[Radiance-general] Problems with impostor surface creation

[Randolph M. Fritz]

Also, what is the current drive and what directory is "cmd" in?  What 
drive letter shows in the prompt?  What do you see if you type "cd" at 
the command line and hit return?

Randolph

On 2011-05-19 14:09:08 -0700, Chien Si Harriman said:

> Hi all-
> 
> Thanks for all your help with the problem I'm having modeling glare from
> light fixtures.  I have a very simple problem that I can't seem to
> solve, as I'm trying to create the impostor surface.  I'm following the
> example given in Chapter 5 of the Radiance Bible.  Pg 319 describes the
> use of ies2rad.  I cannot get ies2rad to work!  I've tried everything I
> can think of...I've tried putting my IES file in my installation folder,
> I've tried copying ies2rad into a local temporary file and then copied
> my IES files into the same directory, and running ies2rad.  Everytime, I
> get an error
> 
> I'm running windows 7.  At the command prompt, I am typing:
> 
> ies2rad -t white -i .56419 LLM154T5.ies
> 
> the program always responds:
> <null> No such file or directory
> 
> I believe ies2rad is working.  If I type in ies2rad I get the following
> response:
> ies2rad: missing output file specification
> 
> 
> I know this is a basic question, but new to me.  Any help would be
> appreciated!


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Randolph M. Fritz • RFritz at lbl.gov
Environmental Energy Technologies Division • Lawrence Berkeley Labs