loading From Library

I was able to reproduce this issue, I think it might be a bug in OpenStudio Application 1.7.0 related to the new search

2024-02-17 16:37:40 -0500 answered a question OSM File corrupted 4 previous files as wireframe.

An improvement to sort surfaces by size before drawing in SketchUp was added in the 1.7.0 version of the OpenStudio Sket

2023-12-29 00:30:21 -0500 commented question openstudio-sketchup-plugin Problem

Thanks for reporting this @kitty, I've added this issue on GitHub to track it https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/ope

2023-11-08 23:10:26 -0500 answered a question Show/Indicate Surface’s Normal Vector in Sketchup OpenStudio Plugin

Have you looked at the "Render by Surface Normal" option, https://openstudiocoalition.org/reference/sketchup_plugin_inte

2023-09-16 13:06:34 -0500 commented answer Window and door components are not placing on geometry in floorspace.js

This is the behavior I see. It is still a bug but there is a potential work around if you re-draw upper stories by trac

2023-09-16 13:05:42 -0500 commented question Window and door components are not placing on geometry in floorspace.js

Reported as a bug at https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/issues/632

2023-09-15 21:13:47 -0500 commented answer Access the openstudio application measure path

Can you give some more information about what this file is used for? Does the user need to modify it? What type of inf

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2023-09-10 21:49:11 -0500 answered a question Access the openstudio application measure path

What are you trying to do lzwang26? The OpenStudio Application does copy all the measures in your current model to a te

2023-08-12 22:13:54 -0500 commented question Cannot Load BCL Material into Model

Do you see the BCL materials in your library? If you see them, can you grab them and attempt to drag into your model?

2023-08-12 22:12:26 -0500 commented question Why do my floorplans in the geometry tab/floorspace.js disappear? My bar turns from orange to red.

What type of operation are you trying to do when the issue occurs?

2023-08-12 22:02:29 -0500 answered a question Sketchup 2021 doesn't work with OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in 1.6.0

If you go to the SketchUp Menu Extensions->OpenStudio->Preferences you will see an option to set the "OpenStudio R

2023-08-12 13:52:28 -0500 answered a question COULD NOT FIND OR DOWNLOAD OPENSTUDIO RESULTS MEASURE ERROR 3.6.1 - 1.6.0

This issue was reported at https://github.com/openstudiocoalition/OpenStudioApplication/issues/617. It was caused by the

2023-08-12 13:45:16 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio BCL API Issues

I reported this issue at https://github.com/BuildingComponentLibrary/bcl-manifest/issues/27 and the issue isn't closed b

2023-02-28 21:20:27 -0500 edited answer Alternatives to Dview

For DView, the releases are hosted on GitHub: DView 1.0.0 - https://github.com/NREL/wex/releases/tag/v1.0.0 DView 1.2.

2023-02-28 21:19:24 -0500 answered a question Alternatives to Dview

For DView, the releases are hosted on GitHub: DView 1.0.0 https://github.com/NREL/wex/releases/tag/v1.0.0 DView 1.2.0

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2023-02-27 21:11:05 -0500 edited answer Has anybody tried to install EnergyPlus on a server ?

Depending on what you are trying to do these docker container repos might be directly usable for you or at least give yo

2023-02-27 21:10:07 -0500 answered a question Has anybody tried to install EnergyPlus on a server ?

Depending on what you are trying to do these docker container repos might be directly usable for you or at least give yo

2023-02-27 21:05:29 -0500 commented question Alternatives to Dview

Can you close https://unmethours.com/question/88333/alternatives-to-dview/ as a duplicate question

2023-02-27 21:04:46 -0500 commented question Alternatives to Dview

The installer used to be available at https://github.com/NREL/wex/releases/tag/v1.0.0. I asked on this https://github.co

2023-02-07 21:47:52 -0500 commented question OpenStudio 3.4.0 Python subsurface intersect/match

The SketchUp Surface Matching tool uses theSketchUp API to do intersections rather than the OpenStudio SDK. Unfortunate

2023-02-07 21:40:35 -0500 answered a question how to link openstudio sdk with visual studio code

The OpenStudio SDK installer can install components for a C++ API, C# API, Ruby API, or Python. Depending on which prog

2023-02-05 19:32:20 -0500 commented answer OpenStudio 3.4.0 Python subsurface intersect/match

Yeah, those are the types of log messages I thought might be useful. Here is a link to the FileLogSink class. Here is t

2023-02-05 19:31:35 -0500 commented answer OpenStudio 3.4.0 Python subsurface intersect/match

Yeah, those are the types of log messages I thought might be useful. Here is a link to the [FileLogSink] (https://github

2023-02-05 19:30:56 -0500 commented answer OpenStudio 3.4.0 Python subsurface intersect/match

Yeah, those are the types of log messages I thought might be useful. Here is a link to the FileLogSink [https://github.c

2023-02-05 18:19:43 -0500 commented question Openstudio is installed but OS file doesn't open

Did you upgrade your OSM files to version 3.2.5? After upgrading an OSM file from 3.2.0 to 3.2.5 you might not be able

2023-02-05 18:16:20 -0500 commented question Openstudio is installed but OS file doesn't open

Did you upgrade your OSM files to version 3.2.5? After upgrading an OSM file

2023-02-05 18:01:19 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio 3.4.0 Python subsurface intersect/match

First of all, that sounds like a really cool project Matt! I hope you may decide to make this available, I know many pe

2023-02-05 17:29:04 -0500 commented question why is the IDF not imported into the OpenStudio SketchUp plug-in after updating EnergyPlus versions

What version of the OpenStudio SketchUp Plug-in and OpenStudio Application are you using? It is possible your version o

2023-02-05 17:22:23 -0500 commented question how to link openstudio sdk with visual studio code

You want to link the OpenStudio SDK with a C++ project in Visual Studio, is that right? What language is your code writ

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2023-02-05 17:21:12 -0500 answered a question LoadError: irb require 'openstudio'

You need to make it so openstudio.rb is in your Ruby search path. There are several ways to do this. You can set the RU

2023-01-13 20:17:08 -0500 answered a question open studio input file errors and warning

The ProgramControl object is fairly advanced. Your model has a default value for "Number of Threads Allowed" so the war