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ASHRAE 62.1 (2004)

Contains controls used to view the ASHRAE 62.1 calculation results, and to review and save/print documentation required for complying with the ASHRAE 62.1-2004 standard.

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  • Ribbon: Energy Simulator > Calculations > Prescriptive Calculations > ASHRAE 62.1 > ASHRAE 62.1 (2004)


SettingDescription
Select Rooms Click to select and deselect the rooms displayed in the report. Clicking the icon changes the layout of the dialog. Rooms can be selected/deselected individually by clicking on them, or select/deselect all by clicking the two buttons provided.
  • Select all — Used to select all rooms with a single click.
  • Deselect all — Used to deselect all rooms with a single click.
  • OK — Applies all changes and closes the Room selection view.
  • Cancel — Cancels all changes, and closes the Room selection view.
Toolbar Located along the top of each of the dialog tabs, the toolbar provides controls for viewing, navigating, printing and exporting reports.
The controls from left to right are:
  • Navigate back/forward in history - Disabled
  • Stop - Click to stop regeneration of the reports.
  • Refresh - Click to refresh the results being displayed.
  • First page - Click to jump to the first page of the report. Enabled when "Switch to print preview" is selected.
  • Previous page - Click to jump to the previous page in the report. Enabled when "Switch to print preview" is selected.
  • Next page - Click to jump to the next page in the report. Enabled when "Switch to print preview" is selected.
  • Last page - Click to jump to the last page of the report. Enabled when "Switch to print preview" is selected.
  • Page setup - Opens the Page Setup dialog.
  • Switch to print preview / interactive view - Click to change the layout of the report. The print preview allows you to view each printed page. It activates the navigation buttons (first, previous, next, last page). The interactive view (default) displays the reports in a single scrollable page.
  • Print report - Prints the report.
  • Zoom - Selects a zoom factor from the available drop down menu.
  • Close document map - Click to hide/unhide the table of contents (left panel).
  • Save - Used to save as/export the report to the following formats:
    • Acrobat (PDF) file
    • CSV (comma delimited)
    • Excel 97-2003
    • Rich Text Format
    • TIFF file
    • Web Archive
Dialog tabs The dialog is divided into two main panels. A selection panel (left) to select which portion of the report to display, and a report display panel (right) to view, save and print the reports. See the "tab" topic links below for details.
Key-in: BBSENERGYANALYSIS CALCULATE ASHRAE6212004