Gerilla: Grasshopper to Energy Plus

Gerilla is a plugin for Grasshopper / Rhino that will allow you to run full building energy simulations on using the EnergyPlus simulation engine. It was born in the Product Architecture Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology in Fall of 2011 and is the result of the collaborative efforts of Michael Marvin, Drew Orvieto, and Ben Silverman. Gerilla has been developed as an open source, free to download plugin for Grasshopper (all you have to do is make sure to give us all the credit when you design your next amazing zero energy building).

Currently, Gerilla is still in it’s infancy, and as such we haven’t published the code and plugin to the internet yet, but if you are interested in wrestling the Gerilla feel free to contact us at:

gerilla.for.grasshopper@gmail.com

http://www.architexted.com/gerilla-grasshopper-to-energyplus/

Once things are developed a little further it is our intention to publish the plugin, install files, and libraries out to the net for all to download and enjoy. In the meantime, check out the Gerilla Primer and learn more about this exciting tool!

Tags: EnergyPlus, Gerilla, energy, lab, modeling, pae

Attachments:

Gerilla Primer.pdf, 1.5 MB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by mohamed aly on December 27, 2011 at 3:53am

Hi Dorvieto,

The download link is broken can you hep?

Thank you

Permalink Reply by Ben Silverman on January 12, 2012 at 12:32pm

You should be able to download the primer by right clicking the file and selecting "Save link as..."

Let me know if this works for you.

Ben

Permalink Reply by mohamed aly on January 13, 2012 at 3:31am

unfortunately it does not work

Permalink Reply by Ben Silverman on January 13, 2012 at 8:16am

Strange, it worked for me. I can email it to you if you want to share your email address.

Permalink Reply by mohamed aly on January 13, 2012 at 9:00am

Thank you

mohamed.aly@aucegypt.edu

Permalink Reply by Jesper Hildebrandt Andersen on February 5, 2012 at 3:50pm

Hey

I am having the same problem with the download link, and got a mail error on the email addrese. I would really like to try out the software so if be any chance could send it to jesperhildeandersen@gmail.com will i be grateful.

Permalink Reply by Ben Silverman on January 12, 2012 at 12:28pm

The Gerilla Tower Demo video is a quick demo to show how you can quickly move from modeling one thermal zone, to a tower of stacked thermal zones, to a 2 or 3 dimensional stack of thermal zones.

Permalink Reply by Alan Jackson on February 6, 2012 at 8:15am

Ben

Would love to take a crack at this and help out. Please get back to me. Thanks!

Find me @ openrevit.com or case-inc.com

Permalink Reply by Ben Silverman on February 6, 2012 at 9:31am

Alan and others,

We have had trouble with the download link on this grasshopper page. If you'd like to install our plug-in, please send me an email at BHSilverman@gmail.com and I will share a dropbox folder with you, from which you can download the install zip file.

Please be advised that we have yet to update Gerilla to EnergyPlus V7.0.

Thanks for your interest,

Ben

Permalink Reply by CG zheng on April 10, 2013 at 9:58pm