hei amir,
check the file. a plane is defined by 3 points, therefore a quad does not have to be planar - Srf4Pt creates planar surfaces (100%) only for three points or 4 coplanar points.
ifferent suns in the same analysis. Perfect!
In (Image2) i made 3 panels for each of the parameters (Month, Day, Hours) each with 5 values. Now i have many suns which also makes sense 100%.
Now my question is, how to make grasshopper process the first value from each panel, then process the second value from each panel. then the third, fourth..etc. So that I have only 5 suns but all on different Dates. I tried with sets but failed. Can anyone help me?
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TB of RAM. I think I'm going to start a GoFundMe campaign to buy one for myself :)
2- The server's cost is about $13 an hour. I get free access to supercomputer through my university and xsede.org because I earned an NSF Honorable mention last March, however, the supercomputers available through both resources are a little complicated for me to use, as opposed to the one available from amazon that has Microsoft server 2012 already installed.
3- I wanted to run 400 annual glare simulations for 400 different views.
4- I tried a to perform annual glare simulation for one view on my Dell XPS that has Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor and 16GB of system memory. The simulation took 2 hours to complete. Radiance parameter ab was set to 6.
5- I wanted to obtain the batch file for each view so I can run them on the server. So I used the fly component to run all 400 simulations and closed the cmd windows, that wasn't bad ( for me at least) because I asked my son to this job for me, he was just glad to help me :)
6- I created one batch file using this cmd command:
dir /s /b *.bat > runall.bat
This created a file with the path to each .bat file. I edited this file in Notepad++ to include the word "start" at the beginning of each line. This was done using the "find and replace" dialogue box.
7- I split my newly created batch file into 3 batch files, each one has about 130 file names and " start" before the file names.
8- installed radiance on my server
9- Ran the first batch file on the server, this started 130 cmd windows performing my simulations, CPU usage was anywhere between 90% to 100% and about 105 GB of RAMs were used.
10. It took about 5 hours to complete all 130 simulations, I expected to run all in 2 hours but can't complain because this would've taken about 260 hours to run on my laptop. After the simulations done I ran the second and then the third batch files ( total of about 15 hours).
11. I got 400 valid dgb files. Couldn't be happier!
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alue to be used for 19 ordered x,y pairs. Every 100 of the 800 lines have the same z-value. My goal is to have a master branch containing branches for each z-value, which contains 100 branches of 19 points (which make use of the z-value).
But I'm stuck at how to output this. I'm reading in the data file line by line, and feeding that into the VB component. My understanding is the script takes each line and executes once, like a for loop. Is there some way that I can have a "global" type of list in the script to contain lists for each z-value? Then I'd simply check what z-value is coming in to determine where to send that data, or something.I can try clarifying things, as I'm sure I'll need to. ; )
Thanks!
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Added by Mark Bank at 10:45pm on September 25, 2012