Geco - UserProblems

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Permalink Reply by djordje on February 23, 2013 at 3:03pm

Hi Thomas,

Tried that too, and got the same result: after running the Geco, Ecotect changes the material color to it's default one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxqjep_ecotect-new-material-2_tech

Any help?

Permalink Reply by to] on March 8, 2013 at 2:27am

Hi,

did it worked now for you?

I can’t reproduce this problem?

Please follow my description

best

Permalink Reply by djordje on March 8, 2013 at 4:35am

Hi Tomas,

What description? Adding the edited material to the Global Library? I already did that. The same result, ecotect simply reversed the new material colour to the original one.
The way I succeeded in "not allowing" ecotect to reverse it back to the original colour is to use an additional boolean toggle at EcoSetUserMaterial component.
Because for some reason, when ever I just used boolean toggle at "EcoMeshExport" after changing the colour of the custom material in Ecotect (like in previous video), it did not work.
Now with this new boolean toggle, it works - meaning that colour does not reverse to it's original one. On the other hand the results are incorrect - because "EcoObjectRequest" outputs the same values for daylight factors in case of material with dark colour, and the same material but with bright colour - which is impossible. Material with too dark colour should absorb more light than the bright one. Therefor the illuminance and finally daylight factors should be at smaller than in case of the same material of a bright colour.
But as you can see in this new video, that is not the case, and the daylight factors simply remain the same:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy1rnl_ecotect-new-material-3_tech

Which is incorrect, if the colour of the material truly changed.

Any help?

Danke.

Permalink Reply by Cherif Ben Bacha on January 11, 2016 at 6:44am

Hi djordje how does the eco set user material component work? I need if possible an exemple to follow it ,please it's so importante for my thesis progress ,thank's"

Permalink Reply by Randy Tsai on March 13, 2013 at 9:26pm

hi uto:

I have some question about shadow studies using exposure

is that mesh input for exposure solution using "exposure" component just can use rectangle?

because I use 4points to define surface, it's not working..

if can I want use 4points to define a surface as exposure mesh, because in real a site is not always rectangle..

add attachments

thanks for help

Randy

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Permalink Reply by Charlotte Le Dain on April 25, 2013 at 2:54am

Hi,

I'm starting to learn grasshopper and ecotect. I used geco to have the shadows of the vegetation on my site. But instead of projecting its on an horizontal plane I want to project its on a nurbs surface. Do you know how to do this?

Thanks

Permalink Reply by Berk Ekici on April 30, 2013 at 4:17am

Hi [uto],

Geco is really cool component! I enjoy when I am testing my designs...

I wanted to use it with Galapagos for finding the best solution for solar radiation. But I had an error scene.

And for the next time, I will try multi-objective (solar+daylight) evaluation with Octopus. Do you have any advise about it ?

Best,

Berk

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Permalink Reply by Itto Susanto on May 31, 2013 at 1:08am

first of all thanks for building geco it simplify thing so much... but i dont know why the light analysis doesnt correspond with the mesh wall that i build. do you know where i do wrong?

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Permalink Reply by s.ali on June 22, 2013 at 7:48am

Hi uto

I recently downloaded “Geco_DaylightStudies_MeasuringPoints_GH08 “ example and I used that definition for another Geometry but It doesn’t work correctly and ecotect give an error about no matching object found.

I haven’t any idea to resolve it. Please help me to

Best regards’

Seyed ali

Permalink Reply by s.ali on June 24, 2013 at 11:34pm

I haven’t any idea to resolve it. Please help me to

Best regards’

S.ali

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Geco_DaylightStudies_MeasuringPoints.3dm, 14 KB
Geco_DaylightStudies_MeasuringPoints.gh, 19 KB

Permalink Reply by manuelvpardo on June 29, 2013 at 11:04am

I was trying to install geco for a solar analisis and it dosent work, the ecoLink component is in red and says:

"Could not load file or assambly, Version=2.1.563.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken=null or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file especified."

Is there an update of geco?

Im using Rhino 5 sr3 and the latest version of GH 0.90056.

HELP...

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