[Radiance-general] How to parse room dimensions from .rad model ?

[Christopher Rush]

Crossing over to the general list...

If you can create an octree from your model, try the command and option getinfo -d

That will return the dimensional information for your full scene though, so if there are objects included outside of your area of interest, it becomes more tricky.


From: Vaib [mailto:vaibhavjain.co at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 12:12 PM
To: radiance-dev
Subject: [Radiance-dev] How to parse room dimensions from .rad model ?

Hello everyone,

It is a kind of weird question but thought to hear your views.

Let's say, someone gave me a .rad file which is a model of a rectangle room. This model has many polygons for surfaces such as walls, windows, luminaire, furniture etc.

How shall I develop a method/function that can parse this .rad file and return me back the room dimensions. I have no additional information, like walls' name variable etc.

I want to make a simple java method for that. I am not using any CAD API.

Is it possible? Please don't bash me for my stupid question.. :P

Best regards,
Vaib


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