face, the larger the number of modules and system size, there for the higher annual energy generation.baseSurface_ - this input exists only for "PV SWH system size" component. It's purpose is to represent a mounting plane on which the PV modules will be put onto. The dark blue colored roof in the photo below is that mounting surface in this case:
So the size of area of the baseSurface_ is not important but its plane.
2) It is important. It basically sets the initial losses of the system.
If that is the soiling value you have, then yes, you need to add it to the DC to AC derate factor component, and then plug its output to "DCtoACderateFactor_" input. I did that in the attached definition below.
3) The north vector/numeric value is not propagated due to possible independent usage of components.I plugged the 0 value to all three component's which have "north_" input. You can change it to what ever value you need.
Please let me know if I didn't answer completely to your questions, or if you have more of them.…
starting mesh. The geometry of the lines is then modified, through the formfinding routine.
In my second vb component, I need to build an array with 4 columns. Each row represent one face of the mesh (row 0 for face 0, row1 for face 1, ...) and each column represent the number of the edge element. If ABCD is the quad face, column 0 is the number of the edge AB, column 1 is BC, column 2 is CD and column 3 is DA.
So to build this array, I extract the edges of each face with FaceB component then Explode component, and I build the array by comparing each line coming from this to each line coming from MEdges component, with a 2 level nested loop. Here is where I am looking for an efficient way to compare 2 lines...
Is there an easier and faster way to build this array ?…
similar to any other surface in your model. Just model the shadings as surfaces and then assign either translucent material or transparent material (glass) to them and connect them to runDaylight with other Honeybee objects. Is that make sense?
Make sure to use appropriate numbers for -ab, -ad and -aa. Check page 27 of Daysim tutorial for a an example for parameters (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16228160/Daysim3.0.Tutorial.pdf). I should add that the numbers are slightly high in the example though. Here is another reference if you want to know more about RAD parameters: http://www.radiance-online.org/community/workshops/2011-berkeley-ca/presentations/day1/JM_AmbientCalculation.pdf
Mostapha
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you can open the studyFolder (it's one of the outputs of run daylight analysis component.) and check *.bat files. There is a rpict or rtrace line that you can see all the parameters listed. Mine is:
rpict -i -t 10 -vtv -vp 43.111 -74.673 49.782 -vd -0.433 0.750 -0.500 -vu 0.000 0.000 1.000 -vh 54.328 -vv 26.991 -vs 0.000 -vl 0.000 -x 64 -y 64 -af unnamed_IMG.amb -ps 8 -pt 0.15 -pj 0.6 -dj 0 -ds 0.5 -dt 0.5 -dc 0.25 -dr 0 -dp 64 -st 0.85 -ab 2 -ad 20 -as 128 -ar 16 -aa 0.001 -lr 4 -lw 0.050 -av 0 0 0 unnamed_IMG.oct > unnamed_IMG.unf
aa and ad values are changed in this example.
Mostapha
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ace, the resulting surface does not exactly follow the curve. At the protruding edges, the surface falls out of the curve. Whereas at the edges which are going in, the surface forms is a curve of degree-1 i.e. not a smooth curve but lines.
What i want to know is, is this a normal thing in GH? when i have to print, will it print like a proper curve?
Also, at the moment, i have joined all curves together and connected it to surface component to get a surface. If there is any better way, please advise me.
I have attached the design representation and also part of my GH definition.
Any advise will be highly appreciated.
cheers
aB…
te some cut sheets, but not to optmize material, rather define some cut lines. Everything that I am cutting is made of planar wood elements, but there are very specific geometries (mostly straight lines) and I have to put tolerances and radiasas at the corners in order to cut on the cnc mill. Spending time to figure out how to automate is necessary, but I am stuck!
One thing the definition is doing is taking my brep modeled components in rhino and makking them into 2d close curves and laying them side by side. It works...not ideal as its not layed out in a sheet, but that is not the most important part.
Another particular problem is that you will see some notches in the curves, which other pieces will slip into, so different slots need different specific offsets (making them larger) as a toelrance to allow for material play. This I don't even know how to set up so maybe it will just have to wait.
