Hi, this is my first time posting a question.
It takes me sometimes 2 minutes to open an eso file in designbuilder Result viewer. I would like to know what are the problems causing this and how can I do to hopefully accelerate this process.
Thank you very much for your reply in advance.
DesignBuilder just released a new version (v4), which might be faster. I have also experienced long waits for opening files (with v3). My workarounds are to:
Thank you vewry much, sorry for the late rely. limite the quantity really help
I have experienced the same, usually when hourly or sub-hourly results are selected for the simulation. At hourly, with 8760 outputs for each variable, this is just a significant amount of data that needs to be opened by resultsviewer, and it just takes time. I suggest being careful about selecting only the outputs you need, to limit the size of the .eso file.
If you need to work at hourly detail, there are other ways to post process the results to extract only the outputs for variables you need. An example is using eplusout python scripting, and connecting to the SQLite database, and extracting the result to csv using the 'to_csv' function. This can bypass the need to open the .eso file. See link here for details.
Also, another perhaps simpler solution is when in the simulation output options, check 'allow custom outputs' and uncheck all other outputs. Then, using the scripts module add in only the outputs you need. This should speed resultsviewer loading up a bit. Designbuilder Help has a good section on this here.
Thank you very much for your reply.
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Did you try Timestep link text ? Recently I have opened 18GB .eso/sql file in this and it was way faster.