Geco - UserProblems

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Permalink Reply by to] on May 4, 2012 at 3:55am

Hi,

please downlaod the actual version for GH080066 and not for one of the first releases.

This version includes a installer.

Please make sure that you delete the files you copied.

thx

Permalink Reply by Francisco Calvo on May 18, 2012 at 12:52am

Hi, I have a problem using the weatherfile component, I don't know what is it, I have the last Geco and GH 0.8.0066 instaled and the Ecotect 2011 on my computer.

please help!!

Permalink Reply by to] on May 18, 2012 at 3:55am

toggle true false or link the wea - component directly

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on June 6, 2012 at 5:23am

Hello uto,

One of my students has an issue with the mesh exporter. When ecotect is called, there is a script error as seen in the image attached.His windows version is in a non-english language. I think some of the special characters are messing things up, or it might be a permissions issue. When he exports points he has no issue, only with the mesh exporter. Any idea? Thanks,

Luis

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on June 7, 2012 at 12:30am

Thanks to to] for providing a quick answer. Unfortunately/Fortunately this particular student has a name with characters that get jumbled at some point in the process. The culprit character was: ö. The quick solution was to have the student make a new user on his computer which does not use these characters. Everything worked fine after this.

Thanks!
Luis

Permalink Reply by Matteo Birocchi on June 20, 2012 at 10:38am

Hi uto,

I am trying to create a model that maximize the direct radiation that enters in the room. I would like Galapagos to find me the optimal configuration of the internal shelf (that are rotating mirrows) to have the maximum radiation inside the room...

The problem is that it doesn't work. It works on ecotect but then I can't visualize the results in galapagos. I can see just 2 results and no more.

Furthermore the best would be to perform the calculation with radiance..

Can you suggest me how to do it?

Thanks a lot

Matteo

Attachments:

RhinoDaylightModel.3dm, 64 KB
Geco_2_Rad Sample4.gh, 54 KB

Permalink Reply by veaturn on July 8, 2012 at 10:20am

hi uto,

i have a problem when use geco-ecotect to do solar access analysis

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on July 8, 2012 at 3:26pm

We get a problem with the Boolean input in Insolation Calculation component that changes from make calculus in grid or objects. We set it to calculate over grid but in the next run it always changes internally (the boolean value didn't changes) to object...We test in the classroom with diferent machines and always get the same error.

Always runing last Rhino + grasshopper and Ecotect 2010.

Best Regards.

P.D.: If you need the files I could send it to you ;)

Permalink Reply by Nezumi on July 23, 2012 at 11:22pm

Hello everyone , i am a beginner and i am using Rhino5(64bit) . I encountered with a problem while setting up Geco-Grasshopper .The problem is the installation program shutting down and showing no massage of successful installed massages . When i open the grasshopper and find nothing changed .

Please help me....I at a loss of words.

Permalink Reply by Neil on August 1, 2012 at 1:47pm

I have been playing around with Geco and really love it! Amazing tool . . . However, I am having trouble calculating incident solar radiation on my model while taking into consideration the immediate context (without calculating the entire context with my model at the same time - which is time consuming).

Is it possible to have ecotect run the insolation calculations on one object - while calculating the "shadows" cast by surrounding objects - and using the GECO functions?

Thank you so much!

Permalink Reply by veaturn on August 15, 2012 at 3:12am

fail to import mesh to ecotect ,waiting for help