If anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps i'm missing out on a checkbox, or some obscure option in a load screen, in which case I'd like to know what and where.
This leads me to believe that the issue is certainly somwhere on the part of the import process in Ecotect. Im running Windows Vista with Rhino 5 64bits, GH, Ecotect Analysis 2011 and Geco 1.0.33. Just to be sure, I've even opened back up that same dxf in a new session of Rhino, and there, my polysurfaces are preserved as nice, complete, closed meshes. I've followed, verbatim, a tutorial I found here: īut I'm not getting the results I expect. In my case, the scale was changed from metres to millimetres by scaling the features by 1, Lighting autonomy analysis of a bioclimatic house. Radiance- Daylight Analysis Ecotect plugin, to make advanced lighting simlations. Select DXF format when you export your models. I am trying to do that for solar analysis. So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen Kristen Meinzer (3.5/5) Free.
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I select only important geometries such as structures, doors, floors, ceilings, etc. SatyendraDotnetDeveloper Satyendra Kushwaha. First de-select unnecessary geometries using Visibility Options. I've even tried the "Merge coincident triangles" in Ecotect, but all that does is at best turn what was a 6-sided closed polysurface into 6 individual surfaces. When you want to import your Revit models into Ecotect, use DXF format. The trouble is, when I import my model into Ecotect, my beautiful, wholesome polysurfaces get exploded into thousands of individual triangular portions of mesh. dxf format, with a custom scheme for Ecotect in which I "Write Surfaces as: Meshes" and "Write Meshes as: Meshes". I built a Rhino model specifically for Ecotect, with nice, simple forms which are all completely closed polysurfaces. The more bim you learn the better because it can eventually become integrated with other software. I learned it in school when it was the only game in town. No more remodeling: design in and outside Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, etc Online Modeling Draw basic rooms, place fixtures, and perform quick layouts Collaborative Easily share drawings, analysis and layouts through the web Compliance and Certification Validated engine: for accurate LEED and other reporting Advanced Calculations. I've checked all the other threads for advice, but nothing seems to solve the problem I'm having. Ecotect is used by a lot of lighting designers but it's hard to say what reach it has in the rest of architecture design. This is the Ecotect report that I would send with the analysis grid (more than 75% SDA)ĭescription: Percentage of nodes by contour band.Ībout the ASE, a peak radiation calculation for the entire year from 8 to 18h with a scale from 0 to 1000 Wh (both the SDA and ASE with a 600mm square grid at a 76 mm height) generating an analysis over the grid and a report like the following is acceptable to fulfil the credit?I'm trying to pick up Ecotect, but am hitting a major road block before I can even start using the actual program. 1 Answer Sort by » oldest newest most voted. Thanks for any answers edit retag flag offensive close merge delete. I understand that Radiance is a rather sophisticated tool, but nevertheless I would like to know if we could use it for the described purpose. Is this valid to fulfil the credit requisites? Seems made for it. Ecotect has been retired, so we are looking for an alternative - so far without success. There is an option in Ecotect 2011 called Daylight Autonomy that allows the analyse for the entire year starting at 8 until 18h and with a required lighting level in default mode of 300 lux. I'm trying to answer the V4 BD+C (New Construction and Major Renovation) daylight credit through option 1 (SDA+ ASE).