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
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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.
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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
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th one element which is a list of 10 numbers?
I can flatten it and get (I think) a list of 10 elements (even though when I hover over the output of "Flatten" it says "Tree(T) as tree"). I'm surprised I can flatten at all what would appear to common sense to be a simple list of 10 numbers.
I'm hoping that if I can get this answered it will become obvious why we have trees of lists rather than just lists of lists as you would in most computer languages. That's my real goal - to understand the purpose of adding what seems like an unnecessary complication - trees - to the concept of lists in GH. It seems to me as though a "tree" is just a list of other "trees" until you get to the leaves where you can have "lists" which are identical to trees but can have something other than a tree in them. Whether you can have lists of trees or trees with no lists I'm unclear on. Do the leaves of trees have to be lists? Do lists have to be contained in trees? It would appear from the series example where a tree is produced for no obvious reason to contain the list that this is the case but given that you can flatten it, I guess not - or is the "List" I see in the param viewer just another type of "tree"?
I've found many tutorials that talk about how to manipulate trees and lists and I've managed to get along fairly well with them so far, but nothing seems to explain the reasoning behind the existence of trees and the philosophy for how and when they should be used and when lists should/could be used and precisely what the difference is between them.
Sorry to be long winded but I'm so confused!
Darrell Plank
P.S. I've seen David Rutten's diagram with the colored leaves in Grasshopper Primer 2 and that seems helpful. It would appear that trees can only have lists at their leaves and lists can't have trees although I'm not sure that it comes out and says that directly but at least there are no examples of this shown in his tree diagram. I thought I had it down pretty much so decided to test myself. Apparently I'm as confused as ever:
It certainly appears to me that this tree has two levels - a first level with one limb and a second with 10 limbs - and that I should be able to index it with {0;0} and retrieve a tree with one item in it - the list {0}. The panel data seems to confirm this with indices of {0;0;0}, etc. so I put this path in with quite a bit of confidence that it would work and...bust. The error reads "Path {0;0} does not exist within this tree". Huh? Again, I'm just so confused.…
Added by Darrell Plank at 12:17am on January 20, 2015
- Exception occured during processing of command: Grasshopper Plug-In = Grasshopper Font 'Segoe UI' does not support style 'Regular'. Stack trace: at System.Drawing.Font.CreateNativeFont() at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(FontFamily family, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont) at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont) at System.Drawing.Font..ctor(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet) at Grasshopper.GUI.GH_DocumentEditor.InitializeComponent() in C:\dev\Grasshopper\1.0\root\src\GH_DocumentEditor.Designer.vb:line 329 at Grasshopper.GUI.GH_DocumentEditor..ctor() in C:\dev\Grasshopper\1.0\root\src\GH_DocumentEditor.vb:line 1779 at Grasshopper.Plugin.Commands.ShowGrasshopperEditor(Boolean ShowUponLoad) in C:\dev\Grasshopper\1.0\root\src\GH_GrasshopperCommands.vb:line 22 at Grasshopper.Plugin.Commands.Run_Grasshopper() in C:\dev\Grasshopper\1.0\root\src\GH_GrasshopperCommands.vb:line 94 at GrasshopperPlugin.GrasshopperCommand.RunCommand(IRhinoCommandContext context) at RhDN_TemplateCommand<CRhinoCommand,RMA::Rhino::MRhinoCommand>.RunCommand(RhDN_TemplateCommand<CRhinoCommand\,RMA::Rhino::MRhinoCommand>* , CRhinoCommandContext* context) --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
I am using grasshopper 0.8.0050 and Rhino 4 SR8. I tried uninstalling it, and then installing it again. The same. It is interesting that until yesterday, everything was fine. What could possibly be the cause of a problem?
Thank you.…
ce attractors
3- Relation between mathematics and Form
4- Network surface and Paneling
5- Fabrication methods (slice3d, nesting, ...)
6- Structure and Architecture (Millipede)
7-Energy and form
8- Islamic patterns
9- Physics with kangaroo
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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…