Ecotect shadow and sunpath problem with GECO

Hi,

I am using the lastest version of GH and Geco and getting some weird results regarding the shadow and the other few things.

While I send the mesh and perform EcoSolCal, it returns all the values in Wh/m2 where as my ecotect is set to kWh/m2. And for same calculation the file recieves 2 diff data 2 times
Secondly after the insolation calculation, while i hit display shadow ranges the screen goes blank, withour the colors, attributes and some times the sunpath also wont show.

These are the main 2 problems i am having.

Thanks in advance. Hope to get a reply soon, My weather file and the GH def is attached here with

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Main Code_GECO_Opt 3.gh, 66 KB
NDLS.wea, 138 KB

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Permalink Reply by to] on March 7, 2014 at 8:55am

Hi,

Rhino has to be setup in real world units (you are using a height of 160000.000 ????)

The WH/m² is hard coded and just a feedback(we will change that in a future release)....but anyway as a professional you should always evaluate what the values are.

Further i attach a setup of a working geco file as you did some connections wrong which covers question 2.

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geco_setup.gh, 15 KB

Permalink Reply by Avishek Das on March 7, 2014 at 10:09am

ok.Now i get it.and yes all of the dimensions i set was in Milimeters.so the value is 160 meteres. do i need to change the rhino file units to meters and scale accordingly to make it work?

Permalink Reply by to] on March 7, 2014 at 10:13am

Yes exactly, rhino has to be in meter and the vales should then be adapted accordingly.

This is really important as you are simulating environmental data.

Permalink Reply by Avishek Das on March 7, 2014 at 10:28am

Hi, to]

i followed the instructions. but still when i hit show shadow range the screen looks like that. I have attached the images and the script again with the corrections. The rhino file is set to meters and i guess the ecotect scale will be 1000 accordingly.

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