Simulation Parameters

Location = Libraries/Sim Params

 

The Sim Params (Simulation Parameters) Library is where the user can review simulation parameter sets that are provided with Simergy or create their own by editing existing library entries or creating new ones.  Each Type in the Type and Sub Type table contains a section that displays a screenshot of the Property Values Table showing the properties associated with the Type and Sub Type.  In the case where the Sub Types have the same properties only one example of the Property Values table is shown.  See Property Values Table to learn about how to interact with the table.

Note: Although not yet fully implemented the intent is that for each section there will be links directly to the EnergyPlus Input Output Reference.  In addition the links will also be included in the Type and Sub Type Mapping Table.

Type and Sub Type Mapping

The table displays the Controller Type and Sub Type options that can be selected from the drop down lists in that area of the workspace, which filter the Source Library to display the variables the user can select to include, along with a value, in a Library Entry.  

Note: The links within the table are to the EnergyPlus Input Output Reference and the explanations of the objects.

 

Select Type Options Select Sub Type Options Property Category
     
Algorithm SurfaceConvectionAlgorithmInside
SurfaceConvectionAlgorithmOutside
HeatBalanceAlgorithm
ZoneHeatBalanceAlgorithm
SurfaceConvectionAlgorithm:Inside
SurfaceConvectionAlgorithm:Outside
HeatBalanceAlgorithm
ZoneHeatBalanceAlgorithm
Basement Transfer Model Default  
Convection Coefficients Multiple Surfaces ConvectionCoefficients:MultipleSurfaces
Ground Heat Transfer Default GroundHeatTransfer:Control

Simulation Control

 

Default
Run Period
Run Period Custom Range
Special Days
Daylight Savings Time
 
RunPeriod
 
RunPeriodControl:SpecialDays
RunPeriodControl:Dayligh SavingsTime
Site Wind Pressure Wind Directions
Wind Pressure Values
 
Slab Transfer Model Default  
Parametric SetValueForRun
Logic
RunControl
FileNameSuffix
Parametric:SetValueForRun
Parametric:Logic
Parametric:RunControl
Parametric:FileNameSuffix

 

Simulation Control (Type)

The associated Sub Types are Default, RunPeriod, RunPeriordCustom Range,  SpecialDays and DaylightSaving Time.

 

Simulation Control (Property Category)

Do Zone Sizing Calculation

A Yes/No selection to incorporate zone sizing into the model

Do System Sizing Calculation

A Yes/No selection to incorporate system sizing into the model

Do Plant Sizing Calculation

A Yes/No selection to incorporate plant sizing into the model

Run Simulation for Sizing Periods

A Yes/No selection to incorporate the sizing periods into the model

Run Simulation for Weather File Run Periods

A Yes/No selection to incorporate the weather file run periods into the model

Do HVAC Sizing Simulation for Sizing Periods

 

Maximum Number of HVAC Sizing Simulation Periods

 

 

Version (Property Category)

Version Identifier

Conveys what EnergyPlus version is being used to generate the simulations.  

Note: Currently the only EnergyPlus version being run is version 7.1

 

 

Shadow Calculation (Property Category)

To reduce calculation time shadowing calculations are performed over a period of days versus being performed at every time step over the full year.  The default setting is that the shadowing calculations will be run ever 20 days throughout a weather run period.

Calculation Method

 

Calculation Frequency

[numeric entry or drop down selection] Establishes the days within a period between which shadowing calculations are analyzed.  The default value is 20 days.  Lower values mean the fewer days between calculations, while a larger value means fewer times shadowing is calculated over the course of the year.

Maximum Figures in Shadow Overlap Calculation

[numeric entry or drop down selection] Default = 15,000 and Minimum = 200.  Establishes the number of figures allowed in shadow overlaps.  Increasing the number may increase calculation time, while decreasing the value will reduce the accuracy and reduce the simulation time.

Polygon Clipping Algorithm

Note: Advanced EnergyPlus Feature

[drop down selection]  The user has two choices that influence how geometry is handled within the BEM.  

Sky Diffuse Modeling Algorithm

[drop down selection]  The user has two choices for how the level of detail of a diffuse sky is handled within the BEM that influences simulation time:

Note: If the BEM has shadowing surfaces with changing transmittance during the year, the program will automatically select the Detailed Sky Diffuse Modeling setting.

