HOMER Knowledge Base
Exporting HOMER Pro Graphics
There are a few methods of exporting the graphics from HOMER Pro to your documents. The method will depend on what the graphic is.
Exporting the Sensitivity Results in Graphical form:
Method 1 is to simply right click on any of the graphics and select "Export as PNG" as seen below (Figure 1). You can also configure the title, x and y axis labels, the resolution, and the color scheme if you click on Properties instead (only available on select graphs).
Exporting Simulation Graphs:
After you double click on one of the optimization results, you will get a different window with many different graphics for each tab as seen in Figure 2. There are a few methods of extracting these graphics. Because these are dynamic, you cannot right click to save as a PNG. The Method 2 is to just take a screenshot using your preferred software. Windows comes with a program called Snipping tool that works well for this.
Figure 2: Simulation Results Graphics
For Method 3, you can generate a report that includes most of the graphics. This report can either be HTML or PDF format (see Figure 3).
For Method 4 you can export the time series data from the simulation as a CSV (Comma Separated Values) and open in a spreadsheet program like Excel where you can create your own graphics. Figure 4 is for exporting time series data and Figure 5 for exporting the Cash Flow data.
Figure 4: Exporting the Time Series Data as a CSV.
Figure 5: Exporting the Cash Flow Data.
Exporting The Plots within Simulation Results:
This includes the Plot, Scatter Plot, Delta Plot, and Compare graphs as seen in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Plot, Scatter Plot, Delta Plot, and Compare.
For the Scatter Plot, Delta Plot, and Compare, you will need to take a screenshot as described in Method 2.
For the Plot, you can use Method 1 as seen in Figure 7, however this can only be used for the hourly tab. For the other tabs (Monthly, Profile, DMap, Histogram, CDF, and DC) you will need to use Method 2.
Figure 7: Plot Graphs
Exporting the Sensitivity Results in Graphical form:
Method 1 is to simply right click on any of the graphics and select "Export as PNG" as seen below (Figure 1). You can also configure the title, x and y axis labels, the resolution, and the color scheme if you click on Properties instead (only available on select graphs).
Figure 1: Exporting Optimization Graphs
Exporting Simulation Graphs:
After you double click on one of the optimization results, you will get a different window with many different graphics for each tab as seen in Figure 2. There are a few methods of extracting these graphics. Because these are dynamic, you cannot right click to save as a PNG. The Method 2 is to just take a screenshot using your preferred software. Windows comes with a program called Snipping tool that works well for this.
For Method 3, you can generate a report that includes most of the graphics. This report can either be HTML or PDF format (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Generating a Report with Graphics
For Method 4 you can export the time series data from the simulation as a CSV (Comma Separated Values) and open in a spreadsheet program like Excel where you can create your own graphics. Figure 4 is for exporting time series data and Figure 5 for exporting the Cash Flow data.
Exporting The Plots within Simulation Results:
This includes the Plot, Scatter Plot, Delta Plot, and Compare graphs as seen in Figure 6.
For the Scatter Plot, Delta Plot, and Compare, you will need to take a screenshot as described in Method 2.
For the Plot, you can use Method 1 as seen in Figure 7, however this can only be used for the hourly tab. For the other tabs (Monthly, Profile, DMap, Histogram, CDF, and DC) you will need to use Method 2.