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Permalink Reply by to] on September 27, 2012 at 8:12am

Hi Cheng,

i am sorry i really can not reproduce your problem here. tried in rh4 and rh5

i am using ecotect 2011 which should be no difference because they just raised the version number.

can you post your file thx

Permalink Reply by Cheng Ruochen on September 27, 2012 at 9:28am

Thanks for your reply

Here is my file. I've download your example Geco_SolarAccessAnalysis_GH08, it appears the same problem: Connection with running instance of Ecotect was not successful...you are sure Ecotect ist running?

I've tried Ecotect 2010 and Ecotect 2011， both of them have same problem

Attachments:

test.gh, 5 KB

Permalink Reply by to] on September 27, 2012 at 9:40am

i tried your file on 3 different computers around our office and i can not reproduce your error. Try to uninstall geco with the windows uninstaller and reinstall it again and make sure you do not have it in the specai folder location.

This problem iks not related to our product. Iwould also recommend you tu upgrade to GH0.9.0012

Permalink Reply by Thomas Perkov on September 30, 2012 at 12:26pm

Hey! I Cant find the problems? it's first time I try to find the daylight factor in grasshopper..

1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hgwy3yf8f4napy/ECOTECT_DF_TEST.gh Problem ?!

2. https://www.dropbox.com/s/gz4ygck6py1adqm/ecotect_test_DF.gh Problem ?! (same?)

3. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/geco/forum/topics/example-files-... (update plzz?)

Permalink Reply by stefano vafiadis on October 9, 2012 at 3:19am

Dear Uto,

I was doing several incident solar radiation anlysis with the average daily values of july on some volumes while on this one (a court) i encountered some strange results!

The "roof" values looks reasonable but the "external walls" values they are all the same (and very low)...

I checked the normals already: direction to the sun.

I hope you can really help me!

Thanks,

Stefano///

Attachments:

SEEH_Study V07.3dm, 3.8 MB
Incident Solar Radiation_V01.gh, 61 KB

Permalink Reply by to] on October 9, 2012 at 4:33am

Hi stefano,

the problem why you get wrong results is due to the fact that your mesh normals are in wrong direction. Ecotect has the right hand rule to build up the faces and normals that means that it is different to rhino. please make sure before you run a calculation that you check in ecotect with CTRL+F9 in 3d editor view that they are oriented correctly and change them accordingly

attached a screenshot and the corrected file

[uto]

Attachments:

IncidentSolarRadiation_V01_mesh_normals_corrected.gh, 63 KB

Permalink Reply by stefano vafiadis on October 9, 2012 at 5:19am

Now everything works.

Thanks uto, without your help i would never have discovered this normals issue!

Permalink Reply by ranveli neville on October 22, 2012 at 2:44am

Hi all,

I am trying to import rhino geometry to ecotect through geco, then take the information back into grasshopper to do further operations. I have been successfully doing that in simpler geometries but not in the particular rhino file attached- the lighting calculation fails to import the data back into grasshopper after ecotect finishes calculating daylight factor.

any help will be greatly appreciated!

thanks!

Attachments:

1_.gh, 11 KB
1_ (2).3dm, 1.5 MB

Permalink Reply by to] on October 28, 2012 at 6:55am

Hi,

just rewire (not true false) the boolean toggle of eco link and the ecoobject request component.

Geco has a timeout of 5 minutes after that the linkage is reset and grasshopper is free again.

Hope this inforamton helps. The next release geco will operate in a seperate thread so this will not interfere GH anymore and we will remove or customize the timeout.

best

Permalink Reply by Francesco De Luca on November 5, 2012 at 4:01am

Hello,

I post this also here. Some known issues with GecoForGH 1.033 GH 0.9xxxx and Grasshopper 0.9.0014? It's not working (both in Rhino 4 and 5 64) EcoLink doesn't start Ecotect and the other components are red just after having been grabbed o canvas. Thank you.

Francesco

Permalink Reply by to] on November 5, 2012 at 6:56am

There is no known issue and no other reports. Please delete or uninstall geco and just install 1.0.33 again and do not copy them around on your own because there are file dependencies.

If you use the new rhino5 only version than you have to copy geco.gha and gecolink.dll to the rhino5/grasshopper/components folder.

thank you

Permalink Reply by Francesco De Luca on November 5, 2012 at 2:14pm

Hello Thomas,

I write here what I also wrote in the Grasshopper website.

I use the 0.9.0014 still the version for both Rhino 4 and 5.

Anyway I solved it, or at least it look like working so far, I didn't test everything in Geco yet.

I just moved the two files geco.gha and gecolink.dll from the folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Rhinoceros 4.0\Plug-ins\Grasshopper

where they were automatically installed to the folder for the GH plug-ins:

C:\Users\"user name"\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries

but this is the first time it is necessary to do so, before Geco was working straight after installation.