Zone Capacitance Multiplier (Property Category)

Note: Advanced EnergyPlus Feature. See the InputOutput Reference for further explanation of the different fields

A property that can be used to control the effective storage capacity of the zone.  

 

Temperature Capacity Multiplier

 

Humidity Capacity Multiplier

This field is used to alter the effective moisture capacitance of the zone air volume.  This affects the transient calculations of zone air humidity ratio.  Values greater than 1.0 have the effect of smoothing, or damping, the rate of change in the water content of zone air from timestep to timestep.

Carbon Dioxide Capacity Multiplier

This field is used to alter the effective carbon dioxide capacitance of the zone air volume. This affects the transient calculations of zone air carbon dioxide concentration.  Values greater than 1.0 have the effect of smoothing or damping the rate of change in the carbon dioxide level of zone air from timestep to timestep.

Generic Contaminant Capacity Multiplier

 

 

Zone Air Contaminant Balance (Property Category)

The user can select which contaminant type will be simulated.  Currently the only option is carbon dioxide, however other types are slated to be included in future versions of EnergyPlus.

Carbon Dioxide Concentration

[Yes/No]  Default = No.  If Yes, simulation of carbon dioxide concentration levels will be performed

Outdoor Carbon Dioxide Schedule Name

[drop down selection]  Specifies the name of a schedule that contains outdoor air carbon dioxide level values in units of ppm

Generic Contaminant Concentration

[Yes/No]  Default = No.  If Yes, simulation of generic contaminant concentration levels will be performed

Outdoor Generic Contaminant Schedule Name

[drop down selection]  Specifies the name of a schedule

 

 

Time step (Property Category)

Number of Timesteps per Hour

[numeric entry or drop down selection] Default = 6.  Minmum = 1; Maximum = 60.  Determines the number of timesteps that will be incorporated into the BEM Simulation.  

 

 

Convergence Limits (Property Category)

Note: Advanced EnergyPlus Feature

The intent of this feature is to provide EnergyPlus Power Users control of certain properties that can aid in "speeding up" the simulation time.  The user should use caution when adjusting these parameters.

 

Minimum System Timestep

Usually the minimum system timestep is allowed to vary from the zone timestep (as maximum) to a minimum timestep of 1 minute during certain system calculations. This might be when the system turns on or off, for example. Entering 0 in this field sets the minimum system timestep to be the same as the zone timestep. Otherwise the units of the field are minutes.

Tip: It’s probably a good idea to have any minimum entered be a divisor of the zone timestep

Maximum HVAC Iterations

The HVAC Manager will iterate to a solution or up to a set number of iterations.  Default = 20

Tip: In order to reduce time used in simulating your building, you may choose to enter a lesser number than the default of 20 for the maximum number of iterations to be used. Or, you may wish to enter a bigger number for certain buildings.

Minimum Plant Iterations

The number of iterative solutions that will be run.  Default = 2; Minimum = 1

Maximum Plant Iterations

The number of iterative solutions that will be run.  Default = 8; Minimum = 2

 

 

Program Control  (Property Category)

Number of Threads Allowed

Not currently active

 

 

Daylight Saving Time (Sub Type)

Similar to a special day period, a daylight saving period may be entered to be applied to weather file run periods.

 

Start Date (required)

[text/numeric entry]  Establishes the starting date for the daylight saving time period.  The values can be input in a number of different ways, see the table below.  

End Date (required)

[text/numeric entry]  Establishes the ending date for the daylight saving time period.  

 

 

 

Run Period (Sub Type)

Incorporates the properties necessary to create a weather file simulation.

 

Begin Month (required)

[numeric entry or drop down selection]  Range = 1 to 12.  Establishes what month the simulation will START on.  January =1 and December = 12.

Begin Day of Month (required)

[numeric entry or drop down selection]  Range = 1 to 31.  Establishes what day of the month the simulation will START on.  The first day of the month = 1.  

End Month (required)

[numeric entry or drop down selection]  Range = 1 to 12.  Establishes what month the simulation will END on.  January =1 and December = 12.

