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When making a window using "spectral" data instead of "spectralaverage" data, Openstudio comes up with the error that there is no matching data set for the spectral data. I have this data set exported as an .idf file from Window7.2, but can't figure out how to bring it into Openstudio. Is there a way to import this data from within the OpenStudio program?

That's a much more clever way of doing it than I'd thought of! However my problem comes in at step 1; when modelling windows with a film Openstudio won't let me model a window with film on it- the parameters state that the window can only have either an exterior shade, another glass layer or an interior blind. None of these are quite what I want to do (as I want to model the glass and the film separately I can't just change the paramter values to act as though the glass and flm are one layer) The closest I've gotten is modelling the film as a glass layer that is 68 microns thick

Hi, I have a model where the desired outcome is to show the effectiveness of a window film on the thermal solar gains in a building, however I cannot quite figure out how to make a construction set which can be modelled. Is there a way to do this? I want to madel the performance of the glass (reflectance, emissivity, transmittance etc) and then place behind it a film layer with its own individual properties for emissivity, reflection and transmission of light and heat. I have been considering exporting the window construction as an .idf file out of WINDOW7.2, but am unsure if I would be able to properly import it into the Openstudio model. Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed, cheers