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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Open multiple IDF files together in OpenStudio Plug-in for SketchUp

There is already a user script to merge spaces into a model from an external model. It was intended to merge updated spaces from another version of the same model, but it can also be used for completely different models, but this would only be reasonable for a few small models, not hundreds.

I would recommend exporting each model as a DXF. It will maintain the group hierarchy and color of your current render mode. The pro version of SketchUp includes DXF export and there are also some free DXF export plugins. But if you just want zone geometry and not space geometry (if you had multiple spaces in a zone) you can just have EnergyPlus generate the DXF's for you at run time.

Once you have all o the DXF's you could write a script to import them all into one SketchUp file. I would expect someone may already have such a script or there may be another tool that does this out of the box.

David,

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