11-22-2014, 02:23 PM
Hi Kostas,
Using EP-Macro will be essential here. If you haven't tried it, there is video tutorial here: http://www.jeplus.org/wiki/doku.php?id=d...:3_epmacro for a quick introduction. The full details of EP-Macro is in the official document (http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/e...ograms.pdf), from page 129.
You can save the lighting schedules in text files separately, and import them into the main IDF (now should be named IMF) model using the ##include command. If you name the schedule files carefully, so they are aligned with the glazing options, you can then control both with one parameter.
For example, if the glazing parameter uses search tag @@glazing@@ with two values {single, double}, you can name the schedule files as lighting_single.idf and lighting_double.idf, respectively. And then in the main model, import the schedule file with ##include lighting_@@glazing@@.idf...
There are other ways to do this, such as using the combinatorial parameters (see: http://www.jeplus.org/wiki/doku.php?id=d...parameters)
Hope these make sense...
Yi
Using EP-Macro will be essential here. If you haven't tried it, there is video tutorial here: http://www.jeplus.org/wiki/doku.php?id=d...:3_epmacro for a quick introduction. The full details of EP-Macro is in the official document (http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/e...ograms.pdf), from page 129.
You can save the lighting schedules in text files separately, and import them into the main IDF (now should be named IMF) model using the ##include command. If you name the schedule files carefully, so they are aligned with the glazing options, you can then control both with one parameter.
For example, if the glazing parameter uses search tag @@glazing@@ with two values {single, double}, you can name the schedule files as lighting_single.idf and lighting_double.idf, respectively. And then in the main model, import the schedule file with ##include lighting_@@glazing@@.idf...
There are other ways to do this, such as using the combinatorial parameters (see: http://www.jeplus.org/wiki/doku.php?id=d...parameters)
Hope these make sense...
Yi
