Ecotect wind analisys problem

Hi Everybody!

I'm trying to analyze for wind one mesh but I have a problem with ecotect or GH... to analyze the wind I'm using winair4 in ecotect in this way:

1. I create a mesh in rhino

2. I export the mesh into ecotect via geco

3. I create the cells for analyze the mesh

4. I create the boundaries

5. I run the winair4 plugin.

The problem is that when I use a mesh imported from GH the winair plugin doesn't run. It only runs when I make the geometry in ecotect...

Does anyone knows where is the problem? Maybe in the way I export the mesh? (but I've tried in putting the mesh as all the types: wall, partition, floor...)

Thank you for your help!

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Permalink Reply by Francisco José Romera Fernández on January 25, 2012 at 3:06pm

Hi Thomas,

There is no problem with the winair4. I only put the date (as you say) at 2005 and it works.

I only want to work with a mesh imported from GH. First, with the actually date, I export the mesh, and then I change the date at 2005 for run the winair.

Permalink Reply by Francisco José Romera Fernández on January 25, 2012 at 3:54pm

Hi again Amaury,

Yes, for me it's better to have this situation, but as you say, I think isn't possible. I would be satisfied if I can do what I've told you and export a mesh that works.

Permalink Reply by Francisco José Romera Fernández on January 26, 2012 at 10:19am

Hi Amauri,

Even when I use a mesh from rhino it doesn't work... it only works with geometries made in ecotect... I don't know where is the problem...

Permalink Reply by °[u on January 27, 2012 at 8:22am

Hi Francisco,

you are right, this seems to be a bug...

couldn't fix it yet, but we'll hopefully can fix it before the next release...

for the moment a work around:

it works for me if I also generate the 3dgrid with Geco...

please take a look at the attached GH definition

Attachments:

120127_CFD_ 3D_air_flow_grid.gh, 24 KB

Permalink Reply by Francisco José Romera Fernández on January 30, 2012 at 11:03am

Hi Ursula,

Thank you very much! In the way you've said it works! It will be perfect if It was a real time flow between GH and winair but for now, for me, it's perfect!

Best Regards,

Fran!

Permalink Reply by Francisco José Romera Fernández on January 30, 2012 at 11:20am

Hi again,

Do you know if there is a way to take all the vector of the grid at the same time? At the moment I can only get the vectors of one plane... I Think maybe there is a way to put all the vector in a excel document and then export them into GH but when I open the outputs files from winair I don't see nothing for do this... Any Idea?

Thank you as always!

Fran!

Permalink Reply by a-ngine on March 10, 2012 at 5:18am