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Angeles, which has 12% of the year made comfortable, and Shiraz, Iran, which also has 12% comfortable (assuming default parameters).
Jerusalem also makes sense to me. There is only a maximum possible 9% of the year that is inside the polygon (you'll see this if you set the timeConstant to a very high number). The default strategyPar makes 6% of these hours comfortable and 3% without cool enough temperatures in the previous hours. This seems reasonable to me.
I could be convinced to change the default time constant to 12 hours (instead of 8) as I know that 12 is the default of climate consultant but that seemed really idealized in my opinion. You'll need really high exposed mass and insulation without much internal heat gain to make conditions stable for more than 8 hours in my opinion.
As for the solarHeatCapacity, I get changes when I drop it down to 10 W/m2 or boost it up to 100 W/m2. It's definitely a parameter that operates on an "order of magnitude" scale and little tweaks to it won't change it too much. You can think of this number as representative of a lot of other physical properties: most notably the depth of the space being passively heated and the thermal mass of that space's materials that participate in heat exchange over the time constant. Climate consultant uses a default assumption of 30 W/m2 but, from my calculations, this is likely assuming a space that has a facade to floor area ratio that is greater than 1. If we say that we need to raise the temperature of 10 cm of an exposed concrete floor for passive heating purposes, and we have a facade-to-floor area ratio of 1:
Required solar flux = ((1 facade-to-floor ratio) x (0.1 m3 of concrete) x (2400 kg/m3 concrete density) x (880 J/kg-K concrete specific heat capacity)) / 3600 seconds/hour
This lands you with a required solar flux of 58 W, which is almost twice the 30 W climate consultant default. While me might say that not all 10 cm of concrete participates over the course of a default 8-hour time constant (most of the action is probably within the first 5 cm), we also have to account for things like transmittance of solar though the window, which, for triple pane, is probably only half of the incident solar. So 50 W seemed to be a more reasonable rule of thumb from my perspective, essentially assuming a facade-to-floor ratio of roughly 1 with 5 cm of concrete participating in an 8 hour heat exchange and a little more than half of solar heat getting through a fully glazed window.
Let me know if that makes sense or if you have any suggestions,
-Chris…
been written about it and I manage to get both of them started with this:
(VB.NET)
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim doc1 As String = "C:\Users\Xavier\Desktop\Test_GH\Test à changer.gh" Dim type As Type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Rhino5x64.Application", True)
'Start Rhino
Dim rhinocomobj As Object = Activator.CreateInstance(type) rhinocomobj.visible = True While rhinocomobj.IsInitialized() = 0 Threading.Thread.Sleep(100) End While
'Start GH and open a file
rhinocomobj.RunScript("_Grasshopper", 0) Dim gh As Object = rhinocomobj.GetPlugInObject("b45a29b1-4343-4035-989e-044e8580d9cf", "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000") gh.OpenDocument(doc1)
From what I understood, this creates a separated COM object, but I don't know how I can manipulate it. For example, how can I get the RhinoDoc, the GH Document and so on?
I tried :
Dim RhinoDocument as RhinoDoc = RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc
but this throws an exception "System.dllNotFoundException" about RhinoCommon.dll, despite RhinoCommon.dll has been set as a Reference of the Project.
I tried as well to build a new class which sits inside GH (DLL as a reference + GHA inside GH library) as per David's suggestion: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/call-gh-from-c-code, and to access properties but I still get the same "DLL Not Found" exception whenever I use GH commands through this tailor made class.
At last, I tried using RhinoScript Interface through commands like :
gh.AssignDataToParameter, but this doesn't change the value, this doesn't throw any exception neither.
I would like to get full access in order to change parameters from a GH document, output geometries and DWG files, and so on.
I don't know if I am being really clear but any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
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o's command 'InterpCrv' manually(white line).
We had one need to make the rhino-InterpCrv curve in grasshopper.
