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

[Edwin Lee <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Edwin: 

... for the number of floors, you could do all sorts of fun things ...

Ralph:

... Figuring out the number of floors is messy because ...

Messy, fun, what's the difference? :)  I definitely see your point of the added complexity with plenum spaces and regular zones though...good luck everyone!

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Ralph Muehleisen <muehleisen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Great use of grep/cut  Edwin!   I have to do a few mods since I'm running UnxUtils under Windows and don't have awk, but your grep/cut is a short one-liner to extract the max values.

Figuring out the number of floors is messy because you need to lump plenum spaces with room spaces.

Thanks for posting!

Ralph

Ralph Muehleisen, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP, FASA, INCE Bd. Cert.

Principal Building Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Adjunct Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:44 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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