IDA ICE 4.7 changelog

New in ICE 4.7 (rel. to ICE 4.6.2)

Enhancements

• New version of ESBO

• The climate data is adjusted to compensate the difference between
  a) hourly mean values and instanceous values
  b) longitudes of location and weather station

• For detailed windows with glazing without integrated shading,
  a shading layer layer may be added either on outer or on the
  inner side of the window

• In custom control macros, the access to parameters of controlled
  device made easier (no script required)

• Mapping IFC spaces to zone templates

• Converting all IFC spaces to zones

• Autosave

• Saving results of multiple simulations

• Redesigned page "Results"

• Support light sensor on the outer side of window

• Using monthly weather data (from ASHRAE 2013 Fundamentals)

• New cooling load (with multiple simulations and monthly weather data)

• Automatically download missing climate data

• Possible to remove tanks in ESBO (modelled as small tanks).
  The default model is without tanks.

• Radiance daylight calculation and visualization

• The shade from window recess is treated as semitransparent - to
  compensate the reflection that is ignored

• Set 2D views in 3D: front, back, top, bottom, left, right

• Visualization and animation of integrated and external shades with new geometries

• Support left and top margins for any area pane (was only for floor plan)

• The default simulating date for cooling/heating simulation is now recalculated
  after change of location.

• Import of IFC files with extra information from Simplebim:
  1) transparent panels in curtain walls imports as windows in walls
  2) explicit given shape of a building storey imports as a building body
  3) construction type of a curtain wall imports as a construction type of a wall
  4) a type of a curtain wall (internal or external) imports as the type of the wall

• Possibility to change building location and orientation at advanced level.
  The shading is also recalculated after change of simulation time.

• User portal

[Beta 05]

• Simple fan coil

• Compressed file format. Saving new systems in a single (packed) file.
  Use Save As and select file format to change format.

• Debug option: show slowest model.
  Activated from Preferences dialog, page Developer.

[Beta 06]

• Function clone-selected-zones (available from context menu) creates a copy
  of the current building with the selected zones only

• Added parameter Controller to ideal cooler and heater.
  Supported user-defined control

[Beta 07]

• Supported specular transmittion through and reflection from shading layer
  (but not slats)

[Beta 08]

• Export to pdf

[Beta 10]

• Possibility to choose Export to PDF from file menu when html report is active.

• Lots of new dialogs for registering/licensing.

[Beta 11-12]

• "Download" works from Location dialog

[Beta 13-14]

• Fan coil available in ESBO

[Beta 15]

• Local load factors (constant and schedules) in energy simulation

• Changed orientation of external shading editor (Sun on left side)

[Beta 18]

• New in ESBO AHUs: CO2 control, night ventilation, night cycling,
  calculated fan capacity

• "Save to palette" for AHU

[Beta 21]

• Redesigned simulation tab

• Automatic downloading of missing climate files from EQUA website

• Checking archive after saving to packed .idm

[Beta 22]

• Cooling and heating load report

• Local consumption of genererad electric energy

• New diagram: energy consumption per energy carrier

[Beta 23-24]

• Unicode support

• Supported named colors listed in CSS 3.0 standard

[Beta 25]

• IFC import: Use grosspace to obtain the explicit shape of ifc BuildingStorey

• Support copy/paste of coordinates on side bar

• Enhanced support of pictures. Support gif format.

[Beta 26]

• Connection with ProSelect at standard level

• SSF database of shading materials

• More documentation about scripting

[RC 02]

• Revised Standard Edition

• Added Velux wizard

• Restored "Sun + Schedule" shading control and shading field in forms for window and dgf.

[RC 06]

• Parallel simulations

[Build 01] (2016-02-09)

• New vesion of ESBO: 2.0.2

[Build 02] (2016-03-21)

• New vesion of ESBO: 2.0.3

• If the packed idm file is damaged trying to open the unpacked or autosaved file.

