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2020-01-08
02:21 PM
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2023-05-11
10:26 AM
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Noemi Balogh
2020-04-26 12:49 PM
mnguyen wrote:Hi,
stetuv wrote:Hi,
Hi James, did you solve your issue? I'm also interested in the exportation workflow from Archidad to PHPP, If yes would you be so kind to share your experience?
Thank you for your interest in the issue!
May I ask what can I help you with? We have some articles about Energy Evaluation workflow in our HelpCenter. You can always have a look here, or if you have any specific questions, feel free to let me know!
Have a nice weekend, and stay safe!
Best regards,
Minh
2020-04-27 08:18 PM
stetuv wrote:Hi,
Hi,
thank you for the fast reply. I am starting to study how works the Energy Evaluation in Archicad and I am also interested in how the data can be exported to fill properly a PHPP file to make a Passivhaus simulation. At the moment I have not a specific question yet but as James has talked about some issues during the exportation, I was curious to know what happened. I have a feeling that it might depend on how the model has been created and the fact that "a classical BIM model" with 3D structure components might not work for a PHPP file. For example when you create the model using the DesingPH app (that works on Sketchup) its componentes are made of simple flat surfaces (with no thikness). Anyway, do you have a guide that explains how to create the model for PHPP exportation?
KR
Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT
2020-05-06 06:54 PM
2020-06-21 06:54 PM
2020-06-30 02:45 PM
jrmrt wrote:Hi,
I spent some time on this issue and this is where the main problem comes from. PHPP needs the total surface area to the outside face of any assembly (wall, roof, floor). Technically, it's to the outside face of the exterior insulation, but to keep things simple, let's try to get it to the outside face of the assembly.
The way that the AC Energy Model exports the surface areas currently is to the inside face of the assemblies (see attachments). This is the data that is received by PHPP during the export.
I created a morph to show what we would want, and scheduled it according to what PHPP needs. I also created some additional properties in order to schedule this.
The area for the highlighted wall (the south wall) according to the Energy Model is 198 sq ft, but if you look at the morph I created, that area is supposed to be 395 sq ft.
The thing that is being exported correctly are the openings. We want the rough opening dimensions to be exported into PHPP, and the AC Energy Model does just that.
What would be great is if we could assign morphs as structures for this export to PHPP, as I've seen that getting an accurate exterior surface area from ArchiCAD doesn't always work as we would like it to. I had to create a property to do this accurately, where I multiply the length of the Wall Reference Line by the total Height of the Wall. However, the problem with that is that sometimes we will need to assign areas with a different exterior conditions which most times don't fit exactly the surface areas of a specific wall, hence having the flexibility of a morph would be great.
Furthermore, the export to PHPP does not work well with the IP version of the software.
As of right now, I would like to know if we could export specific portions of schedules to specific areas of an Excel sheet. That seems to be exactly what the Energy Model export is doing, so if we could modify that as we need it, that would excellent!
Thank you for your help with this.
Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT
2020-06-30 03:26 PM
2020-08-06 04:00 PM
2020-08-28 04:49 PM
2020-08-28 04:59 PM
FFFFF wrote:THAT WOULD BE A DREAM!
I agree with JamesLEDA2, I don't even bother with the energydesign, I do the PHPP manually. I know they have a designPH but that for sketchup which would make no sense if work in AC to export out to sketch to get the PHPP info only to go back to AC and so on. The Bim2PH I have not used yet but would it not be very beneficial for Graphisoft to just work with Passivhaus and directly incorporate the PHPP into AC, that would be a great game changer.
foti
2020-09-06 05:20 AM