Problems with Honeybee E+ context shading component

Hello everyone,

I'm pretty new to Grasshopper and Honeybee and I'm trying to run a daylight/energy analysis for custom shading. I want to calculate heat gain with the E+ analysis putting my shading in as context shading.

The analysis runs fine without the shading, but as soon as I connect the context shading component it fails. I've tried using some other breps as shading just to check if the problem is my shading geometry (is it possible that it's just too complicated?), however, so far, the only thing that worked was a plain cube.

If I aditionally connect a transparency schedule, even that fails. Depending on what I tried, I got all different kinds of warnings, so I don't really know what to do anymore.

I've attached the file with the analysis. Hopefully somebody here can help me out.

Thanks in advance

Attachments:

Analyse Alu ohne Versatz eplus.gh, 547 KB

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Permalink Reply by S221B on November 26, 2015 at 4:08am

P.S.

the shading will only be created correctly with the right Rhino-template, that is "Meters for small objects"

Permalink Reply by S221B on November 30, 2015 at 1:17am

No ideas?

Permalink Reply by Anton Szilasi on November 30, 2015 at 9:46am

Hi there,

Sorry about no one getting back to you about this. I'm having a look now and I'll see what I can find.

Permalink Reply by Anton Szilasi on November 30, 2015 at 10:18am

It works fine for me on my system except for the fact that when I connect the HBcontext surfaces to the simulation it runs extremely slowly but that is to be expected when you have 5100 surfaces. What warnings are you getting exactly? Can you post pictures of the warnings that you are getting and the components that you are getting them from.

Permalink Reply by S221B on December 1, 2015 at 6:04am

Hi there,

thanks for taking a look.

I used to get different error messages, one of them about the transparency schedule not being found, even though it was saved in the right folder. I don't remeber what the other messages were about. At the moment, if I connect HB_context the simulation runs without producing an error message, however the Read_results components tell me "1. The result file does not exist.". I checked the folder they shoul be in and they really don't exist, which is no surprise, because the simulation runs suspiciously fast (2 minutes or so).

I've also made up a new file with a somewhat simplified geometry and been playing around with the meshingSettings from the HBContext component as well es with the maximumFigure from the ShadowPar (at this point in my simulations I'm satisfied with relatively low-quality results). That one works fine, still takes a lot of time, sadly, but I guess there's just no way to get a really fast calculation for this kind of shading?

Permalink Reply by Anton Szilasi on December 1, 2015 at 7:05am

With this kind of shading no there really isnt a way to do it quicker.

Permalink Reply by S221B on December 2, 2015 at 1:35am

all right, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions!

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