THE MAIN QUESTION, and super important would be, LIFESAVER:
At all 'inward' corners...which I think will always mean concave corners (most are 90 degrees, but are within to sides, instead of a corner sticking out). I'm sure its obviousy, but the reason being the outward corners a circular dril bit can cut, but inward ones need an arc profile extended beyond where the corner of the other piece will fit into. The drill bit i am using is 6mm, so 6mm diamters arcs is what i'm working with.
I have managed to put such an arc at every vertices of each cut piece. The problem being some stick outward isntead of cutting into the piece. So each one needs to be orieneted correctly. Ideally they would also only draw into inward corners, but I can always delete them out. I think maybe I am missing a more logical mathematical way of defining?
For these geometries it is not very important which side the half circle arc in on in the inward corners, but I also have some geometries that I will have to control where the circles face according to the rest of the cut piece.
The cutouts in the middle of the pieces that are curves do not need such corners obviously.
The picture is an example drawn
I hope this isn't too specific and long. in general though automating fabrication, and controling pracitcal math and orientation problems like this is itnersting to me!
THANKS…
perienced with grasshopper, but so far I've managed to combine the following:
Giulio Piacentino's "Catenary arch from height" script
Pirouz Nourian's "Mobius" script (Obtained from a friend)
End Result:
Here's where I'm stuck: I want the mobius twist to revolve around the midpoint of the arch, but the script uses the input values to determine the endpoints, resulting in a weird sinuous shape when viewed from above. Also, the secondary end points (generated by the mobius script, determining the width of the surface) are generated by default along the z axis, resulting in an arch that only touches the "ground" at two points. I attempted to work around this issue by trying to force the zHeight parameter to correspond with the y axis (thus rotating the arch 90 degrees so it would lay "flat"), but the script interprets the third point as a value and not as an actual point to bisect. I thought this might be an issue with the C# component that I obtained from Giulio Piacentino's script, so I attempted to tinker around with the source code. Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in C# so I only managed to mess everything up (I've since recovered the code from the cache). Anybody got some ideas? -BC …
(tree info, relationships to certain other objects, etc.) after it's been baked, so that our team can hand tool some of the results, delete certain objects, etc. I'm using the doc.objects.find(guid) function right now - which works fine when I feed a string into the VB component and set the input as a GUID, but am having a hard time casting my strings from Excel into the GUID directly in the VB component. Hopefully it's easy to do and I can whack my palm on my face, as often I do. Here's my script...I get the "specified cast is not valid" error at: Dim obj As Guid = xlSheet.Range(strGUIDColumn & I).Value.
If activate = True Then
Dim xlApp, xlSheet As Object
xlApp = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Excel.Application")Dim strSheet As String = "MEM_6"
Dim strGUIDColumn As String = "C"
Dim strDeleteColumn As String = "F"
Dim intCheck As Int16 = xlApp.Worksheets("META").Range("B4").Value
Dim I As Int16
xlSheet = xlApp.Worksheets(strSheet)
For I = 2 To intCheck + 1
Dim obj As Guid = xlSheet.Range(strGUIDColumn & I).Value <- returns my casting error
If doc.Objects.Find(obj) Is Nothing Then
xlSheet.Range(strDeleteColumn & I).Value = "X"
End If
Next
End If
thanks!…
Added by David Stasiuk at 8:05am on December 15, 2010
al structure that might resemble the shell structure of radiolaria - www.radiolaria.org - and then I want to manufacture it via 3D printing. Do you think mesh will be up to it?
Also, whether the mesh will work or not, could you please explain me the process on how you arrived to the mesh i.e. why you used all these components that you have used in your definition? As I do not want to directly copy and paste it, I want to understand on why you used all the other components to arrive to the resulting mesh. This will be a huge favour.
Knowing that the form that i have created is very important, do you think starting with the curves was the right thing or do you have any other way in mind to achieve this form with XYZ parameters?
regards,
aB…