| In a part of my research I did the same thing, not hundred of thousands but around 400 variations. let me share following points which may be helpful setting up the problem. 1- Need to be vary clear about the goal of the results and how will you handle the output data. 2- If you are talking of a 10 variable combinations it can go to around 10 factorial in numbers. 3- I was trying to focus of envelop and trying to edit envelop and various envelop area to volume ratios. 4-The out come was still limited to some very specific geometries. I was not able to come up with
a generalization of creating incremental geometry form. But yes from one type of geometry to other type, we were able to create stepped intermediate geometries. Still that doesn't help as conquering an architects mind with Logical rules is still out of reach of current mathematical advancements. 5- Since energy plus data structure is very standard, and once you know the IDD structure of the particular version, You can use a very fine text editing script known as Perl which is fast and probably easy to learn too to apply your incremental logic and create 1000s of idf files. This can even be used in combination with parametric objects to be more efficient. What I can offer you is that, if currently you have those variable with
increment specifications, which you want to run, I can get an energy plus parametric code ready for you to run it over and check. ----------------------------------------------------------------- SMH Adil --- On Wed, 25/7/12, hitehrewowwww <kamilien1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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