Ralph,
Here's a little awk script to do part of what you want. It parses the eio file and looks for all lines beginning with " Zone Information", after which it prints the zone name, min Zone Z, and max Zone Z, and stores the min and max Z for the building. When it gets to the end of the file, it then prints the building min and max Z. max Z - min Z should be the building height. Getting the number of floors is a bit more complicated, because there are ZONE-LIST MULTIPLIERS, as well as plenums. I've also printed out the ZONE-LIST MULTIPLIER for each zone, and I'm sure with a little more work, it would be possible to calculate the number of floors as well.
Joe
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On 6/6/2013 9:27 AM, muehleisen 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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