One thing I've tried is using a python script to emulate the rhino-InterpCrv, but didn't get any results,since I didn't know how to define the arrCV1 and arrCVn1 when using the 'AddInterpCurve (knotstyle=1/2)'
knotstyle from the rhino IronPython help
knotstyle
Optional. Number. The knot style to use, and whether the curve should be periodic. If omitted, uniform knots (0) are created.
Value
Description
0
Uniform knots. Parameter spacing between consecutive knots is 1.0.
1
Chord length spacing. Requires dblDegree = 3 with arrCV1 and arrCVn1 specified.
2
Sqrt (chord length). Requires dblDegree = 3 with arrCV1 and arrCVn1 specified.
3
Periodic with uniform spacing.
4
Periodic with chord length spacing. Requires an odd degree value.
5
Periodic with sqrt (chord length) spacing. Requires an odd degree value.
did anyone tried to create a curve like native Rhino from script? or, is there a another GH component that is suitable for smooth curves?
I guess a alternative way will be using rs.Command('InterpCrv'), but wanted to know if there will be a smarter way...…
of Space, 1984) and specified in (Turner A. , “Depthmap: A Program to Perform Visibility Graph Analysis, 2007), intuitively describe the difficulty of getting to other spaces from a certain space. In other words, the higher the entropy value, the more difficult it is to reach other spaces from that space and vice-versa. We compute the spatial entropy of the node as using the point depth set:
(11)
“The term is the maximum depth from vertex and is the frequency of point depth *d* from the vertex” (ibid). Technically, we compute it using the function below, which itself uses some outputs and by-products from previous calculations:
Algorithm 4: Entropy Computation
Given the graph (adjacency lists), Depths as List of List of integer, DepthMap as Dictionary of integer
Initialize Entropies as List(double)
For node as integer in range [0, |V|)
integer How_Many_of_D=0
double S_node=0
For depth as integer in range [1, Depths[node].Max()]
How_Many_of_D=DepthMap.Branch[(node,depth)].Count
double frequency= How_Many_of_D/|V|
S_node = S_node - frequency * Math.Log(frequency, 2)
Next
Entropies [node] = S_node
Next
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y to facilitate the help.
Private Sub RunScript(ByVal x As Boolean, ByVal Ids As List(Of Guid), ByRef A As Object)
If x ThenBB = New BLABLA(ids)A = BB.CurvaElseIf BB IsNot Nothing Then BB.timer.Stop()End If
End Sub
'<Custom additional code>
Dim BB As BlABLA
Public Class BLABLAPublic Curva As curvePrivate Cache As list(Of point3d)Private IDs As list(Of guid)
Sub New(_ids As list(Of guid))IDs = _idsDim points As New list(Of point3d)For Each id As guid In idsDim rh As rhinoobject = rhinodoc.ActiveDoc.Objects.Find(id)Dim pt As Rhino.Geometry.Point = DirectCast(rh.Geometry, rhino.Geometry.Point)If pt is Nothing Then Continue Forpoints.add(pt.Location)Nextcache = pointscurva = curve.CreateInterpolatedCurve(points, 3)timer = New system.Windows.Forms.Timertimer.Interval = 100timer.Start()
End Sub
Public WithEvents timer As system.Windows.Forms.Timer
Private Sub Tick(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles timer.Tick
For i As int32 = 0 To ids.count - 1Dim rh As rhinoobject = rhinodoc.ActiveDoc.Objects.Find(ids(i))Dim pt As Rhino.Geometry.Point = DirectCast(rh.Geometry, rhino.Geometry.Point)If pt Is Nothing Then Continue For
If Not pt.Location.Equals(cache(i)) ThenUpdateOutput()
End Ifcache(i) = pt.LocationNextEnd Sub
Private Sub UpdateOutput()'HERE I NEED UPDATE THE A OUTPUTrhinoapp.WriteLine("Change")End Sub
End Class…
imension(new Plane(new Point3d(5, 3, 0), Vector3d.ZAxis), new Point2d(0, 0), new Point2d(10, 10), new Point2d(5, 5));
myDim.TextHeight = 500;
doc.Objects.AddLinearDimension(myDim);
The bold line seems to be not working because I can't see any changes of text size in the rhino document.
