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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Lopez, Phylroy <<a href="mailto:Phylroy.Lopez@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca">Phylroy.Lopez@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">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 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hand [mailto:<a href="mailto:jon@esru.strath.ac.uk">jon@esru.strath.ac.uk</a>] Sent: February 22, 2011 21:09 To: Ferguson, Alex; <a href="mailto:core_developers@espr.list.cvsdude.com">core_developers@espr.list.cvsdude.com</a>; <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> 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 </div></div></blockquote></div>