Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] parametric run: the saga continues

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a bug.

congratulations on finding a work around.

I'll log a defect

At 03:57 PM 8/27/2010, Ery Djunaedy wrote:
> All,
>
> I tried to run a parametric run -- in M$-Windows this time. What I want
> to do is to change the material so that it will have different values of
> thermal mass. The snippet is as follows:
>
> *********************
> Material,M01,MediumRough,0.1016,0.89,1920,790;
> Material,M02,MediumRough,0.1524,0.49,512,880;
> Material,M03,MediumRough,0.2032,0.5,464,880;
>
> Parametric:SetValueForRun,
>     
> $floorMaterial,              
> !- Parameter Name
>     
> M01,                 
> !- Value for run 1
>     
> M02,                 
> !- Value for run 2
>     
> M03;                 
> !- Value for run 3
>
> Construction,
>      Mass
> Floor,             
> !- Name
>      =$floorMaterial;  !- Layer 3
> *********************
>
> If I run that, the simulation will stop after the parametric 
> preprocessor with a pop-up window that says:
> "No runs are enabled in the parametric input file"
>
> Of course, the error message is wrong. There are parametric runs
> defined.
>
> Solution: Just move the material objects below the parametric object.
> The simulations will then run smoothly.
>
> I would never have guessed that this is the solution because the manual
> says that the order of parametric objects (as with the other objects in
> EnergyPlus) is not important. Any object can be located anywhere in the
> IDF file.
>
> Nope, as it turns out, not in the case of parametric runs. Bug?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ery
>
>
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