Solutions to Exo3

1. A window has been added on the north wall of the building, cf. tipee_limos_eplus/examples/Practical_learning_exercices/Exo3/Solution/cabin.idf . This was done by copying and existing window and changing its name and vertices positions.
2. A new variable has been created in tipee_limos_eplus/examples/Practical_learning_exercices/Exo3/Solutiondesign_space_cabin.py called X4_act and X4 . The location is not optimized, only the material is. The material of this window is independent from that of X1 which describes windows potentially changed on the east and west walls. Note that the cost, the environmental footprint, ... , associated to the work for that specific window should in practice be different from that of the X1_act windows.
3. There are actually 2 ways to do this, one more user-oriented, another more programmer oriented.
   • User oriented: set all options that create printouts to True and read the files in the output directory. More precisely:
     • In file main_Exo3.py :

       (...)
       n_iters=1
       n_uncs=1
       (...)
       Simuls = SetAndRunSimulations(
         duration=duration,
         root_path=root_path,
         run_dir=run_dir,
         epw_path=epw_path,
         idf_path=idf_path,
         services_path=json_path,
         output_step=output_step,
         save_idf=True,  # Uncomment to save idf files
         save_csv=True,  # Uncomment to save csv result files
         debug=True,
         del_wks=False)
       

   • Execute main_Exo3.py and the results can be found in outputs/cabin_Exo3/cabin_iteration_0/cabin_iteration_0.idf and outputs/cabin_Exo3/uncertain_design.csv. This last file contains only the design variables.
   • Programmer's way :