[Radiance-general] Re: how i can work with archicad and radiance ?

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:05:26 -0700

This discussion belongs in radiance-general, not radiance-dev, which is 
for development issues....

-Greg

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rob Guglielmetti <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Apr 16, 2003  7:08:45  AM US/Pacific
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-dev] how i can work with archicad and radiance ?
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Carsten Bauer wrote:
>>>   hi,   I would like to work with archicad and radiance but i 
>>> haven't any
>>> idia if anybody know you can contacte me and we work to guether .    
>>>                                                                     
>>> Tou
>> Yeah, great idea ! But sorry, I have no idea either. But if one day 
>> an idea explodes in my mind, I will contact you !
>
> I'm not sure the level of integration you are seeking Tou, but if all 
> you need is to get an Archicad model into Radiance for 
> rendering/analysis, I'd assume you could save your model as a DXF file 
> and use dxf2rad to convert it into a Radiance scene description.  If 
> you're looking to preserve materials or uv mappings, I'm pretty sure 
> there are other methods that will preserve at least some of that, but 
> that's out of my depth. HTH.
>
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>
>      Rob Guglielmetti