OpenStudio Tips - Getting Information from Output Reports

We discuss the two standard output reports provided by OpenStudio/EnergyPlus and how you can get additional information to show in them. We also download a measure from the Building Component Library that provides even more information and will allow you to extract or link the report information for use in external spread sheets. Transcript: Today we are going to talk about the output reports that you can get from OpenStudio EnergyPlus. I am going to show you a a handy measure that I wrote that you can download from the Building Component Library (BCL). One of the default reports that you can install in the measures tab is the OpenStudio results report. If you click on it, you can select whether it outputs the imperial system of units or the metric system of units. You can select the various different categories of information that you can find in the report. So, that is one of the reports. The other report that you can find, if you go to the project folder...go to the reports folder... You will see that OpenStudio results report as an HTML file. You can also look at the EnergyPlus tabulation report. It has almost the same information. If you want to get additional information in that report, you can go to the simulation settings tab and scroll down to the bottom. You see Output Table Summary Reports and click enable on this. This will give you an expanded set of reports inside the EnergyPlus tabulation reports. The other thing that you can do is download this measure that I wrote. It has some additional reports, including the Zone Component Load reports and the Airloop Component Load reports. Those are pretty handy information to have when you are trying to diagnose things. Go to Find Measures...Reporting...QAQC...Set output table to si units V2 or Set output table to ip units V2. You can use either one of these to Output the EnergyPlus report to your units of choice. We will select IP units v2...we will click download...so the Building Component Library is having some login issues today. So, we can go ahead use uh either one of these...I have a backup in my measures. I also have a copy of the BCL SI units. We can just use this one for now. You can click on it. There are no options here, so this this just is going to Output it to IP units. But, it is handy. It will output the EnergyPlus report to IP units. It will also allow you to output the OpenStudio results report in IP units as well. We are going to go ahead and click the run...and it is finished successfully. If we go to the EnergyPlus output HTML file. Click Refresh on the web browser. It updated this...go to the table of contents. You can see that these items were added. We now have Zone Component Load summaries and Air Loop Component load summaries. These are useful information. This shows you a breakdown of the components that contribute to the loads in the zone. It also has some handy engineering checks. It also shows you sizing and safety factor multipliers. That is important information when you are looking at loads and sizing of systems. This measure can also allow you to extract this information...you can certainly copy and paste on the web browser HTML file, but sometimes that is not so easy to do . Alternatively, you can go to the project folder...go to the Run folder...now you will see that there is what is called an eplustbl.tab file. This is a tabulation file. It is the same information that is in the EnergyPlus report we just looked at in the web browser HTML file. The information is put into an Excel spreadsheet with tab delimited information. If we open that up, we will see that it is basically the same report. You can search for any type of information in here. We will just search for Zone Sizing Information. This is the Zone sizing information table. You can simply copy and paste it to your um external Excel file...or even better...you can paste it as a link. That will paste all of the information...all of that information is linked. Then, when you do update those calculations, that information will pull through to your to your external Excel calculation file. That is that in a nutshell. Thank you! Please like and subscribe! ... Complete transcript: https: //www.helix-engineers.net/technical-articles