Workflow for energyplus example file
I have a idf file created with designbuilder and want to implement a four pipe beam which was newly incorporated in energyplus version 8.4. No graphical user interface appears to have adopted version 8.4 yet.
I created a Induction unit in design builder and exported the idf file hoping to change the system to a FourPipeBeam based on the example file. I chose a induction unit model as it seemed closest to the FourPipeBeam and gives me all the nodes and connections. But the process seems too tedious and there are a lot of errors.
Just wondering how do you usually use a energy plus example idf file of a system and incorporate it into your model of the building.
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How many replacements of terminal units are we talking about here? It'd do it manually (leveraging search and replace in my text editor as much as possible) if it's a handful. It you have say 50 of them, I'd probably script it (using Python and Eppy)
Not sure if the task is as easy as doing a search and replace. Looks like FourPipeBeam needs additional components such as a return plenum. Which we do not get with the designbuilder induction unit model. It seems tedious to reconnect all the nodes and add components.