[Bldg-sim] Recover eQuest file?

[Craig Simmons]

Worked perfectly. I just have to undo a few of the parametric changes from
the INP I used and it's ready to go.

 

It was definitely the BDL file that got messed up. It's related to the fact
that if you enter a value out of range in eQuest then choose the wrong
option in the warning message, eQuest deletes the item associated with the
error (not my favorite eQuest quirk). In this case the error applied to all
of my systems. So, eQuest deleted all of the systems and with them went all
zones and plant equipment. I opened the BDL in a text editor and it was
wiped clean from the end of the Building Shell section down.

 

Thanks for the tip Brian. I will definitely remember this trick.

 

Craig

 

From: Carol Gardner [mailto:cmg750 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:01 PM
To: bfountain at greensim.com
Cc: Craig Simmons; bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Recover eQuest file?

 

Thanks, Brian. Please let us know if this works for you, Craig. If it
doesn't I would take a look at the .pd2 file. That is maybe where something
went wrong.
Regards,
Carol

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:22 AM, B. Fountain <bfountain at greensim.com> wrote:

I would suggest trying the following:

- start with a new, blank project file.  To do this, start a new project,
select a wizard (either SD or DD) then hit the red "x" instead of finish.
That should put you in the detailed interface with a blank project.

- now simply "file import" one of the .inp files.

You will lose all the info in the .pd2 which is the original wizard data,
the CAD file link and the weather file setting (so you will need to
reselect the weather file).  However, all of your detailed interface data
should be there.

Your parametric run data is in a .prd text file so once your new file is
saved, you may be able to copy & rename the .prd to the new "project file
anme".prd and recover your parametric run info as well.

This has saved me quite a few times.

Good luck.

Brian


> Due to an error in a parametric run eQuest wiped out everything but the
> Building Shell components in the BDL file of a model I am working on.
> Because I have been doing so many parametric runs I have tons of INP files
> that have everything in them. I have similar back-ups that I could use but
> unfortunately none from today, meaning I'd need to redo quite a bit.
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> Is there any way to create a BDL from an INP?
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> The information seems like it's there, just not in the right format.
> Primarily the BDL has specific references to curves that the INP does not
> have, but all the curves in this model are defaults.
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> Craig
>

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