• "Save as" suggests to keep the old file format (packed or unpacked)

• "Export to viewer" in packed format

• Velux active house report

• The table view of diagrams shows more decimals when required

• Disabled auto save in batch mode

• Enhanced zone merge (still Beta version)

Changes in models

Cewind Parameter SensorSide
DetWind Added wind speed and temperature limits for integrated shading

DetWind Allow zero side gaps

Shade_C New model (replaces Shade). Supports custom control

CCSimCtr Time constant (tauM, default = 0) on computed MLig.
New local variable for sensible heat QSensible.
dTLiqAct := max(1E-4, TLiqOut - TLiqIn), (as in HCSimCtr)

SyntClim Use ASHRAE 2013 Fundamentals

SlidingAvgMinMax
New model, combined SlidingAverage and simplified version
of SnapMinMax

Polynomial New model, calculates polynomial y=p(u)

LimiterD New model, smooth version of Limiter

Terminator New model, terminate the simulation then the control signal
reaches given level.
Requires new version of solver that is not delivered yet.

A2A_AC Changed default value of TCond_max from 100 to 70
A2A_HP
A2W_Chiller
A2W_HP
B2B_Chiller
B2B_HP

B2B_Chiller The actual liquids may be different from design liquids
B2B_HP

Division Hopefully fixed problem with initialization (division by 0)

Climate Added variable SkyCover
SyntClim Calculating sky temperature

Allot Support control from min to max (was from 0)

Sequencer Parameter OPT (Optimal signal values) changed to vector

[Beta 05]

CEDETZON Allow COP=0. Used if energy consumption is calculated elsewhere.
CESIMZON

CEFAN Warning if air flow is bigger than rated air flow for time >= 30 sec

v3vMixing New models
v3vDivert

[Beta 06]

SimChil Removed variable TLiqEnt

SimBoil max(0, MTot) replaced with MTot because it is never negative

[Beta 07]

PimpCirc PPump calc is changed. It will use PumpOn*PPump instead of phead only.

WinType Supported specular reflection from shading layer (not slats)
Fixed bug in reflection of direct light from the back side of
assymetric shade layer

CEFAN Fixed case VolFlRat = 0

[Beta 08]

CEFAN Linear QSup(VolFlow) when PLR>1. Removed warning.

[Beta 09]

DetWin Allow AL+AR+AH = 0
RPane in case of LW-trasparency

CondIntegrator
Fixed duration output signal (not used in standard ICE)

[Beta 12]

OnOffwTimeInt
On-off controller with time delay before switching on or off
(new model).

[Beta 14]

Detwind Added new calculation procedure for presentation values (QSolar, QSolar1 and UGlass)
Upper limit of h_framepure changed to 1e20
Expresssions for QLWBPane corrected for semitransparent inner/outer shadings by adding terms of TauLWPane
Added solar absorption at frame surfaces, QabsFrameA and QabsFrameB, to heat balance equation
Multiplied expressions for QABackCv and QBBackCv with Shaded to avoid heat transfer when not shaded

TankNoStrat
Min mass flow parameter mmin.

[Beta 15]

Detwind Added equation for inter-gap convection heat transfer, QigCv,
and included this in the cavity energy balance equations
Values for A_Eq1 and A_Eq2 set limited to gap section area when calculating DpZ
Made V_i and V_k independent of d_slat
Added calculation of heat transfer coefficients for calculation of presentation values

A2A_AC Changes in heat pump model
A2W_Chiller
A2W_HP
B2B_Chiller
B2B_HP

[Beta 17]

Detwind Fixed calculation of angles between slats and the sun from back side of window
Fixed reflection from back side in case of asymmetric glass panes

CeWind Added a variable QSolar1, which gives the incoming solar gain to the zone,
as opposed to QSolar, which gives the net solar gain (incoming - outgoing).

[Beta 18]

BrineNode Mass flow equation rewritten

TankNoStrat Min mass flow parameter removed

TankStrat Tidying up the code. Check of position of inlets, outlets,
heat exchangers and auxilliary heaters. Parameter mmin included.

[Beta 20]

TankStrat Changed default roh and cp to agree with defaults in Boil1Circ and Chil1Circ

[Beta 22]

Netting New model. Partially cancels positive and negative values

A2A_AC Parameters TEvap_min and TCond_max lifted to top level for adding to database
A2W_Chiller
A2W_HP
B2B_Chiller
B2B_HP

[Beta 25]

CeWind Added variables for logging total energy flow
Detwind (instead of using QSolar+QTransm).

