[Equest-users] Change Space and Zone Names Macro

[Jeremy McClanathan]

Just thought I would chime in on the space naming conversation with another option.  I use a macro to rename spaces and zones in excel once the model is in detailed edit mode.  If you are interested in checking it out, you can download it from:  http://www.esimforums.com/equest/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=118  It will only work in excel 2007 and above.  Make sure to save a copy of your model before you try it.  This macro has not been thoroughly tested on other computers.

Jeremy


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From: Pasha Korber-Gonzalez [mailto:pasha.pkconsulting at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:51 AM
To: Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr.
Cc: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Custom zone names in DD Wizards

Hi--I use this feature all the time in the wizard and it's the BEST!

A couple notes from my experiences:

 *   yes you can change the zones & plenum names too---at the bottom of the window (look at Nick's screen shot) where it has a dropdown box for "spaces" you can go and select "zones" and then change the name there.  (This is inconvenient in a way to have to name things twice, but remember that the thermal zones and spaces are two separate things in DOE-2, thus we have no choice but to name them twice.)
 *   You can use the copy paste function when doing the custom naming and I found that using this helps to streamline my 'custom names' since I have to type them individually for each space and each zone.
 *   I have had the function freeze up on me a couple of times, and I found that this happened because I had too many zones and I was doing too many things on my computer (besides eQuest) that the memory cache froze up and thus caused my error in my model file.  I believe it actually corrupted my file a couple of times, but THank GOD for 'save-as' and I could revert to an earlier copy of my file.
 *   This is the best place to do the custom naming if you remember to do it while you are in wizard mode.  Remember that the spaces and zones cannot have the exact same names, there has to be a unique identifier between these.  I usually use the letter "Z" somewehre in the zone name.  Or you can just remove the space characters in the zone name and use the same name as the space (sans the spaces).
I encourage anyone to use this function all the time because using custom space/zone names always helps me navigate through my inputs faster if I am familiar with the zone names.  When you do the custom naming be mindful of the number of zones you have in your model  (too many is not a good thing.)  AND becareful to not run too many other programs in the background when you are doing the custom naming--this is when I found the program to freeze up the most.  If I let eQuest have the "stage" and shut down my outlook, etc then I don't have the issues of the program freezing.

Feel free to email or call if anyone has questions/comments about my experience using this feature.

Cheers,
Pasha

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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr. <poleary1969 at gmail.com<mailto:poleary1969 at gmail.com>> wrote:
i've done it.  it worked pretty well in wizard mode.  i don't recall it actually helping so much in detailed mode but i could be misremembering that part.

On 9/12/11 8:54 AM, Nick Caton wrote:
Has anyone played with zone name templates or the following screen enough to make custom zone naming a relatively time-efficient exercise?

You get here clicking the 'Zone names and characteristics' button on the 2nd screen.

Maybe this is only a concept, but the idea of inputting a tag like "OFFICE 123" in this screen, then having eQuest automatically apply that tag to the space/ corresponding plenum and corresponding zones all in one step sure seems attractive!

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