End Day of Month (required)

[numeric entry or drop down selection]  Range = 1 to 31.  Establishes what day of the month the simulation will END on.  The first day of the month = 1.  

Day of Week for Start Day

[drop down selection]  Range = Sunday to Saturday.  Allows the user to override the Day of the week within the weather file for the "Begin Day of Month", if desired.

Use Weather File Holidays and Special Days

[Yes/No]  Default = Yes (even if left blank).  If Yes, the holidays or other special days indicated directly on the weather file will retain their day type.

Use Weather File Daylight Saving Period

[Yes/No]  Default = Yes (even if left blank).  If Yes, the daylight savings period as contained in the weather file will be accepted.

Apply Weekend Holiday Rule

[Yes/No]  Default = No (even if left blank).  If Yes, then if a holiday falls on a weekend, the holiday will be observed on the Monday after the day. daylight savings period as contained in the weather file will be accepted.

User Weather File Rain Indicators

[Yes/No] Default = No (even if left blank).  Weather files can contain “rain” indicators, which indicates wet surfaces and changes the film convection coefficient for the surface. Other models may use rain as well (Ground Heat Exchangers). Entering “Yes” in this field allows the weather file conditions to represent “Rain”;  entering “No” in the field “turns off” the rain indicator for this period.

User Weather File Snow Indicators  

[Yes/No]  Weather files can contain “snow” indicators. (EPW field “Snow Depth” > 0 indicates “Snow on the ground”). In turn, snow changes the reflectivity of the ground and cascades changes of this reflectivity. Entering “Yes” in this field allows the weather file conditions to represent “Snow”;  entering “No” in the field “turns off” the snow indicator for this period.  

Number of Time Runperiod to be Repeated

[numeric entry]  Default = 1.  Indicates the number of times (typically years) the simulation needs to be carried out in a multi runperiod simulation.

Note: that you can specify a number of simulation years with a shorter run period (e.g. 1 week) and EnergyPlus will repeat the simulation of the shorter run period for that many times.

Increment Day of Week on repeat

[Yes/No]  

Start Year

[numeric entry]  Enter the Start year for the simulation

 

Run PeriodCustomRange (Sub Type)

Same as RunPeriod with a few less properties

 

 

Special Days (Sub Type)

 

Start Date (required)

[text/numeric entry]  Establishes the starting date for the special period.  

Duration

[numeric entry ]  Default = 1,440 minutes. Range = 1,440 to 527,040 min.  Establishes how long the special day period lasts.

Special Day Type (required)

[drop down selection ]  Determines what the "day type" for schedule use will be.  The user must select one of the five options (Holiday, Summer Design Day, Winter Design Day, Custom Day 1, Custom Day 2)

 

 

 

 

Algorithm (Type)

Surface Convection Algorithm Inside (Sub Type)

This input object is used control the choice of models used for surface convection at the inside face of all the heat transfer surfaces in the model.  This object sets the selection for convection correlations in a global way. The Zone Inside Convection Algorithm input field in the Zone object may be used to selectively override this value on a zone-by-zone basis. Further, individual surfaces can refine the choice by each surface or surface lists.

Field: Algorithm

The model specified in this field is the default algorithm for the inside face all the surfaces.. The key choices are Simple, TARP, CeilingDiffuser, and AdaptiveConvectionAlgorithm.

 

Surface Convection Algorithm Outside

Various exterior convection models may be selected for global use.  The optional Zone Outside Convection Algorithm input field in the Zone object may be used to selectively override this value on a zone-by-zone basis. Further, individual surfaces can refine the choice by each surface or surface lists – see  object SurfaceProperty:ConvectionCoefficients and object SurfaceProperty:ConvectionCoefficients:MultipleSurface.

Field: Algorithm

The available key choices are SimpleCombined, TARP, MoWiTT, DOE-2, and AdaptiveConvectionAlgorithm.

Heat Balance Algorithm

The HeatBalanceAlgorithm object provides a way to select what type of heat and moisture transfer algorithm will be used across the building construction calculations.

Field: Algorithm

Four values are allowed to select which solution will be used.

Field: Surface Temperature Upper Limit

This field is a bit “advanced”.  It should only be used when the simulation fails AND you cannot determine a cause for the failure. 

