Comments on: Energyplus 101: Part 2 – Construction Materials

By: Ioana Stan

Ioana Stan — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:40:00 +0000

Wow.. Interesting.. Thank you for that! -- Best Regards, Ioana Stan CEO SENIOR Tigla Metalica Iasi Oferta Tigla Metalica Case din lemn rotund

By: openRevit.com

openRevit.com — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:36:00 +0000

i completely agree. in practice i do not use 3rd party software to export my analytical models. i always start from scratch which gives me the flexibility to zone and create the model in a way that makes simulation runtime and modifications quicker.

By: Reza Moshksar

Reza Moshksar — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:44:00 +0000

in my opinion it is better you make your object directly in sketchup because at first in energy plus you face to many errors that some of them came from ecotect bugs!

By: Ignacio Fajardo

Ignacio Fajardo — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:11:00 +0000

Thanks Alan for your answer, now I understand how to modify all elements in the IDF Editor, and is great. I only have to deal with the warnings of sereve errors that I have in EPlus and then the simulation finish with a “Fatal error detected”. I gonna go back into my model in Revit, and then in Ecotect to resolve the warnings.

Later I´m gonna publish my result.
Again thanks so much for the tutorials.

By: openRevit.com

openRevit.com — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:56:00 +0000

I understand what you are saying and as far as I know digging as far down as the material properties is not possible within openStudio. In order to view and edit the material properties you would need to do this inside the IDF editor or in a text editor. You would be looking for the construction name, which will also list the “build-up” of materials. Then you can refer back to the material definitions and their respective thermal properties. Have a look at the available construction DataSet in your installation path something like EnergyplusV6-0-0DataSetsASHRAE_2005_HOF_Materials.idf << there are some good examples and it shows how the definitions are used.

By: Ignacio Fajardo

Ignacio Fajardo — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:53:00 +0000

I understand the changes that you have done, but the changes were made in the “NewFileTemplate”?. How can I load to program again?

I have a big confusion about … because I Import from Revit (GBXml) to Ecotect, and then I open the file in Skechtup (by OpenStudio IDF file) and in the “Default Constructions” (first frame in appears) I have the Materials of each elements (Ecotect materials) to choose. And I can´t find were does materials properties are to changes de values… The same thing happens with loads, when I made a new one (New Stub) I can´t find the path to modify the properties, I´m doing something wrong?

I fell a litle confuse trying to understand how Energyplus works.
Best regards, thanks!

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