EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
This would be a nice feature to have that would really improve the reporting workflows for consulting. Without the use of scripts, users often need to copy/paste the data from these tables into a spreadsheet for QAQC and reporting (e.g. LEED) purposes. Having the Summary Reports written to separate CSV files would allow the user to link ones of interest to an Excel file through a data connection from text and then simply use the refresh feature after a simulation to update the results.
I've been doing this with IES VE which takes a few mouse clicks to generate the report and then save to a TXT file. I think in EnergyPlus this workflow could be even quicker since the Summary Reports are generated automatically after each sim.
aaron-boranian
commented
6 years ago
This would be a nice feature to have that would really improve the reporting workflows for consulting. Without the use of scripts, users often need to copy/paste the data from these tables into a spreadsheet for QAQC and reporting (e.g. LEED) purposes. Having the Summary Reports written to separate CSV files would allow the user to link ones of interest to an Excel file through a data connection from text and then simply use the refresh feature after a simulation to update the results.
I've been doing this with IES VE which takes a few mouse clicks to generate the report and then save to a TXT file. I think in EnergyPlus this workflow could be even quicker since the Summary Reports are generated automatically after each sim.