[Bldg-sim] IES-VE: Exporting CFD Result in a Text File

[Chris]

Wookey,
it is not an accurate statement to say that "the current situation can best
be described as poor on this front". Every simulation tool I use has a
feature where detailed reports on the input data are available.
Regards,
Chris

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 18:48, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> +++ norman wheatley [2010-10-04 11:40 -0700]:
> > G'Day,
> >
> > you cannot - and I'm not sure why you'd expect to be able to?
>
> It is very important that any tool or service allows you to get your
> data back out of it - i.e. it is not a one-way street allowing
> data/model entry but not extraction.
>
> Ideally open standards exist for such interchange, but if not some
> simple table-based data dump is infinitely better than nothing.
> Documentation of the tool's own file format is another way to achieve
> interoperability.
>
> I try very hard to avoid using tools where I have no way to get my
> data back out. My experience of the building simulation area is
> limited to date, but so far my impression is that the current
> situation can best be described as 'poor' on this front.
>
> Mostapha is quite right to expect some kind of open data export.
> Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where we could easily shift
> data back and forth between different modelling tools?
>
> Wookey
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Chris Flood BSc (Eng)
Senior Building Analyst & Energy Modeller
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