Tabular Space Data is a feature within the Virtual Environment that allows you to rapidly inspect and modify the standard thermal attributes, internal gains and air exchanges for rooms in your models. It provides access to a similar set of data to that available via the standard Query Room and Edit Group Attributes features, but provides the information in a modeless, tabular form. This means that the information for the rooms is displayed automatically and does not prevent you from working with the model – if you select a room, it is automatically displayed in the Tabular Space Data grid.
In addition to providing a fast and efficient way for you to edit room attributes in your model, Tabular Space Data provides a number of other useful features:
- Customizable columns, allowing you to choose exactly which variables you want to see
- Sorting, allowing you to sort all grid data either ascending or descending by any column
- Filtering, allowing you to only display rooms which pass one or more different criteria
- Export and Import of displayed Space Data, allowing you to externally edit the values for your rooms (e.g. using Microsoft Excel) and then re-import the changes to automatically apply them to your model.
Where does it fit within the Virtual Environment?
Tabular Space Data is currently available within the following Virtual Environment modules:
Depending on your current module licensing, you may not have access to all of these modules. However, there is no additional license required to use Tabular Space Data in the above modules.
Virtual Environment 2014 Feature Pack 2 introduces the following new feature:
- Ability to lock columns in view within a tab. One or more columns can now be locked to the left of a tab, meaning they are always visible when scrolling horizontally through the grid.
