Geco - UserProblems

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Permalink Reply by Peter Liebsch on April 13, 2011 at 9:18pm

Did it slightly different now and tried to introduce an analysis grid over the ground plane. That's pretty much what I need anyway. It seems to do something and calculates something in Ecotect but the values are all 0. Any idea? Is it just a matter of scale?

Best,

Peter

Attachments:

Geco 10.3dm, 52 KB
geco 10.ghx, 640 KB

Permalink Reply by to] on April 14, 2011 at 2:41am

Hi Peter,

sorry for answering a bit late,....

you did only one little mistake, you forgot to switch from object to grid

take a look on the attached images.

cheers,

[uto]

Permalink Reply by Peter Liebsch on April 14, 2011 at 11:51pm

Hi [uto]

Thanks for that. Getting there step by step.

Came across another problem... Try to calculate the radiation on the facade panels or the building envelop in general. I based it on the same lines from Rhino and worked with a linear extrusion. Ecotect seems to flip the values inside out. I think because the geometry is not capped. I tried everything in GH to get a straight extrusion with a cap from a simple line from Rhino. No success so far.

Any idea how to model it clean and still have control over the quad size/number?

Best,

Peter

Attachments:

geco 20 out.ghx, 695 KB
Geco 20 out.3dm, 54 KB

Permalink Reply by to] on April 15, 2011 at 3:21am

Hi Peter,

if you create curves in rhino and you want to have the surface normals pointing outwards make sure you have created them clockwise otherwise the topology of the geometry is wrong and you will always get wrong results

about the second request just take a look on the attached file

cheers,

[uto]

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geco20out-cap.gh, 148 KB

Permalink Reply by Mete Kutlu on April 15, 2011 at 1:27pm

Hello uto,

I just started to use Geco. Really nice tool!

Quick question: Is it possible to transfer the visibility analysis results on a 2D analysis grid to Rhino?

Thanks.

Permalink Reply by to] on April 16, 2011 at 5:15am

Hi Mete,

it is possible to transfer any Grid which was precalculated within Ecotect to GH.

Just use the ImportAnalysisGridComponent and the MeshGridComponent.

cheers,

[uto]

Permalink Reply by Ben Silverman on April 22, 2011 at 11:36am

Hello,

I am running some high resolution daylighting analysis. If the ecotect simulation takes more than 5 minutes or so, grasshopper stops paying attention to Ecotect and my simulation does not complete. Is there anyway to change grasshopper's settings to give it a longer attention span.

Thanks,

Ben

Permalink Reply by to] on April 22, 2011 at 11:40am

Hi Ben,

The Analysis does not stop (ecotect will finish your calculation)

This Timeout is a security reason and also let the user continue his/her work in RH

after it is finished just refresh the ecotectlink and request the final analysis

[uto]

Permalink Reply by Ben Silverman on April 22, 2011 at 11:44am

Thank you. I had set up all of my Geco components in a domino chain. I'll have to put in another boolean toggle to remind Grasshopper to get the results once the simulation is complete.

Thanks,

Ben

Permalink Reply by Rex T on December 11, 2011 at 3:12pm

Hi [uto]

Sorry to follow up this response a little late but i'm having the same problem recently while running simulation with iteration by Galapagos, once the Timeout problem occurred the results could no more feed to other conponents even if it's possible to retrieve the results manually.

For this I'm really desperate to ask are there any possibility to turn of this Timeout so to last through the whole simulation?

lots appreciation,

Rex

Permalink Reply by to] on December 12, 2011 at 8:27am

Dear Rex,

For the next version we will include a override for that

hope this helps,

best

to]

Permalink Reply by Marco Palma on April 26, 2011 at 5:21am