2. I failed to add my DimStyle Object to the LinearDimension object I created above.
Rhino.DocObjects.DimensionStyle myDimStyle = new Rhino.DocObjects.DimensionStyle();
myDimStyle.ArrowLength = 100; myDimStyle.TextGap = 200; myDimStyle.TextHeight = 500;
int dimStyleIndex = doc.DimStyles.Add("myDimStyle", false);
myDim.DimensionStyleIndex = dimStyleIndex;
The bold line seems to be not changing the style of my LinearDimension object.
Could anyone help me with these two failures?
Thanks!
-Jerome
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ot animating a slider 0 _min, max_1000But i would like to animate an Evaluate curve component, wich animates the meshmin 0_max 1, from a reparametize curve
I´m attaching an image
I´m not sure what i´m doing wrong
But it goes something like this
Initial Value: 0, the starting value of the slider that animates the mesh
End Value: 1 the ending value of the mesh animation
Starting Keyframe: 0, i want 3ds max to animate from keyframe 0
Ending Keyframe: I need 3ds max to finish at frame 100, 3 secs.
Slider: is moving t value of an evaluate curve component
If i export it
Centipede overwrites each obj file
I hope you can give me a hand, ip´m sure my values are nor correct or something
cheers
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ifically: I have a 100' vertical plane lofted between curved top and bottom profiles. I contour it every 8' (normal direction is Z, giving me 13 horizontal curves). I use Divide Curve to divide each contour into 10 segments. The "Points" output of Divide Curve now yields 13 branches with 11 items each, corresponding to 13 contours with 11 points from the left end of the curve to its right.
I now want to string "vertical" lines, and connect all the 2nd items in each branch together, all the 3rd items, etc... in order to make a polyline that travels between each 2nd point or 3rd point. i don't want to use Cull Pattern/Nth/Index because the number of subdivisions could change (11 could become 20, etc).
How do I connect the Nth item of each branch in this tree? Moreover, how do I connect all values in a branch with their corresponding values in all other branches?
Thanks for any replies,
Richman Neumann
Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architects
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can toggle these modes from either the Canvas Toolbar, the Remote Control Panel or via shortcuts Ctrl+1,2 or 3
These are pretty self explanatory so I will keep it brief:
No Preview will completely switch off the preview of the Grasshopper Objects in the Rhino Viewports.
Wireframe Preview similar to Disable Meshing will disable any render meshes but keep any curves or Edges visible.
Shaded Preview will shade the preview...
There are two more Icons in this section of the Display Menu:
Selected Only Preview
Preview Settings
Also available on the Canvas Toolbar.
Selected Only Preview is a useful feature for following what your definition is doing at stages along the process without having to switch all previews off and manually turning individual ones back on as you go.
Without Selected Only Preview Toggled
With Selected Only Preview Toggled:
Preview Settings is the area within Grasshopper where you can modify the colours - including transparency - Grasshopper uses to display objects in the Rhino Viewport.
The first thing you should do before altering any settings is to Drag the Default Colours onto the green plus sign to add them to the Presets. This will enable you to restore them easily.
For future reference the default settings are:
Normal = Hue: 0º, Sat: 100, Val: 59, A:100
Selected = Hue: 120º, Sat: 100, Val: 59, A:100
Apart from accounting for taste this feature is particularly useful for anyone that is colour blind[2]:
The way to restore a colour from the preset list is to drag it from the right hand panel to either the Normal or Selected option on the Left
[2] There is a very interesting discourse topic on the McNeel Forums about Red/Green Colour Blindness.
work carried out by Jørgen Holo
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