Field: Minimum Surface Convection Heat Transfer Coefficient Value

This optional field is used to set an overall minimum for the value of the coefficient for surface convection heat transfer (Hc) in W/m2-K.  A minimum is necessary for numerical robustness because some correlations for Hc can result in zero values and create numerical problems.   This field can be used to support specialized validation testing to suppress convection heat transfer and to investigate the implications of different minimum Hc values. The default is 0.1. 

Field: Maximum Surface Convection Heat Transfer Coefficient Value

This optional field is used to set an overall maximum for the value of the coefficient for surface convection heat transfer (Hc) in W/m2-K.   High Hc values are used in EnergyPlus to approximate fixed surface temperature boundary conditions. This field can be used to alter the accepted range of user-defined Hc values. 

 

Property Set - HeatBalanceSettings:ConductionFiniteDifference

 

Difference Scheme

 

Space Discretization Constant

 

Relaxation Factor

 

Inside Face Surface Temperature Convergence Criteria

 

 

Zone Heat Balance Algorithm

The ZoneAirHeatBalanceAlgorithm object provides a way to select what type of solution algorithm will be used to calculate zone air temperatures and humidity ratios. This object is an optional object. If the default algorithm is used, this object is not required in an input file.

 

Field: Algorithm

Three choices are allowed to select which solution algorithm will be used. The ThirdOrderBackwardDifference selection is the default selection and uses the third order finite difference approximation to solve the zone air energy and moisture balance equations. The AnalyticalSolution selection uses the integration approach to solve the zone air energy and moisture balance equations. The EulerMethod selection uses the first order finite backward difference approximation to solve the zone air energy and moisture balance equations.

 

Basement Transfer Model (Type)

Default (Sub Type)

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:BldgData

DWAL: Wall Thickness

DSLAB: Floor Slab Thickness

DGRAVXY: Witdh of gravel pit beside basement wall

DGRAVZN: Gravel depth extending above the floor slab

DGRAVZP: Gravel depth below the floor slab

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:SimParameters

F: Multiplier for the ADI solution

IYRS: Maximum number of yearly iterations

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:MatlProps

NMAT: Number of materials in the domain

Density for Foundation Wall

density for Floor Slab

density for Ceiling

density for Soil

density for Gravel

density for Wood

Specific heat for foundation wall

Specific heat for floor slab

Specific Heat for ceiling

Specific Heat for soil

Specific Heat for Gravel

Specific Heat for wood

Thermal Conductivity for foundation wall

Thermal Conductivity for floor slab

Thermal Conductivity for ceiling

Thermal Conductivity for soil

Thermal Conductivity for gravel

Thermal Conductivity for wood

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:Insulation

REXT:R Value of any exterior insulation

INSFULL: Flag:Is the wall fully insulated?

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:SurfaceProps

ALBEDO: Surface albedo for No snow conditions

ALBEDO: Surface albedo for snow conditions

EPSLN: Surface emissivity Now Snow

EPSLN: Surface emissivity with Snow

VEGHT: Surface roughness No  snow conditions

VEGHT: Surface roughness Snow conditions

PET: Flag, Potential evapotranspiration on?

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:Interior

COND: Flag: IS the basement conditions?

HIN: Downward convection only heat transfer coefficient

HIN: Upward convection only heat transfer coefficient

HIN: Horizontal convection only heat transfer coefficient

HIN: Downward combined (convection and radiation) heat transfer coefficient

HIN: Upwaard combined (convection and radiation) heat transfer coefficient

HIN: Horizontal combined (convection and radiation) heat transfer coefficient

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:ComBldg

Monthly Average temperature (one for each month)

Daily Variation sine wave amplitude

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:EquivSlab

APRatio: The area to perimeter ratio for this slab

EquivSizing: Flag

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:EquivAutoGrid

CLEARANCE: Distance from outside of wall edge to edge of 3-D ground

SlabDepthL the thickness of the floor slab

Base Depth: Depth of the basement wall below grade

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:AutoGrid

CLEARANCE: Distance from outside of wall to edge

SLABX: X dimension of the building slab

SLABY: Y dimension of the building slab

ConcAGHeight: Height of the foundation wall above grade

SlabDepth: Thickness of the floor slab

BaseDepth: Depth of the basement wall below grade

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:ManualGrid

NX: Number of cells in the X direction [1-20]

