Good question! And also for what purpose do you intend to use simulation? If for research, definitely E+.
I think there is no question that E+ is the best supported building simulation engine. You can find a range of third party GUIs and tools that works with E+. Someone sent me a link just now: Rhinoceros (a 3D modelling software package) now supports creating E+ input files - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbo0uM9mj4&feature=youtube_gdata_player, amazing! (By the way, I have no link with Rhino...)
Cheers,
Yi
Dr Yi Zhang
IESD, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Design Builder USA
Sent: Thu 15/03/2012 10:12
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Which software to use?
Alex,
If I where you I might opt for open studio, or design builder (possibly start with the free trial)
eQuest is to easy, and TRNSYS is to time consuming in my experience, but I have not yet explored IES VE to the point that I can advise.. (if you do please let me know your experience) Question, what are you looking to simulate?
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:58 AM, regen555 <ap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good morning,
I may be asking this in a 'biased' forum, but hopefully many of you will be familiar with more than one simulation package.
I know very little about building simulation programs and would like to learn use one of them for a thesis project.
If you were to start afresh, would you recommend me I learn to use EnergyPlus or another package? (IES-VE comes to mind).
I know how to use Sketchup quite well.
Thank you for your advice, much appreciated.
regards
Alex
Jeremiah D. Crossett
Energy Modeling Consultant
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