RAD material problem

Hi everyone,

I have worked with DIVA for Rhino and already tried DIVA for GH, but I just started. Now I want to use Honeybee for more controlled simulations. In DIVA for GH there is no problem using the material from C:\DIVA\Daylight\material.

In Honeybee I wasn't able to import this RAD file. I had to add every material with the addtolibrary component.

Yesterday, HB told me about the new version, so I've done the update. Looks like there are some very helpful new tools... but I can't get HB to fly (Ladybug flies).

The addto/callfromlibrary component says:

1. Solution exception:honeybee_RADMaterialAUX

Never had this Problem before and I don't know how to solve it.

Please, can you help?

Jakob

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Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on March 11, 2016 at 8:23am

Jakob,

Try copy/paste the materials from the DIVA file to the HoneybeeRadMaterials.mat file, usially locates at c:\ladybug.

-A.

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on March 11, 2016 at 9:23am

Hi Jacob,

Have you changed the source code? By default Honeybee should not be importing materials from Diva.

In honeybee you can copy all your custom materials to (ladybugFolder\HoneybeeRadMaterials.mat). Make sure to leave an empty line between each two materials.

Back to the error if you upload the material.RAD file here I can tell you why Honeybee can't import the material from your file.

Mostapha

Permalink Reply by Jakob Schmidt on March 15, 2016 at 4:18am

Hi,

I haven't changed the source code, at least not consciously.

The material.RAD is the standard file from DIVA.

I removed HB+LB and put them in again, problem stays the same.

This cracks me up, do I have to reinstall Grasshopper? If so, how to do this properly?

Jakob

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on March 15, 2016 at 8:26pm

I don't have DIVA so I need your file to give it a try.

I don't think reinstalling helps. We should figure out why the component is even trying to import the file in the first place.

Mostapha

Permalink Reply by Jakob Schmidt on March 16, 2016 at 2:52am

This is the file.

Attachments:

material.rad, 7 KB

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on March 17, 2016 at 11:08pm

I tried the file and I can't recreate the problem. It imports all the materials with no issues. Can you try the attached file and let me know if it works for you?

Attachments:

importRadIssue.gh, 433 KB

Permalink Reply by Sarith Subramaniam on March 18, 2016 at 1:24am

Mostapha, I tried too and I couldn't recreate it either...by the way, do you know why is Honeybee reading the file Material.rad from C:\Diva\Daylight in the first image ?

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on March 19, 2016 at 8:17am

That's what I'm trying to figure out too. The library name is explicitly set: os.path.join(self.HoneybeeFolder, "HoneybeeRadMaterials.mat"

Permalink Reply by Jakob Schmidt on March 18, 2016 at 2:46am

Attached file didn't work either.

I changed the default folder to C:\Ladybug and it works!

But C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Ladybug doesn't (shows C:\Diva\Dayl... error).

How can I set the default folder to C:\Ladybug as standard?

Importing materials is also no longer a problem.

Thank you for your time. I appreciate your work very much and I hope next time I will ask something more important.

-Jakob

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on March 19, 2016 at 8:23am

Thanks Jacob for reporting back. Can you share with me the initial file? By checking the line numbers we should be able to find why this issue is happening at the first place.

Permalink Reply by Jakob Schmidt on March 21, 2016 at 6:43am

The HoneybeeScript?

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