[esp-r] Re: Sketchup plug in for ESP-r - is there one out there somewhere??

[Scott Bucking]

Hi All,

Just a quick comment. Rather than going Sketchup to/from ESP-r directly why
not focus on converting e+ files to ESP-r files and skip the added effort to
integrate/maintain the code in OpenStudio?

I think this is a project that looks like it's quick to implement at first,
but after all the time it would take to integrate properly into OpenStudio's
API (abstraction layer/interfaces/etc), on-going testing and code
maintenance (keeping in mind that the OpenStudio codebase changes quickly),
it might be easier if we were to hand the OpenStudio development team an
isolated script with bi-directional geometry/material conversion (espr
from/to e+) and add it as a menu option in OpenStudio.  I know Jon has
actively been persuing this already (at least one direction, albeit for an
older version of e+) and it would have additional uses in PRJ.

Conversion would then be:
ESP-r -> E+ -> Sketch-Up
or
Sketch-up -> E+ -> ESP-r

My two cents,

Scott



On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Lopez, Phylroy <
Phylroy.Lopez at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:

> Yes,
>
> I wrote a ruby script that leveraged the Openstudio/Energyplus plug in
> code to view ESP-r geometries and zoning, I wrote it when I was snowed
> in a few years back, and took all of two days. I passed the code to Iain
> MacDonald for some validation work that I was doing. I think he may have
> made some improvements to it. It was very simple to use, but it was
> one-way transform of geometry to SU, but two-way would not be much more
> work.
>
> Jeff Blake mentioned to me that he was working on a new Skecthup plug-in
> viewer. I am not sure if his plan was to write it from scratch or
> leverage the Openstudio libraries.
>
>
> Phylroy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Hand [mailto:jon at esru.strath.ac.uk]
> Sent: February 22, 2011 21:09
> To: Ferguson, Alex; core_developers at espr.list.cvsdude.com;
> esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
> Subject: Sketchup plug in for ESP-r - is there one out there somewhere??
>
>
> I remember months or years ago there was a message about a Sketchup
> plugin for ESP-r (probably a collection of Ruby code).
>
> Anyone remember this?
>
> Anyone know:
> a) where
>  b)what it is
> c) how to use it
> d) where the source is?
>
> If it exists - anyone interested in working on it so that there is
> another option for interacting with ESP-r?
>
> Regards, Jon Hand
>
>
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