Thanks Jeff ! Great plugin. 

Very interesting, I'll try as soon as possible

thanks

wanting for your diva 2.0

Hi Jeff,

Thanks again for your great plugin!

I have plugged a mesh to the solver but got a red component.

Am I missing an input?

Many thanks,

Arthur

Hi.

I am apologizing for being rude, but can anybody show me the way I can use this plugin to calculate solar radiation on my curved surface? Is there a video, or tutorial?

Thank you.

Looking forward to DIVA 2.0.  We've been getting a lot of mileage out of the DIVA GH components.  Thanks for the great work.

Hi,

I have just installed DIVA and I'm noticing that I have a different toolbar for DIVA in grasshopper than the one shown in Jeff's install tutorial video.  My DIVA toolbar for grasshopper only has the "Analysis" and "Materials" icons; I assumed there would be more options after seeing Jeff's video.  I installed the DIVA 1.1f, could this have something to do with the missing grasshopper toolbar items?  Any info would be appreciated.

Best Regards,

MAtthew

Hi Matthew, we are about to release diva 1.9 which will have the new toolbar scheme and a thermal analysis component. The solar tools have been revised and added as a new panel. The nodes component has been integrated into the analysis component to make iterations where the analysis sensors are changing with the geometry work smoother. The tutorials, download, and updated wiki will be synchronized in the next couple days.

DIVA 1.9 is available for download and the wiki has been updated with old and new video tutorials. Let us know any problems or recommendations, thanks.

can some pious soul send me the DIVA grasshopper component? I re-installed grasshopper and DIVA hided. I don't want re-instal DIVA too, it takes too much times and then it is already on my pc istalled.

Hi Davide, the component can be downloaded from the wiki installation page here

Hi, Jeff. I just downloaded the new DIVA and want to try the thermal tools. But I noticed we can only download energyPlus version 7 from the website and it does not work well with DIVA 1.9. Maybe it is because of the folder name? Do you have a solution for this? Thank you.

Hi Xiaoming, You are correct, we noticed the new energy plus release this week which included some changes to the input file which are probably causing the problem. We will hopefully straighten this out soon. Eventually we plan to link a version of energy plus to the installation so it will always be in sync.

can diva for rhino also work with Rhino4 SR8 or only SR9? 

And another confusing question for me, is Daylight component in DIVA 1.9 already climate based? Cuz I see an output of 'daylight autonomy', or it'll wait till DIVA 2.0? 

Yes the current version uses climate based daylight metrics. In the current grasshopper component the default is daylight autonomy, but the data for other climate based metrics are also stored in the results folder.

thanks so much for the reply Jeff!
but i still couldn't work DIVA on SR8, the message tells me I have to get latest version, so that means only SR9? 

Hi all,

first of all, great work, i love the plug-in..

I am at the moment using DIVA for a node radiation map of a facade, and i have a question about the calculation of that. I have results (the client thinks they are way to high) which needs to be proven manually. So my question is: how is Diva calculating the radiation nodes on a plane (simple isolated plane surface), which values from the project info file are used for this calculation and what is the formula of this calculation?

Thanks for your help... 

Hi Nickudi,

Thanks for the great plug-in. I have a couple of problems, though.

I used to have the older version of DIVA for Rhino and just upgraded it to version 1.901 as well as upgrading Rhino to versio 4 SR9 from SR8. I have the GH version 08.0051 installed on my computer.

1. I followed the video tutorials, everything worked fine. However, when I re-launched the GH and tried to open the files I saved. with this errror message saying " Missing object chunk in archive. An object could not be found in the document..." all the DIVA components in the files were gone. Could you tell me why that happened?

2. It seems like the latest version of DIVA crashes more often than the previous verion. Any possible reasons?

Thanks for your help!

Joo Suk,

Try upgrading to the latest version of Grasshopper (0.8.0062).  The serialization methods in GH have changed since 0.8.0051, which may explain the crashes and read/write issues.

-Jon

ps.  Let's start moving these up to the Discussion Forum, so we can follow the threads.

Hi Jeff;

i just changed my windows and tryed to install diva but it seems website is down! do you know how can i find the files to install diva?

best;

We are have server issues and should have the site up again soon. In the meantime diva can be downloaded here. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Jeff

Website is back up.