URBANopt Retrofiting Scenarios in Dragonfly

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Hi all,

I’m working on a Dragonfly simulation and trying to handle multiple retrofitting scenarios for each building. Currently, I’m creating a separate project for the retrofitting scenarios with the new parameters. However, I was wondering if there’s a way to use the original Dragonfly simulation as the baseline and add the retrofitting scenarios as UrbanOpt measures.

This approach could help me avoid creating a new project from scratch, along with all the associated files and simulations.

Is it possible to run an UrbanOpt-Dragonfly project without rebuilding everything? If so, how can I modify or introduce the retrofitting properties—whether through measures or directly with code?

Thank you so much for your help!

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Hi @Batiste

You can do that, but there is a better solution to apply parametric studies. Colibri is useful for this purpose. URBANopy measures are nice but are a bit complicated, you need to know how Ruby measures work properly.

You could search Colibri in this forum, there are some good tickets and chats for that.

Hope this help