how to treat glass balustrade/handrail as context for solar radiation analysis

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Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on August 21, 2017 at 12:08am

You have to use Honeybee (ladybug doesn't account for material properties).

Define the glass material according to the transmittance/reflection properties. You probably need to set a medium/high quality or manually set the -ab to a fair high value.

Probably Sarith or other gurus in Radiance can provide better recommendations.

-A.

Permalink Reply by Mel King on August 21, 2017 at 12:48am

Thanks for your reply Abraham!

to confirm:

I set the properties with honeybee, than feed that honeybee object into the context of the ladybug radiation Analysis?

Thanks again

Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on August 21, 2017 at 1:12am

No.

You need to set the whole process in Honeybee.

You can see some examples in hydra, like this or this or this or this.

-A.