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Comment by Alessandro Liuti on October 22, 2012 at 4:34pm

Hi to all,

I've been trying to solve the following issue:
Panel_1 absorbs "n" peak solar radiation per day (kWh/m2).
If I add Panel_2 at its bottom edge (obj. type panel; material mirror), I want to evaluate the increase of solar absorption "n+∆n" on Panel_1 (kWh/m2), depending on the tilt of Panel_2.

I can't state any difference between the case with and the case without Panel_2 - therefore no result can be optimized within Galapagos.
Does reflected radiation need particular considerations? Shall I change strategy? 

I hereby enclose the definition; thanks for your help,

Alessandro.

121022_AL.gh

Comment by Petar Pejic on October 12, 2012 at 7:27pm

Thank you for your answer. I see a lot of people has this similar problem. I would like to analyse just the inside of the block building, while the exterior shape will be changing with each step, controlled by a galapagos.

It would be really nice if you could give more like a step by step instruction how to deal with this issue.

Regards,

Petar

Comment by to] on October 12, 2012 at 5:55pm

Hi Petar,

follow this link

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/geco/forum/topics/calculate-cert...

Comment by Petar Pejic on October 11, 2012 at 12:29pm

Hey, is it possible to export geometry to ecotect but use it just for blocking ligh, not to perform an actual analyse on it, just as an environment. 

Comment by to] on October 4, 2012 at 9:02am

Hi Jon,

Please post such message in the Geco-User Problems so everybody has a benefit and the threads are sorted to the according plug-in.

Ecotect defines the meshnormal with the right hand order so the meshnormal does not count in this case (counter clockwise)

1: if you want to reload just rewire the ecolink and then the component you want to refresh.

2: many instances are used for different materials or for surrounding buildings and terrain

Thanks for your feedback and welcome to the group

Comment by John Gulliford on October 4, 2012 at 8:48am

Hi Jacopo, thank you for your direction. It turns out that I can create the meshes through 'Mesh UV' although the normals were flipped, strangely they work when normals are pointing down. I am a little confused why this would be. Any insight would be welcomed.

I also am having trouble reloading results from Ecotect after rhino times it out. I have read the solution many times but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

Another question, when do you create many instances of EcoMeshExport? If I have two surfaces should I use two instances of EcoMeshExport? Using one instance works for SolarRad, I would assume you would use multiple for applying different materials to different surfaces, but when is that applicable? What sort of Calc?

Lastly, Thank you to Geco for an awesome tool! Looking at Ecotect's interface makes me dizzy! Its also incredible that we can build on initial setups and chunks of code, collective knowledge prevails!

Comment by Jacopo Baldini on October 3, 2012 at 1:58pm

Hi John, I think the problem is how you made the two surfaces / meshes...Try to make two surfaces in rhino and then selected this from grasshopper...should works fine see the pictures... ^_^ you should check also the normals with the command -> dir

cheers

Comment by John Gulliford on October 3, 2012 at 12:33pm

Geco_SolarAccessAnalysis_GH09.3dm

Geco_SolarAccessAnalysis_GH09.gh

I am having trouble wiring up more then one mesh. I have attached a sample problem. Shouldn't the base surface have less radiation where the top surface is obstructing the view to the sun?

Comment by Jacopo Baldini on August 1, 2012 at 4:22am

Hello to all,

this is my thesis project, experimantation whit geco and grasshopper

http://bit.ly/MYHpyW

I hope someone likes my job, cheers

Comment by jack thomas on June 16, 2012 at 4:36am

thank you for the help!!!

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