[Radiance-general] Problems with RAD

[Greg Ward]

You can try Rob's suggestion, but I checked the code, and there is no search going on by oconv for input files.  Therefore, I suspect something is wrong with your file permissions.  If you can "cat" the file using "cat mod3.rad" in the same directory, then try running oconv by hand to see if that works -- just copy and paste what rad produces before the error.

This won't solve your problem, but it may help to figure out what's going wrong.

-Greg

> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
> Date: October 18, 2012 9:36:54 AM PDT
> 
> At first blush, that looks like maybe you don't have your current directory (".") in your search path. Assuming those two files are in your current dir, try:
> 
> oconv ./mod3.rad ./summer_sky.rad > summer.oct
> 
> If that works, then you can add "." to your path.
> 
> Rob Guglielmetti
> 
> On 10/18/12 10:22 AM, "Alex Krickx" <akrickx at integralgroup.com<mailto:akrickx at integralgroup.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am having a weird issue with the RAD command. Radiance is running on my machine: I checked my scene before and had no issue with using oconv on my scenes and then using rvu to check out the octree. But once I set set up my .rif file and run "rad summer.rif" I get the following error:
> 
> oconv mod3.rad summer_sky.rad > summer.oct
> oconv: system - cannot open scene file "mod3.rad": No such file or directory
> rad: error generating octree
> summer.oct removed
> 
> If I change the filename in my .rif for mod3.rad I get a different error ("no such file") so it should be pointing to the right file. Any suggestions? I'm running radiance on a Windows7 machine. I'm pretty sure I downloaded the files from NREL's openstudio site. Any suggestions? I've attached my files - they're pretty simple.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex Krickx
> 
> 
> Alex Krickx, LEED AP
> Project Engineer