DOE-2 INP file to Radiance RAD file

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Dear all,

Has anyone tried to utilize geometry information from an existing
eQUEST/DOE-2 model's input file to create geometry for a Radiance
daylighting model in the *.RAD file format? (without having to build the
geometry again from scratch I mean)

Theoretically I could come up with the following route but haven't tested it
yet:
Export *.INP to *.IDF using DrawBDL ?> open the IDF file using OpenStudio in
Sketch UP --> export to Radiance file format *.RAD using the Sketch Up
plugin SU2RAD.

Any ideas? Thanks,

Ramana Koti

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The issue that arises is DOE2 geometry is only 2D. So if DrawBDL is not a
2D to 3D converter you would need to write a ruby subscript in order to
accommodate. Once you can get the inp* geometry to idf* (2D to 3D) it
should be no problem. There might be something on the internet that may do
such a thing, but programmers that know how do to such a thing would
probably only take a few days or less to figure it out.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ramana Koti < ramana.koti at gmail.com> To: Bldg-Sim Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:46:40 -0700

- Subject: [Bldg-sim] DOE-2 INP file to Radiance RAD file

Dear all,

Has anyone tried to utilize geometry information from an existing
eQUEST/DOE-2 model's input file to create geometry for a Radiance
daylighting model in the *.RAD file format? (without having to build the
geometry again from scratch I mean)

Theoretically I could come up with the following route but haven't tested it
yet:
Export *.INP to *.IDF using DrawBDL ?> open the IDF file using OpenStudio in
Sketch UP --> export to Radiance file format *.RAD using the Sketch Up
plugin SU2RAD.

Any ideas? Thanks,

Ramana Koti

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Hello everyone.

If there is enough interest in this file format I could add an import option
to SU2RAD at some point.
I have not been able to get information about this format from the web site
so I can't tell how much
work this would be or how long it would take me.

There is also a plug in for gbXML that could be used to load geometry into
Sketchup:

http://sketchup.google.com/green/analysis.html

Regards,

Thomas

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