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2. Should be straightforwardly construction.get_g_values(). What version of the VE are you using? This particular method is not available in older versions of the API.


I'm running 2017 and running get_g_values() on a construction object returns an attribute error. Does this function only work ...

Haha that's an hour of my life I'll never get back

Thanks a lot Rhind! Looks like it's all working fine now. Are there any plans to update the API docs in the near future?

Hello,

I'm having some trouble using the RoomGroups functionality and was wondering if someone could point out what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to assign a list of rooms to a group, but keep getting a ValueError: No group exists with the specified index even though I'm getting the index by calling ...

Hi tluth,

As far as I can tell, this isn't possible. I wanted this information as well and ended up having to export to gbXML and parse that using ElementTree: https://docs.python.org/3.1/library/xml ... ttree.html

If anything has changed about this problem, I would love to know!

Hello,

This thread was very helpful! I have a few related questions:

1. When setting 'g_value' using 'set_properties()', what exactly is this setting? I have been trying to use it and I can see it setting the 'g_value' by using 'get_properties()', but the g-value in the GUI does not change. What ...

This seems like a real shame; especially since setting these in the GUI is basically the same process as setting the room conditions (using the table view). Do you happen to know if there is any planned development for integrating this feature in the API?

Hello,

I have been trying to set RoomData using VEScripts and am a bit stuck.

I have collected a list of all the bodies in the model and have set room conditions using `set_room_conditions()`.


def set_rm_data(body, cooling, heating):
'''set cooling and heating setpoint'''
rm_data = body.get ...