B2B_HP Fixed bug introduced in Beta 22

[Beta 26]

CeWind The high limit of m_h changed from 1 to 10 (now it is as in ICE standard level)
CeSkylit
CeSkySun

[Beta 27]

CeOpen Q excluded from QSolar (logged separately)
mOpem

CeDetZon TCoil made variable; added input link TCoilLink

[RC 01]

A2A_AC Change of confusing parameter name from cd to Pmin
A2A_HP
A2W_Chiller
A2W_HP
B2B_Chiller
B2B_HP

A2A_AC Events with deadband for CoilDry
A2A_HP
A2W_HP

CeDetZon Fixed latent heat from equipment, occupants and condensation
CeSimZon

[RC 01]

CeWind Upper limit of h_framepure changed to 1/(1/5.8 - 0.17).
DetWind

[RC 02]

Shade_C Fixed combination Light + Schedule

[RC 02]

CELHO Added parameter SLOPE to distinguish between
MLHO opening in ceiling and opening in floor

CELVO Allow slope from 10 to 170 degrees (was to 90)

[RC 06]

MicroCHP New model

OnOffwDelay Version with time events only

Fixed bugs

• Detecting Unicode plot files

• Fixed animation of air quality variables

• Fixed bug in rounding of numbers near to 1.0 (0.97 was sometimes rounded to 0.9)

[Build 01] (2016-02-09)

• Fixed bugs in checking versions and licenses

• Fixed initialization of zones created from IFC (required for some localizations only)

• Fixed error in copying zones

• Fixed shading in double-glass facade

• Fixed wind and temp limits for user-defined external shadings

• Fixed sorting by date column

• Fixed "Remove results" to keep built-in "output" objects

[Build 02] (2016-03-21)

• Fixed error in user interface after removing windows

• Avoid crash when opening buildings with invalid shape

• Fixed logging variables with multipliers

• Fixed some problems with non-ASCII names

• Fixed zone multipliers in building occupancy diagram

• Fixed fan cooler in ESBO (did not work)

• Fixed climate downloads from E+ after changes on E+ site

• Fixed translation of sveby climate files.

• IFC import: Fixed max height of a building and a storey

• Fixed bug in IDA Solver

• Fixed daylight diagram header

• Fix of problem when no zone-energy-reports at all in multizone report.

• Fix bug temp-license resending when upgrading license.

• Fixed conflict with ICE 4.6.x in using common folder

• Fixed some conflicts between multiple ICE sessions

• Fixed custom dynamic startup (for custom simulations)

• Fixed Plant Cooling diagram in ESBO (was name conflict with cooling simulation)

• Fixed Undo/Redo of array links

• Fixed calculation of volume of imported building body

• Fixed diagrams in reports on high-resolution monitors with magnification

• Fixed calculation of position of openings in "hanging" (i.e., not adjacent
  to floor) walls and faces

• Fixed error in upgrading of window opening control from ICE 4.6
  in user-defined window types (resource windows)

• Fixed possibility to switch resource from [default] to non-[default]
  and back in resource dialogs (the switch was not stored after closing
  the dialog)

• Fixed simulating advanced system in batch mode (also used when running
  system parallel, e.g., in version projects)

• Fixed updating of design power of cooling/heating panels with manufacturer's data
  when moving the device partially out of enclosing surface.

• Fixed undo/redo for beams and cooling/heating panels with manufacturer's data

• Fixed pathname of HTML report file in case of non-ASCII temporary folder
  (e.g., in case of non-ASCII user name)

• Fixed (maybe) copy/paste of long text to and from text panes and fields

• Disables Paste to palette pane

• Testing values of optical parameters of panes and shade materials (error if sum>1)

• Swegon CO2 control changed back to Proportional

• Release date set to 01feb16 to allow installing by users that had valid support at that time.
  The build date is now displayed in About dialog instead or release date.

• Fixed daylight saving time correction in edit/save time

• Fixed column "CO2" in heating summary table