Re: [TRNSYS-users] TRNSED / GENOPT compatibility

[Jeff Thornton <thornton@tess-inc.com>]

At 08:56 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote:

> I would like to use GENOPT with a TRNSED Application. To do this I need to
> be able to call the TRNSED Application AND have it perform the "Calculate"
> function (i.e. run the simulation) from a single command line prompt.
>
> Is there a way of doing this?

Todd,

Why do you need to call TRNSED before running TRNSYS with GENOPT?  TRNSED 
is just a display software that interprets commands embedded in a TRNSYS 
input file.  All you need to do is have GENOPT call TRNEXE.EXE; the actual 
run-time engine for TRNSYS.  That's what we do in TRNOPT; our commercial 
interface between GENOPT and TRNSYS - which allows users to easily run 
optimizations on TRNSYS input files.

Jeff


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