J Lucas Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Does anyone know of a program to model building heating and cooling performance and energy use that interfaces with VW Architect 2008? Quote Link to comment
mike-h Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 have you come across ecotect by square1? Its meant to be pretty good, particularly for passive heating/ cooling/ shading measures etc, as it carries a lot of global weather data etc., though I'm not sure how precise it is for your purposes. Apparently you can import 3ds models (I know this is an export option for VW) - is this enough 'interfacing' for you? Unfortunately its PC (or virtual PC) only - but that'd be fine for you.. there is a free download trial from their website. I'd be interested in anyones experiences with this or other such software too. Quote Link to comment
billtheia Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 VW can also export DOE-2 files (AEC > Space Planning > Export DOE-2) which many energy calc applications should be able to use. Hoepfuly some day soon we'll be able to provide an IFC/BIM file that ANY energy calc application will be able to read, including all of the material properties. Quote Link to comment
J Lucas Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 Thanks hawkeye and bill. I found a link to the eQUEST program, which is doe2 based, on Vectorwiki. Has anyone used this with VW and if so, how did it go? Can it be used for passive solar modeling? Quote Link to comment
billtheia Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 J, I'm not sure how easy it will be to use eQuest for "solar modeling" but I'm pretty sure that it can give you solar gain from glazing. It is one of only two applications approved by the state of CA for use in calculating energy code compliance. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Some great info & tools here: http://www.retscreen.net/ Quote Link to comment
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