GettingStarted
Setting up the prerequisites
What do we need to get started?
- Energy Plus version 8.4: Official page , Direct download link
- Rhino5 Official page
- Grasshopper Official page
- Weather Data: Free Energy Plus weather data
In case you do not have any experience with Rhino and Grasshopper the following tutorials might be helpful.
TODO:
Installation:
Close all instances of Rhino and Grasshopper. Before you install anything new you should search for old Archsim installations and delete all old instances of ArchsimLib.dll and ArchsimGH.gha.
- In Grasshopper, choose File > Special Folders > Components folder. Save the gha file and DLLs there.
- Right-click the files > Properties > make sure there is no "blocked" text and/or that the DLLs and GHA files are unblocked.
- Restart Rhino and Grasshopper
- In addition you must have "EnergyPlus 8-4-0" installed. By default Archsim expects the "EnergyPlus 8-4-0" folder in the C:\DIVA directory.
All relevant Archsim files
When you restart Rhino and Grasshopper you should see an Archsim tab in the Grasshopper panel. An example of how the interface looks like is given in the figure below.
Archsim user interface