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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: *.Rvi File Question

Hey there,

I was looking also for that exact thing and managed now to at least create one RVI-file that pulls the defined variables in the CSV-file.
However, since I am not really familiar with software programming topics like this 'batch-file' that, as I learned now, apparently is need for multiple RVI-/CSV-files.
I was looking into the installation folder of E+ and found several batch-files (Epl-run, RUNEP, RunEPlus, RunReadEso) which are editable with the notepad.

Can anybody please help me with the modifications of those and also, how it works exactly with creating multiple RVI-files. I already tried to give the one file a different name but then the CSV-file didn't come out after the simulation.

Thank you for your assistance,
Tobias



--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Crawley, Drury" <Drury.Crawley@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 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.
> 
> --- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <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
> > 
> > EnergyPlus WebSite: http://www.energyplus.gov
> <http://www.energyplus.gov> 
> > Owner: EnergyPlus_Support list
> > Member: EnergyPlus Development Team
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> >
> 
> 
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