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RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: *.Rvi File Question
Mike,
I'm doing exactly that--creating individual RVIs for different outputs
and meter results. It's fairly simple to create a modified batch file to
run this--after the simulation is completed. I can share my modified
batch file if you're interested. I have about 20 separate RVIs and MVIs
(of course tailored to the IDFs I'm running).
Dru
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From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Micheal
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:07 PM
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: *.Rvi File Question
Thank for the quick response. I thought this would be the case.
I have a follow-up question. Can you run RunReadvarsESO.exe multiple
times? For example have several RVI files with "sets" of variables
like environment, walls, zones, systems and report to multiple *.csv
files. Also could use separate time frames in the *.rvi files. Using
this methodology I would hope I could import the various *.csv sets
into excel on different worksheets and use the data to create
reports in my own format.
A second question is do you know what happens if the *.rvi variable
is not present? For example if I where to enforce a generic naming
convention (such as wall1, wall2, ...) and not use all the names.
Would I just get the warning "The following variable were requested
but not generated". Do you know if it would "skip" the column to
maintain an absolute relationship or delete the non-existent
variable column to create a compact table with no "empty" columns?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
PS: I have and use XESOView which I find to be a very good program.
The problem I run into is that it doesn't allow looking at (charting
or reporting) multiple variables at the same time. Also, the company
I work for has quite a few "oldtimers" which I need to produce
outputs formatted in similar ways to their currently used methods
(CHVAC, Trace, and even hand calculated CLTD!) so that they can
better understand what is going on. The buildings we tend to model
are simple and very similar to one another (warehouses, maintenance
buildings, mechanical buildings, etc. for electric power plants). I
plan on masking most of the input and output of EPlus in a
more "user friendly" format using Excel hense all the questions
above.
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<mailto:EnergyPlus_Support%40yahoogroups.com> , Linda Lawrie
<lklawrie@...> wrote:
>
> You must use the rvi file for this purpose. Whatever you put in
> report variables, get shoved out to the eso file (or in case of
> meters also the .mtr file) as they "come up" in the simulation.
The
> actual order for that would be shown in the first part of the eso
> file (before the part that says "End of Data Dictionary".
>
> In the rvi file, you can either specify the generic form of the
> report variable, e.g.:
>
> Zone/Sys Air Temperature
> Zone/Sys Sensible Heating Energy
> Zone/Sys Sensible Cooling Energy
>
> or be really specific:
> Zone 1:Zone/Sys Air Temperature
> Zone 1:Zone/Sys Sensible Heating Energy
> Zone 1:Zone/Sys Sensible Cooling Energy
>
> The first instance will give you all the zones, Zone/Sys Air
> Temperature, followed by all the Zones, Zone/Sys Sensible Heating
> Energy, etc. whereas the second will put the 3 variables by zone.
>
> There are also ways of only getting out the hourly or monthly
values
> in a csv file even though the eso file may contain multiple hourly
> and monthly mixed.
>
> There is also the utility XESOView (not part of the EnergyPlus
> install) but you can find out about it on either the yahoo groups
> website or the energyplus.gov website. I don't know if it would
be
> suitable for your purposes or not.
>
>
> Linda
>
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