Occupancy Scedules - 2 question

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Dear equest users,
thank you all for your previous answers.

I have following considerations.

1) When tryinq to import the Occupancy schedules in the Spreadsheet with
copy paste from excel, it doesn't work. Athough the data is copied, then it
is lost.

The only way to insert the scedules are from this tab.

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Do you have any suggestions, about faster import of scedules?
Do you have come across the same issue in the spreadsheet tab?

2) How can I export the scedules I have already created in a .inp file to
use them in another .inp file?

Thank you very much

Konstantina Kalliakoudi
Mechanical Engineer, ?.sc
www.khmoe.gr

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Hi Konstantina,

The way that i am going to suggest is the .inp file version import.
For this one is required have the whole .inp file of some done project.
Then the thing required is to delete the unnecessary data.
Now as an example in the following snapshot one is required to have Day,
Week and Annual data only so as to have the required notepad working for
you:

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As per following snapshot one is required to end the Notepad data with the
two dots as shown aftermath.

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Also one is required to import the .inp schedule in eQUEST with the
following option.

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In eQUEST one can import the .inp file with the option in as File File

Hope this might help.
Best of luck.
As an example i am attaching one Office schedule which can be imported and
have a work with and one can get the knowledge of the required schedule
based notepad file or the .inp file version.
For very high success give several trials and practices to have a work go
smoothly.

*Thanks and regards,*
Sharad.Kumar
Freelancer
India.

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Subject: [Equest-users] Occupancy Scedules - 2 question
Dear equest users,
thank you all for your previous answers.

I have following considerations.

1) When tryinq to import the Occupancy schedules in the Spreadsheet with
copy paste from excel, it doesn't work. Athough the data is copied, then it
is lost.

The only way to insert the scedules are from this tab.

[image: image.png]

Do you have any suggestions, about faster import of scedules?
Do you have come across the same issue in the spreadsheet tab?

2) How can I export the scedules I have already created in a .inp file to
use them in another .inp file?

Thank you very much

Konstantina Kalliakoudi
Mechanical Engineer, ?.sc
www.khmoe.gr

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One of my favorite tools (which used to be freely distributed, but is now surprisingly hard to find via Google?? ) for automating the creation and import of schedules is attached: EMIT by RMI.

I commonly use this as a ?translation? tool between scheduled values I?ve come up with in another workbook and my eQuest model. Afater a series of guided prompts, you?ll be presented with an empty table to enter your schedules at the minimum required resolution, and then with the click of a button it?ll quickly generate an INP text file you can import directly from the eQuest interface.

Two things can cause common trip ups however:

1. Be mindful when pasting in calculated values to be deliberate in rounding them to only 4-6 decimal places, first.
2. It?s often a good idea to open up the generated INP first before importing, to scan for any lines where the 80 character limit is exceeded. If you catch that, just enter a linebreak somewhere following a comma to avoid unintended behavior or errors upon importing.

~Nick

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