EPWindowShades error in v0.0.60 Aug_10 release

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on August 23, 2016 at 9:42am

Hi Javed,

I assume Chris will get back to you with a better answer but meanwhile I can tell you why this is happening. If you check the readMe! output it reports that: HBObjWShades will not be generated. shadeBreps will still be produced and you can account for these shades using a 'Honeybee_EP Context Surfaces' component.

This is because the length of the shading is larger than 1. Based on the comment in the code the size larger than 1 meter makes EP crash and that's why the check happens however I'm not sure if that is true in this case. I assume the depth is the critical one which is already less than 1 m (.75).

Let's wait for Chris's input.

Mostapha

PS: Please post your honeybee/ladybug questions to Ladybug forum (www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ladybug/forum). I just realized this is posted under errors, bugs and oversights.

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 23, 2016 at 9:48am

Mostapha said it all!  Thanks for catching this one, Mostapha.

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 23, 2016 at 11:34am

Ah, I just realized that there was something to be clarified in Mostapha's comment.  Yes, the depth of the blind slats cannot be larger than 1 meter or else the EnergyPlus approximation for the behavior of blinds will not be accurate.  You also cannot have a distanceFromGlass that is greater than 1 meter.  For these cases, plug the generated shade breps into the context component as the components suggests.

-Chris

Permalink Reply by Javed Iqbal on August 25, 2016 at 9:13pm

Thank you Chris and Mostapha. This works fine now:). I appreciate.

Mostapha@ In future, I will post all such queries on Ladybug forum. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. 

regards,