EP Custom Materials

Hello again Mostapha!

When I attempt to make a custom glazing material it isn't able to run through the ep sim component. The simulation works just fine with default materials, and I believe I've added my glazing to the ep library correctly so I'm not sure what's wrong. The reported fatal error is that it can't "GetSurfaceData"

If you have a free moment would you mind taking a look at my file to see what I'm not doing right?

Very much appreciated in advance, thank you!

Aaron

Further%20Testing2.gh

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Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on October 24, 2014 at 6:10pm

Hi Aaron,

I have finished making a glass material component and you can see it implemented in the attached GH file. This should allow you to make very customizable window constructions with different glass properties in different layers, etc. You can also adjust the thickness of the air layer between the panes of glass to get better or worse insulation. The only real limitation now is that you cannot yet put in gasses other than air between the glass. I can try to build in this functionality if there is a lot of demand for it but, realistically, it seems many of the window manufacturers don't certify the lifetime of the exotic gases like Argon and Krypton beyond 20 years (due to inevitable leaking) so my initial reaction is to just stick to the air layers.

In any case, I also took the opportunity to re-write the descriptions for all of the material component inputs (including the units of the inputs) so this should hopefully make things easier in the future. You can get these new material components by syncing with the github.

Let me know if there are any other requests.

-Chris

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