[Equest-users] help with macros?

[James Hansen]

I'm sorry to spam the board with my macro questions, but if anyone has a
spare minute, would they mind inserting this command into a test INP
file of theirs (right after the INPUT ..) line, and run it, and tell me
if it crashes eQuest?

 

##set1 dumb_macros "not working"

 

No matter what I name the macro name ("dumb_macros" in this case), and
no matter what I have as the value (text, number, etc), whenever I open
the project file from eQuest, it goes thru the entire loading of the BDL
with no errors, but then simply terminates the program without any error
messages or anything.

 

I've tried the ##set1, ##def, and ##def1 commands, and none seem to
work.

 

I don't even have to reference the macro name in the body of the input
file for it to crash - simply defining it does that.

 

I've tried with v3.63 and v3.61, and it crashes in both versions.

 

Am I defining the macros in the wrong location?

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James
Hansen
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 1:01 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] help with macros?

 

Doug and Brian,

 

Thanks for your recommendations - unfortunately neither of them worked
(using ##set1 and removing quotes).

 

Here is the "example" directly from the DOE2 pdf:

 

 

 

 

I made a very similar macro, except defined:

 

##def GHTclassify

 

  CONDITIONED

  PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"

 

##enddef

 

And used the command line 

 

ZONE-TYPE        = GHTclassify[]

 

With the thought that the result should be equivalent to:

 

ZONE-TYPE        = CONDITIONED

PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office"

 

Just like in the example.  But unfortunately, when I open the BDL file,
it shows the translated command as:

 

     *1502 *           "EL1 South Perim Spc (G.S1) - Office" = SPACE

     *1503 *           SHAPE            = POLYGON

     *1504 *           ZONE-TYPE        = GHTclassify[]

   .1*   9 *              PEOPLE-SCHEDULE = "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch -
Office"

   .1*  10 *  

     *1505 *           LIGHTING-SCHEDUL = ( "EL1 Bldg InsLt Sch" )

 

 

In other words, it's not pulling the "CONDITIONED" in to the zone-type
line as in the example, but it IS pulling in the People schedule.  Makes
no sense to me!

 

The only thing different in my case is I don't have the ".." in the
##def because I don't want this to end the space definition.

 

Any thoughts?

 

GHT Limited
James Hansen, PE, LEED AP

Senior Associate

1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 200

Arlington, VA  22201-4749

703-338-5754 (Cell)

703-243-1200 (Office)

703-276-1376 (Fax)

www.ghtltd.com <http://www.ghtltd.com/> 

 

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James
Hansen
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:51 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] help with macros?

 

I'm just getting started playing around with macros, and had a quick
question:

 

I current have a macro defined in my .inp file as follows:

 

##def GHTclassify

 

EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office

 

##enddef

 

I entered this directly after the first "INPUT .." line of the .inp
file.  Is this the correct place to define macros?  Does it matter?

 

Further down when I describe a space, I have the following:

 

"EL1 South Perim Spc (G.S1) - Office" = SPACE           

   SHAPE            = POLYGON

   ZONE-TYPE        = CONDITIONED

   PEOPLE-SCHEDULE  = "GHTclassify[]"

   //lots of info on lighting, equipment, infiltration, etc

   POLYGON          = "EL1 Space Polygon 1"

   LOCATION         = FLOOR-V1

   ..

 

The "EL1 Bldg Occup Sch - Office" is a valid annual schedule.

 

However, I'm getting an error that basically says GHTclassify was never
defined.

 

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  I thought I copied this perfectly out of
the DOE2 Topic section.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

GHT Limited
James Hansen, PE, LEED AP

Senior Associate

1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 200

Arlington, VA  22201-4749

703-338-5754 (Cell)

703-243-1200 (Office)

703-276-1376 (Fax)

www.ghtltd.com <http://www.ghtltd.com/> 

 

 

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