Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Possible problem with transition-V5-0-0-to-V6-0-0 ? Or with the reference buildings?

[Álvaro Fialho <alvarofialho@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried with two different viewers (eDrawings and dxfviewer-swing), and 
both showed the same problem (and only for these three big buildings, 
for the others everything was ok).



On 5/12/11 12:15 PM, Mário wrote:
> Hello Álvaro.
>
> How are you seeing the file in the DXF mode?
>
> MN
>
> --- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Álvaro Fialho<alvarofialho@...>  wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I wanted to play a bit with the "Commercial Reference Buildings"
>> (http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/commercial_initiative/reference_buildings.html),
>> but the available idf files are for EnergyPlus v5.
>>
>> I converted them to v6 using the transition-V5-0-0-to-V6-0-0 tool that
>> comes in the bin folder of the default MacOS EnergyPlus installation. It
>> seemed to work ok:
>>
>> alvaro$ /Applications/EnergyPlus-6-0-0/bin/transition-V5-0-0-to-V6-0-0
>> RefBldgLargeHotelPost1980_v1.3_5.0_5A_USA_IL_CHICAGO-OHARE.idf
>>    Transition Starting
>>    Transition 5.0 =>  6.0
>>    Processing Old IDD -- V5-0-0-Energy+.idd
>>    Processing New IDD -- V6-0-0-Energy+.idd
>>    Will create new full IDFs
>>    Will create new IDF lines with units where applicable
>>    Will create new IDF lines leaving blank incoming fields as blank (no
>> default fill)
>>     Report Variable Name file=Report Variables 5-0-0-031 to 6-0-0.csv
>>     not found.
>>    Processing IDF --
>> RefBldgLargeHotelPost1980_v1.3_5.0_5A_USA_IL_CHICAGO-OHARE.idf
>>
>>
>> But when visualizing the resulting DXF file, there are some "gaps"
>> between the different stores of the building, as you can see in the
>> figure attached. Exactly the same happened to other big buildings, such
>> as the LargeOfficePost and the MidRiseAppartment, while for many others
>> the model was ok.
>>
>> Would it be a problem with the "transition" tool? Or is it an error that
>> is already part of the original v5 model? I could verify this on my own,
>> but I couldn't find where to download previous versions of EnergyPlus.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Álvaro.
>>
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