Can EPWFile be used to create an EPW / or is this planned for the future?

[DaveInCaz]

Reading page: https://openstudio-sdk-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/cpp/OpenStudio-2.1.1-doc/utilities/html/classopenstudio_1_1_epw_file.html#aca9dd7efbf84275198bc75cc7949b1ca

Under Detailed Description it says:

EpwFile parses a weather file in EPW format.
Later it may provide methods for writing and converting other weather files to EPW format.

My question is about the "it may provide" statement - are there any concrete plans for this, or more generally is there any existing OS class / method to write out an EPW file?

Thanks!

[jasondegraw]

@DaveInCaz The short answer to whether it can or not is "yes". But there's probably some assembly required. Reading of the data was added because I needed to translate EPW to CONTAM's WTH format. There's ancient C++ in epw2wth.cpp that does it. It won't compile because it is hopelessly out of date, but it shows basically what can be done. I thought I had made a Ruby version but I can't seem to find it. I'll look around and see if I can dig it up. I can't speak to whether there is are any expansions planned

[DaveInCaz]

Thanks Jason. Over the long haul if formal support is added to OpenStudio to read & write EPW file I might use that, but I think if custom development is needed we'd probably take another route. I imagine other people might also find this capability useful.