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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
6:26 AM
To:
Subject: [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@
>
> 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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> [mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: EnergyPlus_Support@
> Subject: [EnergyPlus_
>
>
>
> Thank for the quick response. I thought this would be the case.
>
> I have a follow-up question. Can you run RunReadvarsESO.
> 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@
> <mailto:EnergyPlus_
> <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.energypl
> <http://www.energypl
> > Owner: EnergyPlus_Support list
> > Member: EnergyPlus Development Team
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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