Hi. Are there any other Hevacomp Mechanical Designer users currently learning to use OpenBuildings Energy Simulator (Update 7)? I am new to it myself and would be interested to know how you are getting on with the functionality of the Energy Simulator platform for modelling and steady state calculations.
How do you feel it compares with Hevacomp Mechanical Designer DDB?
No worries Phil. To clarify:
*Hevacomp Design Database and Simulator capabilities are now in OpenBuildings Energy Simulator
*Pipe and Duct sizing are being developed in OpenBuildings Designer - however at this time we would advise continuing to use Netsys.
Hope that helps, if you need anything else let us know.
Shane Regan | Principle Building Performance Support EngineerHevacomp to OpenBuildings - A complete guide for every user | Bentley Communities
Sorry Shane I was led to believe by Bentley that station building designer contained within it the elements that we require for load assessment and system sizing basically replacing hevacomp V8i
Thanks Phil,
That explains your difficulties - the above is different software altogether.
Please instead instruct your IT to install as shown here:
How to install OpenBuildings Energy Simulator
To then get going on the software please refer to the steps here. This will, for example, walk you through how to start the software:
Starting OpenBuildings Energy Simulator
Regards,
Shane
Hi Shane,
The software was installed for me by our IT Helpdesk so I do not have any knowedge of how it was installed.
Screen shot of where I load the dgn file from hope this is of assistance have recently updated with the log when error message is generated. Phil.C
Hi Phil, OpenBuildings Station Designer is entirely unrelated software for pedestrian analysis.
Have you installed OpenBuildings Designer as shown here?
If so could you please reply with a screenshot of the menu you are seeing when you try to open the software.