[Radiance-general] 3 phase method in Windows OS

Thu Jul 31 03:13:33 PDT 2014

Dear Greg,

I have found out the problem. dctimestep was recalled from the Radiance
version contained in DIVA folder (the old version as you said yesterday).
I have solved the problem simply locating the c:/radiance/bin path before
the DIVA's one in the Environment Variables.

Thanks for the helpful advice,
Giuseppe

2014-07-30 20:56 GMT+02:00 Giuseppe De Michele <giudm.87 at gmail.com>:

> Dear Greg,
>
> Really before to start with the 3pm simulation in windows (last monday) I
> installed, I guss, the last release for windows from:
> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/tag/4.2.a.4 .
> Unfortunately I am not in office now but tomorrow I am going to check the
> verision.
> I really hope that this is the problem.... Let's keep out finger crossed!
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe
>
>
>
> 2014-07-30 17:58 GMT+02:00 Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com>:
>
>> This error could only be generated by an older version of dctimestep, as
>> it was removed before June.  I don't know if there is a way to update your
>> binaries to make sure you have the latest, which may (or may not) solve
>> your problem.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Greg
>>
>> *From: *Giuseppe De Michele <giudm.87 at gmail.com>
>>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Radiance-general] 3 phase method in Windows OS
>>
>> *Date: *July 30, 2014 2:59:19 AM PDT
>>
>>
>>  Dear expert,
>>
>> I am here again. Unfortunately I missed the last step to complete the
>> simulation with the 3pm.
>>
>> dctimestep gives back an error message:
>>   *system - header read error: no such file or directory.*
>>
>> I report the steps:
>>
>> *vmx*
>>
>> oconv materials/materiali.rad scene/stanza.rad objects/window_glow.rad >
>> temp/model_vmx.oct
>>
>> rcontrib -n 4 -f klems_int.cal -b kbinS -bn Nkbins -m window_glow -I+ -ab
>> 8 -ad 10000 -as 2048 -ar 1024 -lw 1e-8 -av 0 0 0 temp/model_vmx.oct <
>> data/cells.pts > data/cells.vmx
>>
>> *BSDF*
>>  generated with WINDOW 7.2
>>
>> *dmx*
>>
>> oconv materials/materiali.rad scene/stanza.rad scene/ground.rad
>> scene/sky_white1.rad > temp/model_dmx.oct
>>
>> genklemsamp.pl -c 1000 -vd 0 -1 0 objects/window_glow.rad | rcontrib -n
>> 4 -c 1000 -e MF:4 -f reinhart.cal -b rbin -bn Nrbins -m sky_glow -faa
>> temp/model_dmx.oct > data/south.dmx
>>
>> *s + dctimestep*  (broken step)
>>
>> gensky 6 21 15.0 -s -a 44.42 -o -8.85 -m -15.0 | genskyvec -m 4 -c 1 1 1
>> > temp\skysun_4.skv
>>
>> dctimestep data\cells.vmx data\bsdf\clearglass.xml data\south.dmx
>> temp\skysun_4.skv | rcalc -e "$1=179*($1*0.265+$2*0.670+$3*0.0065)" >
>> data\ill_cg.dat
>>
>> The same commands work very well in UNIX environment.
>> I really don't know where put my hands. Any advice will be appreciate.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Giuseppe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-30 9:38 GMT+02:00 Giuseppe De Michele <giudm.87 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Dear Rob and Andy,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the help. The interpreter for Pert is what I need.
>>>
>>> Although with my colleague we have found an other problem, the same find
>>> in this discussion:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.radiance-online.org/pipermail/radiance-general/2013-July/009660.html
>>>
>>>
>>> and after replacing the wrong string with the right one ,finally, all
>>> seems works well.
>>> Also in couple with rcontrib.
>>>
>>> So thank again expert,
>>> Giuseppe
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-07-28 18:08 GMT+02:00 Guglielmetti, Robert <
>>> Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>:
>>>
>>> I've only experience with Windows XP and Windows 7, but this should all
>>>> work fine if you have Perl installed properly. Get your correct version of
>>>> Perl from here:
>>>> http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads
>>>> …or here:
>>>> http://strawberryperl.com/
>>>> …and make sure to add the Perl executable directory to your PATH (the
>>>> installers will optionally do this for you).
>>>>
>>>> You also need to ensure your Radiance installation is correct, meaning
>>>> that the Radiance bin directory is in your PATH, and the Radiance lib
>>>> directory is in an environment variable called "RAYPATH".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/28/14, 9:57 AM, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com<mailto:
>>>> gregoryjward at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This error must be generated by Perl itself, as it isn't one produced
>>>> by the genklemsamp.pl script.  I don't know enough about Perl and
>>>> Windows to say more, but perhaps someone else does.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -Greg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Giuseppe De Michele <giudm.87 at gmail.com<mailto:giudm.87 at gmail.com
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>>> Subject: [Radiance-general] 3 phase method in Windows OS
>>>>
>>>> Date: July 28, 2014 7:39:25 AM PDT
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear expert,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to run the Three Phase Method in Windows 8 but at the
>>>> moment of the DMX generation I have found out a problem with genklemsamp.
>>>>
>>>> Searching in the web I have understood the problem regards something
>>>> about some incompatibility of the Pearl language with Windows OS. I have
>>>> also find a ZIP archives that contains Radiance Perl scripts that were
>>>> packaged into Windows executable files in the Jolaxa site.
>>>>
>>>> Although I have followed the instruction (rather easy since I have only
>>>> to paste the exe file in the bin directory) something still doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> The command crash even if I run a simple case as:
>>>>
>>>>  genklemsamp -c 10 - vd 0 -1 0 > sample.dat
>>>>
>>>> with the waring : "genklemsamp has stopped working".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestion?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Giuseppe
>>>>
>>>
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