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Nick, There are two ways that you can get parameter information into a simulation from an external source; neither one is ideal and neither one uses Excel. First is to use Type70; it replaces whatever parameter values you specified in the Studio project with the values that it finds in a text file (the text file name is specified by Type70). If you can write your parameters such as tank volume to a text file then you can have Type70 read them in. Second, you can put all of the values into an include file. Your include file has to respect TRNSYS input file syntax. For example, you'd have to write: EQUATIONS 1 V_Tank = 0.5 You could then swap in one include file or another (or rewrite the include file from Excel using a macro) before you ran TRNSYS. Best, David On 8/11/2011 12:00, Nicholas LaHam wrote: I looked at the examples for calling excel but I think what I am trying to achieve is different, maybe someone can help or tell me if it's possible. -- *************************** David BRADLEY Principal Thermal Energy Systems Specialists, LLC 22 North Carroll Street - suite 370 Madison, WI 53703 USA P:+1.608.274.2577 F:+1.608.278.1475 d.bradley@tess-inc.com http://www.tess-inc.com http://www.trnsys.com |