Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Program/script/method to find total building height

[Edwin Lee <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, and for the number of floors, you could do all sorts of fun things...get the max and min z values for all zones, compare to find different ones, tabulate all the different ones, check for meaningful floor heights, etc.

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Edwin Lee <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On a terminal, with E+ v8, you could get the max z-coordinate for each zone in the idf using the following:

grep 'Zone Information' eplusout.eio | grep -v '^!' | cut -d, -f18

Then if you needed to get the maximum value of all zones, to get the max height of the entire building, 

grep 'Zone Information' eplusout.eio | grep -v '^!' | cut -d, -f18 | awk 'BEGIN {max = 0} {if ($1>max) max=$1} END {print max}'

Edwin

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, muehleisen <muehleisen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Hi all,

I've searched the group archive and googled to no avail. I'm trying to see if anyone has written a script or knows of a program that will extract basic building geometry info from an IDF file or one of the EnergyPlus output files. I thought I'd see if anyone else has solved this problem before I try write a script to do it myself.

I specifically want to be able to estimate the total building height and number of floors.

Thanks,

Ralph T Muehleisen
Principal Building Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

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Edwin Lee, PhD

Oklahoma State University

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Edwin Lee, PhD

Oklahoma State University

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