Patent Document ID: 8930418
Application ID: 13676264

Base Claim:
1. A system for automatically translating and transforming a building architecture file format to a simulation file, comprising: a hardware processor comprising at least a circuit, the hardware processor configured to extract from an input building architecture file, data and metadata used by a target simulation tool, the hardware processor further configured to create interoperability data objects and store the extracted data in the interoperability data objects, the hardware processor further configured to prepare a model translation procedure to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function, the hardware processor further configured to transform the extracted data using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool, the hardware processor further configured to generate the simulation file in the target simulation file format, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to create translation function definitions and fill in the translation and transformation function with data of the one or more interoperability data objects, wherein the translate and transformation function comprises: a function to perform geometric transformation of data values stored in the interoperability data objects to specific building simulation models by converting the data values to geometric values based on at least offset, clipping, and rotation to represent a placement on an energy simulation model file; logic to perform the transforming of the extracted data stored in the interoperability data objects into the target simulation file format; and a function to fill in the module view definition template with the converted geometric values for the simulation file in the target simulation file format.

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Claim 7:
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interoperability data objects represent a set of selected building objects needed to generate a target simulation file used by the target simulation tool.