[esp-r] Re: XZIP software...

[Jon Hand]

XZIP might be long dead for most people.  DXF suffers from being both
ugly and its inability to hold the kind of attributes that simulation needs.

And there are some new beasties on the block (Revit and ArchiCAD) and 
I have been testing out interfaces to both of these which bypass the DXF 
and generate a well populated (zones, constructions, operations)  ESP-r 
model (there are some limitations of course).

I am actually meeting today with a small company in Seoul Korea who
is working on the ArchiCAD interface and I hope to find out what the 
availability is for general release (free and or paid) to the ESP-r community.

I also gave a recent presentation at eSim in Winnipeg Canada on this
topic.  It would be interesting to find out who in the existing ESP-r
community would be interested in access to plug-ins.  Please email
me your comments and/or expressions of interest.

Regards, Jon Hand

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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Achim Geissler [achim.geissler at intergga.ch]
Sent: 09 June 2010 21:17
To: David Garcia
Cc: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r] Re: XZIP software...

Hi David

to my knowledge, the xzip tools that are still lurking in ESP-r are obsolete (for quite some time now). I think the current development_branch (and next release) uses .dxf as default.

However, be aware that dxf import is also restricted (I never succeeded in importing more than, say, 3 or 4 zones with maybe 10 to 12 surfaces each at once).

Best
Achim



On Jun 9, 2010, at 4:56 PM, David Garcia wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to make complex buildings in ESP-r, unfortunately the complex geometry made this task difficult to make in ESP-r, so I'm looking forward to third-party applications, I was searching in google for the XZIP tools, but it seems that  it doesn't exist... even at the IES website...

can some of you give me a link where I can download or buy this software?

Thanks

David Garcia

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