http://openrevit.com discussions on buildings, energy, software and all things bim Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:02:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://openrevit.com/2012/01/python-for-energy-modelers-part-2-simple-pre-processing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=python-for-energy-modelers-part-2-simple-pre-processing http://openrevit.com/2012/01/python-for-energy-modelers-part-2-simple-pre-processing/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:24:25 +0000 Marcus Jones http://openrevit.com/?p=392 introduction by Clayton Miller, let's dig in and see how easy and powerful it is to mix a little Python into your simulation workflow! Computers are fantastic at performing repetitive tasks, let them handle the boring stuff so you can focus on creating better models and reports. Now think about your simulation tool as an engineer; many simulation tools have one main input file which is executed by the tool, and out come a bunch of results files. We can think of this like a black box model, where we are not so concerned about the inner details. In fact, this model can be generalized to many simulation tools important for energy analysis and building performance design. From personal experience I use this "ASCII text file input - text file output" black box model for EnergyPlus, TRNSYS, and Radiance. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a general way to modify input files and process our output files automatically? This is the subject of this blog series! Continue reading →]]> http://openrevit.com/2012/01/python-for-energy-modelers-part-2-simple-pre-processing/feed/ 1 http://openrevit.com/2012/01/python-for-energy-modelers-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=python-for-energy-modelers-part-1 http://openrevit.com/2012/01/python-for-energy-modelers-part-1/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:43:40 +0000 Clayton Miller http://openrevit.com/?p=382 Building Simulation 2011 conference in Sydney in November, I decided there just isn't a 'nudge' out there to push more engineers and energy analysts towards basic proficiency in high level programming languages such as Python and Ruby. This post will be the first in a series which will help the average engineer get started with scripting languages, build a few practical skills which are directly applicable to pre and post processing of data for modeling purposes, and go through a couple of these scenarios from start to finish. I have engaged the assistance of energy modeling extraordinaire Marcus Jones to help out with future posts on the simulation scenarios which this stuff can be useful for. 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