NY: Number of cells in the Y direction [1-20]

NZAG: Number of cells in the Z direction above grade

NZBG: Number of cells in Z direction below grade [10-35]

IBASE: X direction cell indicator of slab edge

JBASE: Y direction cell indicator of slab edge

KBASE: Z direction cell indicator of slab edge

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:XFACE

Slab X Coord [1-44]

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:YFACE

Slab Y Coord [1-44]

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Basement:ZFACE

Slab Z Coord [1-44]

 

Convection Coefficients (Type)

The convection coefficients of each surface, both exterior and interior, are automatically calculated during EnergyPlus execution. These calculations are “governed” by other objects such as the SurfaceConvectionAlgorithm:Inside (overall default), the Zone object’s field called Zone Inside Convection Algorithm (Zone Default), the  and the SurfaceConvectionAlgorithm:Outside (overall default), and/or the Zone object’s field called Zone Outside Convection Algorithm (Zone Default).

 

Multiple Surfaces (Sub Type)

 

Surface Type (required)

[drop down selection]  The user can choose from the following surface types:

Convection Coefficient Location (required)

[drop down selection]  The user can choose either "Outside" or "Inside".

Convection Coefficient Type

[text/numeric entry]  The entries can be of several types: Value (simple numeric value), Schedule (name of schedule with the values), the usual key choices for overall models for Outside or Inside (Simple, SimpleCombined, TARP, AdaptiveConvectionAlgorithm etc.), the key choices for individual convection equations used for customizing the adaptive algorithm, or a custom user defined correlation.  See the Key Choices Table in the Input Output Reference for additional information (refer to field link).

Convection Coefficient 1,2  

[text/numeric entry]  If the Convection type was “Value”, then this field is filled and contains the simple value to be used. Otherwise, this can be blank.

Convection Coefficient Schedule Name 1,2  

[text/numeric entry]  If the Convection type was “Schedule”, then this field contains the name of a schedule describing the value to be used during the time intervals for the schedule.

Convection Coefficient User Curve Name 1,2  

[text/numeric entry]  If the Convection type was “UserCurve”, then this field contains the name of a SurfaceConvectionAlgorithm:UserCurve input object describing the model equations to be used during the time intervals for the schedule.

 

Ground Heat Transfer (Type)

Default (Sub Type)

The GroundHeatTransfer:Control object determines if the Slab and Basement preprocessors are going to be executed. When a Slab or Basement run is performed the results are saved in files with extensions .SLAB or .BSMT so that they do not need to be rerun if no input changes are made to the GroundHeatTransfer:Slab or GroundHeatTransfer:Basement objects.

Field: Run Basement Preprocessor

The field can either be Yes or No and defaults to No. It is used to control whether the Basement preprocessor program is executed. If it has been previously executed the results are stored in the .BSMT file and do not necessary need to be run again unless the GroundHeatTransfer:Basement objects have changed.

Field: Run Slab Preprocessor

The field can either be Yes or No and defaults to No. It is used to control whether the Slab preprocessor program is executed. If it has been previously executed the results are stored in the .SLAB file and do not necessary need to be run again unless the GroundHeatTransfer:Slab objects have changed.

 

 

 

 

Site Wind Pressure (Type)

 

Wind Directions (Sub Type)

 

Wind Direction [1-36]

 

 

 

Wind Pressure Values (Sub Type)

 

AirflowNetwrok:MultiZone:WindPressureCoefficient Array Name

 

Wind Pressure Coefficient Value [1-36]

 

 

 

Slab Transfer Model (Type)

 

Default (Sub Type)

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:BldgProps

 

IYRS: Number of years to iterate

Shape: Slab shape

HBLDG: building height

Tin 1 -12: Monthly indoor average temperature setpoint (1 per month)

TinAmp: Daily indoor since wave variation amplitude

ConvTol: Convergence tolerance

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:materials

NMAT: Number of materials

ALBEDO: Surface albedo for No snow conditions

ALBEDO: Surface albedo for snow conditions

EPSLN: Surface emissivity Now Snow

EPSLN: Surface emissivity with Snow

Z0: Surface roughness No  snow conditions

Z0: Surface roughness Snow conditions

HIN: Indoor HConv: Downward Flow

HIN: INdoor HConv: Upward

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:MatlProps

 

RHO: Slab material density

RHO: Soil density

CP: Slab CP

CP: Soil CP

TCON: Slab k

TCON: Soil k

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:BoundConds

 

EVTR:Is surface evapotraspiration modeled?

