[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: loading weather data files, and other seemingly basic tasks.

["Eric" <erock77@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mike,
The weather file thing seems obvious now. 

So how do you load in material datasets to an existing idf profile?


--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Michael J. Witte" 
<mjwitte@g...> wrote:
> At www.energyplus.gov, there are hundreds of weather files in epw 
format.  Add 
> one or more RunPeriod objects to you idf file to specify a range of 
dates to be 
> simulated from a weather file.  Also, make sure that the Run 
Control objects is 
> set for "Do the weather file simulation=Yes".  Then in EP-Launch, 
select the 
> desired weather file prior to running the simulation.
> 
> In the EnergyPlus...\Datasets folder, you will find idf files 
containing many 
> predefined objects for materials, constructions, etc.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 20 Sep 2004, at 23:53, Eric wrote:
> 
> > I'm somewhat new to the world of energy modeling, I'm having 
trouble 
> > finding out how to load and use weather files. I downloaded a 
site 
> > which gave me 10 or so IWC files. Could you please tell me how to 
> > incorporate them into idfeditor?
> > 
> > Also is there any easier way to load in material and light data 
other 
> > than searching for values and typing them in manually? I've 
looked 
> > into using designbuilder which seems to have some preloaded data, 
but 
> > the program doesn't look quite developed enough to meet our needs 
> > yet. It does look promising for the future though.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> ========================================================
> Michael J. Witte, GARD Analytics, Inc.
> EnergyPlus Testing and Support      
> EnergyPlus-Support@g...



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