[Radiance-general] dxf2rad

[Randolph Fritz]

On Oct 23, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Thomas Bleicher wrote:

>
> On 23 Oct 2007, at 13:43, Jack de Valpine wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> One workflow option, much as I dislike suggesting it, is perhaps  
>> to use
>> Sketchup as an intermediate. It looks like Vectorworks will save  
>> out an skp.
>> Sketchup (commercial version) can then save out an obj format  
>> file, which can
>> be converted with obj2rad. I have very limited experience with  
>> Sketchup, but
>> in my few experiences, I have found that the models are very very  
>> hefty.
>
> Sketchup is no so bad. I have written a Ruby script to export  
> Sketchup models
> to Radiance and I'm about to finish and release it soon (I keep  
> saying that
> for 2 weeks now...). Sketchup has some nice features (like n-sided  
> polygons
> and a total lack of complex geometric primitives) that can be  
> translated
> nicely into Radiance. It has not seen much testing (yet) and if Tom  
> needs
> a solution today I can only offer a work in progress.

I'd be interested in that script, too--I have a research project in  
mind.  Do keep us up-to-date.

Randolph