FIXBC: is the lower boundary at a fixed temperature?

USRHflag: Is the ground surface h specified by the user?

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:Insulaation

 

RINS: R value of underslab insulation

DINS: Width of strip of under slab insulation

RVINS: R value of vertical insulation

ZVINS: depth of vertical insulation

IVINS: Flag: Is there vertical insulation?

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:EquivalentSlab

APRatio: The area to perimeter ratio for this slab

SlabDepth: Thickness of the floor slab

CLEARANCE: Distance from edge of slab to domain edge

ZCLEARANCE: Distance from bottom of slab to domain bottom

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:AutoGrid

CLEARANCE: Distance from outside of wall to edge

SLABX: X dimension of the building slab

SLABY: Y dimension of the building slab

SlabDepth: Thickness of the floor slab

CLEARANCE: Distance from edge of slab to domain edge

ZCLEARANCE: Distance from bottom of slab to domain bottom

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:ManualGrid

NX: Number of cells in the X direction [1-20]

NY: Number of cells in the Y direction [1-20]

NZAG: Number of cells in the Z direction above grade

NZBG: Number of cells in Z direction below grade [10-35]

IBOX: X direction cell indicator of slab edge

JBOX: Y direction cell indicator of slab edge

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:XFACE

Slab X Coord [1-44]

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:YFACE

Slab Y Coord [1-44]

 

Property Set - GroundHeatTransfer:Slab:ZFACE

Slab Z Coord [1-44]

 

Parametric (Type)

The Parametric objects can be used in a single file as an alternative of maintaining a group of files with small differences. Updating portions of the multiple files that do not change between permutations becomes tedious and error prone and may lead to incorrect conclusions concerning the energy savings of specific measures. The EnergyPlus ParametricPreprocessor.exe program (described in the EnergyPlus AuxiliaryPrograms document) interprets the following objects in a single file and creates the group of files automatically.  

 

Set Value For Run (Sub Type)

Sets the parameters value to different values depending on which run is being simulated.

Parametric Name (required)

[text/numeric entry]  It must begin with the dollar sign character, and the second character must be a letter. The parameter name, unlike a typical EnergyPlus name, cannot contain spaces or any characters other than letters and numerals.

Value for Run

[text/numeric entry]  The value that should be substituted for the parameter on the n-th simulation. If multiple Parametric:SetValueForRun objects exist and they have different number of fields, the last field value will be used for the remaining field values. This means that to set all values the same, only the first value needed to be entered.

 

Logic (Sub Type)

A single Parametric:Logic object is allowed per file. It has a freeform syntax including IF and SELECT blocks with each field in the object representing a single "line" of code. Essentially, this logic object looks like simple programming code.  See EnergyPlus Input Output reference for detailed explanation.

A potential application scenario - the user might want an overhang on a window in some parametric runs and not others.

Parametric Name (required)

[text entry]  The name of the Parametric:Logic object.

Value for Run

[text/numeric entry]  The line that contains one statement in one of the forms specified in the Input Output Reference Table.

 

Run Control (Sub Type)

The series of entries indicate if the run should be performed or not.   

A potential application scenario - the user might want an overhang on a window in some parametric runs and not others.

Name

[text entry]  The name of the object.

Perform Run

[Yes/No]  The value of the field can be either a yes or no.  It cannot contain a parameter.

 

File Name Suffix (Sub Type)

The series of entries indicate if the run should be performed or not.   

A potential application scenario - the user might want an overhang on a window in some parametric runs and not others.

Name

[text entry]  The name of the optional Parametric:FileNameSuffix object.

Suffix for File Name in Run

[Yes/No]  The value of the field is added to the IDF file name to create the resulting IDF file and output files.  It cannot contain a parameter.

 

 

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